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I seem to have chosen the wrong side on the high-def DVD conflict. It was bad-enough when more and more major studios announced they would only produce hi-def content in Blu Ray format, now Netflix announced they will only carry Blu Ray and will phase out their HD DVD stock. Guess which format I (foolishly) chose?

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I suppose it's this meme or the usual Valentine's stuff like
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Steven Brust has written and released a Firefly-themed e-book under a Creative Commons license.

For the "Peggy" LED pegboard display kit being sold by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:

This is an easy way to drive a lot of LEDs-- up to 625-- in a big matrix. You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, or freak the holy bejesus out of Boston. Your call.




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I'm still deciding if I prefer this version to the Kaiser Chiefs in terms of musicality, but the video kicks ass. If only Lily Allen actually had that much junk in the trunk IRL:

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(Hat tip to bonniegrrl for the video, as the versions I found searching YouTube had embedding disabled...)

Welcome to the Afghanistan we've helped create:

Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Quoting:

A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan - not in Taliban times ( Read more... )

Teeth is a tender little indie film about a teen-age girl's blossoming into womanhood. Except that something goes terribly wrong.

Actually, Teeth is a low-budget horror flick in which the only tenderness is the tenderizing that gets brought upon the would-be rapists and other no-good'ers. Jess Weixler plays Dawn, a high school virgin who's a popular ( Read more... )

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