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[ Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print] It’s an awful summer for movies so far, the kind of movie season that has millions of Americans looking forward eagerly to July, when they will be able to drive past their cinema and visit a book store to get the newest Harry Potter novel. It’s telling that the big movie event of the year was Star Wars version 3.2.4, in which we get to see the backstory to an outdated movie series in which evil is easy for everyone to identify because it snickers and calls itself “The Dark Side”.
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[World O'Crap] World O'Crap: Threepio is still there, doing chores and chirping away in his twee accent, cementing his place as the Galaxys most effeminate farm implement. Yes, Lucas is still trying to insist that Anakin really did build C3PO, which begs the question why his mother the slave and her husband the poor dirt farmer didn't dismantle the protocol droid and use it for tractor parts years ago.
[Blog.sodalug.com] Dougs Movie Reviews - One vicious slacker. One fierce cop. 10000 ...: "I've long been in favor of legalizing all drugs," he says, but not because of the standard libertarian arguments for unrestricted personal freedom. "Look at the factual consequences: The harm done and the corruption created by these laws...the costs are one of the lesser evils." He takes a quick shot at education as well:
[Unclebear.com] Ursinoid: The Roleplaying Blog of Berin Kinsman: You'd have to nail me to a tree to get me to read Robert Jordan, David Eddings, or anything other than Tolkien1 or Norse Myths that has elves or other pseudo-faerie races in it2. I don't like high magic; I like stories about people who whoop ass all over evil sorcerers and do so with a combination of skill, cunning, and dumb luck. For those who still don't grok, it's like digging Batman better than other superheroes because he's a normal guy and uses his wits, and knowing that he can whoop Superman's ass even though Supes has all the kewl powerz.
[Blogs.msdn.com] Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11 :: In an attempt at our ongoing efforts to confuse everyone coming to MSDN balance the knowledge and workload at MSDN, we have shuffled a few of the Developer Centers around. While I will still be working on the ASP.NET Developer Center, I am reliquishing my duties on the Visual Studio Developer Center. The good news for all of you is that this means that Brian Johnson, one of the authors of "Inside Visual Studio" will be moving in.
[Mindsay.com] annoying: blah, blah, blah... usual boring evil stupid lame retarded day ... project the outsiders dealie.. and then watched a whole 5 min. of the movie, big whoop. ...
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