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Well it’s flu season again and time for the vulnerable in society which are the young and old to consider having their annual flu shot. Did you know over 90% of people who die from flu each year are aged under 65! With 90% of those dieing from flu being young and the flu shot [...]

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Half Life 2 vs FarCry – Final Round… or is it? Ok, I managed to finish Half Life 2 a few days ago and had time to digest the whole experience, now let’s do final comparison between these 2 games. In the first round, FarCry totally dominated Half Life 2 on the graphical enhanced features [...]

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I’m a bit of an NPR junkie. I also love food. So when NPR does a story about food – well, you can imagine. In any case, Fresh Air interviewed Ruth Reichl, editor of Gourmet Magazine and the excellent Tender at the Bone. She was also the former restaurant critic for the New York Times. [...]

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Pepsi Holiday Spice hits stores today, but we found some in Pilsen over the weekend. We had no idea what it was when we found it, but described as “spiced cola,” it was just weird enough that we had to buy it. It’s reddish, first of all, which makes it a little odd. And it [...]

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Some people were thrilled with the results of last week’s election and others were horrified. I can sympathize with both points of view and have friends of both political persuasions. So I was fascinated by the election. I think it is amazing and more than a little scary that our country is so polarized right [...]

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Well, my college begins fall semester classes today. First up: Creative Writing for Game Design. Then later tonight I have Graphics File Format and Data Compression Techniques. Well, the writing class is going to be odd as hell, it’s with an English teacher who has some wonky ideas And as for the graphics file format [...]

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Britney has written to her fans. You simply must read her epistle. I won’t spoil it by giving away too much, but know that you can look forward to these gems: The phrase “the reason being is so” Her mom is “running behind my sister like crazy” (what the hell does that even mean???) She’s [...]

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There’s a chill in the air and almost all the leaves have dropped off of the tree outside the door to my apartment building. Winter is arriving. And with the change in season, it’s time for a change in cocktail. Last winter was all about bourbon, but while bourbon should retain a place in your [...]

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Here we are toward the end of 2004, and what a gamers power year it has been with huge gaming releases. It will be a few years before we see the big game releases so close together like we’ve seen in the past several months. But, is this a good thing for gamers? Would gamers [...]

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This is a word-for-word transcript of a voicemail message I received from my friend Simon. I swear to God I am not making this up. I had this epiphany, like, you know we could write a theme song for you. And I’m thinking about it like, ya know sorta a la Shaft. Ya know, the [...]

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