- MoviesThis area of the site has to do with movies, be it my reviews of them or my primary hobby of film scores, etc. In here you will find things like: 2007 Films This is list of the 2007 films I’ve seen theatrically, listed in order of preference with my score out of 10 for each film in parenthesis and a link to the full review. 2007 Film Scores Here we have the films I’ve seen for 2007 broken down into my order of favorite music score. 2007 Viewing Log This is a log of my theatrical movie going for 2007. 2006 Films This is list of the 2006 films I saw theatrically, listed in order of preference with my score out of 10 for each film in parenthesis and a link to the full review. 2006 Film Scores Here we have the films I’ve seen for 2006 broken down into my order of favorite music score. 2006 Retrospective This is a listing by category of my favorite films. It’s basically my version of the Oscars.
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The Dilbert Blog
The Dilbert Blog – So the bottom line is that America is the father, the Islamic countries in the Middle East are the mother, and Israel is the offspring conceived by rape. Some of Scott Adams’ best material happens when it doesn’t have to go …
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Ant Jaws Break Speed Record, Propel Insects Into Air
UC Berkeley News – A species of ant native to Central and South America is entering the annals of extreme animal movement, boasting jaws arguably more impressive than such noteworthy contenders as the great white shark and the spotted hyena. I can’t believe what I’m …
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Police Crack Down On Striptease Funerals…
Reuters.com – Striptease send-offs at funerals may become a thing of the past in east China after five people were arrested for organizing the intimate farewells, state media reported on Wednesday. Well then, let my wishes be known thusly – to have a bunch of …
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Voyager 1 – The First Man-Made Object To Go 100 AU’s
JPL – Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades ago, will be …
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RIAA Wants To Depose Dead Defendant’s Children
Recording Industry vs The People – Just when we think we’ve heard it all…. In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow …
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Spanish Flu
Spanish Flu – The Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as La Grippe Espagnole, La Pesadilla, or the 1918 flu, was a pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly strain of the subtype H1N1 of the species Influenza A virus (which apparently killed via cytokine …
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Monopoly Takes A Chance On Plastic
Sky News – Monopoly board game players can now pay for properties with debit cards. Game makers Parker have phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version. Players will instead use a Visa mock debit card to keep track of how much they …
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2nd Anniversary Of Jerry Goldsmith’s Passing
Jerry Goldsmith Online – Today is a somber day for us Jerry Goldsmith fanatics, what with it being 2 years since he died on July 21, 2004. It’s still hard to get used to the world of film scores without Jerry. I’ve been working at …
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Microsoft Makes Virtual PC Freeware
BetaNews – Microsoft has released an update to Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1, and is now making the virtualization software available free of charge to all users. The company also promised to freely release Virtual PC 2007 next year, bringing support for Windows Vista. …
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Office Max Discontinues Use Of Mail-in Rebates
Rebate Roulette – After a year of working with suppliers to implement the change, the office products retailer decided to do away with mail-in rebates in favor of in-store discounts. Woo hoo! ‘Bout time! Now, more of you retailers need to make this move. The …