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From www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0510dollarstoreraid-ON.html 25 arrested in dollar-store ID theft ring … A three-month investigation of the Governor’s Fraudulent ID Task Force, “Operation Dollar Store” targeted 14 dollar-stores across the Valley suspected of selling cell phones activated with false identities to people who claimed they had no legal identification. Authorities believe some of the phones,… were used [...]

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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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From http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/5/nation/14153618&sec=nation SEGAMAT: Malaysians will soon get to have personalised registration number plates for their vehicles, by paying an extra fee. “However, there are still some finer details which we need to look into before Malaysians can apply to have their own personalised registration number plates,” Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said here. [...]

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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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I just got server activity logs for the last couple of weeks for this website and, I’ve got to say, you are an impressive bunch. Because I am a statistics geek, I thought I’d share some: Tuesday is the most popular day. What’s up with that? 8AM is the busiest hour of the day – [...]

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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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Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0, the first formal release of their next-generation web browser. I downloaded it Friday to use on my PC at work and downloaded the Mac version at home over the weekend. I really like it. It combines some of the best features of Safari with the stability and rendering accuracy of [...]

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