I hope Obama does a good job. I voted for him, but I wasn't exactly pleased with my options for this election (I almost voted for Bob Barr). He's a fine speaker, but I'm not in favor of his policies of socialized healthcare and wealth redistribution. He does seem to resonate with a lot of people and maybe he will help unify our somewhat disjointed ( Read more... )

Thanks to Greg, I now have a new source for music information ( Read more... )

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For over a year, I have been planning to upgrade my television. My Sony Wega CRT has gotten me through some of the awkward early years of high-def. We've seen outrageously priced plasma sets, blurry LCDs, sub-par picture at off-axis viewing angles, poor blackness levels, DVI vs HDMI, etc. Fortunately, everyone's a bit more organized these days and ( Read more... )

So if you updated your Wii this last week (v3.4), you will now be unable to install homebrew. The paradox of this update is that if you install it, your homebrew experience will be crippled (can't install WADs, but HBC still works mostly), while if you don't install it, the Wii Shop Channel won't work, and your homebrew will be fine. Hopefully, ( Read more... )

If ever there was a nostalgia cash-in that I would pounce on, this is it:


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I couldn't have picked a better time to finish Earthbound because the folks over at Starmen.net (http://mother3.fobby.net/) just finished an unofficial English translation of Mother 3 (Earthbound 2 by American canon). I installed the patch and have played through the opening sequences, and so ( Read more... )

I like the South. It's not too cold. It's pretty. And there are some pretty interesting people and some pretty interesting buildings. Some of the people are pretty friendly too. But I don't get out much. I don't travel as much as I'd like to and I don't take full advantage of all the interesting places that are a car ride away. Places like Atlanta ( Read more... )

Flagged for later reading:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/beck.crisis/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95522455