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Art of the Title documents the best title sequences in movies.

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The recent top 50 television shows-meme originated from a related article in Empire.

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Just got to love wikipedia for the breadth of the material - the recent “featured articles” have included such topics as Chrono Trigger (video game), Lisa de Giocondo (Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous subject) and the tomb of an antipope.
Can’t beat the feeling of getting accidentally educated.
EDIT 17.4.2008: Fixed the […]

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This week’s Macroday challenge instructs the participants to go round.
My take on the subject is a selection of coins, definitely in the realm of the round.

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The mid-point of the top 50. Thus far the pickings have been rather meager, let’s see what happens with the third set…

Students for a Free Tibet
Worthy cause. Haven’t read.
Jezebel
Jezebel appears to be by women, for women. I’ll manage to do without.
Gigazine
In Japanese. Might be interesting, but in […]

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This week’s photo friday challenge is all about fragile.
My take is one of the most fragile environments of the world - a coral reef. Threatened by pollution, global warming and other acts of man, these largest animal collections will have a hard time making it through the next decades.
The image […]

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According to NME, Axl Rose has delivered the long-awaited Chinese Democracy album to Geffen.
I believe this when the record actually is available.

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Fantasy Flight Games has posted the first release update since their acquisition of the roleplaying-related Warhammer IP from Games Workshop.
Both games have significant entries in the immediate future. Two Thrones is the first adventure for the fantasy game in ages. And the duo of Purge the Unclean and Inquisitor’s Handbook will […]

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I’m not a big fan of cufflinks, but these steampunk-inspired buttons might be just the thing to start wearing proper shirts more often.
Sadly, these babies are currently sold out at Etsy, but the artist has promised that more are to come.

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Mattel’s entry to combat the 8-bilion-pound gorilla known as Scrabulous has not been well-received.
In addition to alleged bugs and other issues, the application is marred by the inability of americans to play. Due to distribution agreements, Mattel’s application cannot be played by US citizens, and that clearly cuts down the potential players […]

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To celebrate the arrival of the new television at the HQ, here’s my take on the show-meme making rounds in the finnish blogosphere

Quantum Leap (I think I’ve seen a whole episode. Once.)
Prison Break
Veronica Mars (Seen the first season, second pending in the backlog.)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sex & The City
Farscape (Embarrassingly enough, seen only […]

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The details of the eagerly-awaited European release of the Rock Band game have been published. That is, the Xbox 360 release alone, as the other consoles will follow “later in the summer”.
The date is as close to optimal as they get - the 23. of May being my birthday also.
But the price […]

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This week’s photo thursday challenge is to take the name of a novel, and extrapolate from that. Out of the three names given, I chose Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (which has a far more agreeable name when translated).
The image is of a plane approaching Boston’s Logan airport. An airport that […]

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Took a while before managed to carve out the second part of this epic five-post analysis of the top 50 blogs

DRUDGE REPORT

Yeah, I’ve browsed this a couple of times. Ugly layout, dirt-digging journalism. I can so give this one a miss. Even though they probably hit jackpot annually with some big story, […]

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I never thought buying a television would be this hard.
Moderately expensive, yes. Hard, no.
Right now I’m struggling between Sony (W3000) and Toshiba (ZF355D), both of which have definite advantages and disadvantages. Or perceived advantages and disadvantages, as everything comes down to taste.
Only one thing is clear, the […]

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Uwe Boll, one of the worst movie directors ever, has promised that he’ll quit if one million people request that.
The petition has 18K signatures, coming up with the rest is one of the most important goals for the year.

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My first participation in the Moody Monday photography challenge concerns itself with shadowy.
Not in the traditional sense of the word (abounding with shadow), but just having a dramatically elongated set of shadows on a sunny autumn morning.

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Hakkapeliitat is not a candidate for a triple play this year - the basketball team failed to make it through the semifinals, and is now bound to fight for the third spot.
I don’t blame any single player for the loss, the margin was comfortably wide (7-2) - but losing Shawn Marion four weeks […]

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The first Stanley Cup appearance by Haagan Hakkapeliitat ended in a loss.
6-4 isn’t too bad, considering that Daniel Alfredsson was hurt midway in the two week final, and Marty Turco put up a pretty decent Hoover imitation a couple of times. Apart from the save percentage, the margins in all categories were […]

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Seems that the Imperial Ministry of Truth has done its best to keep the incriminating facts from being published. But the first reports are now trickling through the underground: the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job.
Read debunking of the “magic missile”-theory!
See the Emperor remain calm, reading […]

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