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I've kind of abandoned my old book-review LJ for a while, but as a part of some resolutions for New Year's, I thought I should pick up a similar sort of effort. So I've set one up on WordPress ( Read more... )

An interesting article about the not-quite-noble history of Toronto mayors: "as precious a set of scoundrels as ever were collected together."

...Mayor John Powell (1838) committed a murder just a month before taking office. He shot rebel Captain John Anderson in cold blood with a single well- aimed bullet to the head, making him even more popular ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting thing I learned today - the origin of Santa Claus carrying around a bag of gifts comes from the depictions of Saint Nicholas of Myra, and a story about how he had heard of a poor family whose father was going to sell his three daughters into prostitution, and so under the cover of darkness the bishop Nicholas wrapped three ( Read more... )

Wow, I can't believe the frustrating problem I have been endlessly having with jerky Flash video could be solved so simply...stupid Firefox: http://lifehacker.com/5342636/how-to-fix-annoying-youtube-jumpiness-in-firefox

I saw a couple of interesting movies recently about 80's videogaming.

The first was the more popular documentary The King of Kong, about 2 people vying for the Donkey Kong world record (who even knew there were world records for video games? lol). After you read up on the movie after watching it, you realize that facts were manipulated to an ( Read more... )

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I was reading this piece on what X-Files episodes would be good for Halloween, and I thought it would be fun to make my own list of 10 good Halloween appropriate episodes. These aren't necessarily the best (some of those wouldn't fit the bill, such as the character-study Never Again, or the wackier ones), and they're not necessarily the most ( Read more... )