Jan 21 2009

8 Stupid Gun Mistakes Most Movies (and every Writer) Makes

I made a partial list below (I’m sure Duane Thomas can add to it) of dumb things I see in novels and comics and movies in the area of firearms. A few of these (for dramatic license) I make myself. But they’re still dumb.

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Jan 21 2009

Rent 15 Movies That Influenced Metal Gear Solid

That’s Hideo Kojima. He makes Metal Gear Solid games and really likes movies — that last part is hard to believe, we know.

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Jan 21 2009

Lego Obama Presidential Inauguration Brings Hope to Bricks

There’s also hope and change in the land of the brick: Behold the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama in Lego bricks, complete with every single character that will be at the Capitol, including Lego Oprah.

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Jan 21 2009

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Jan 21 2009

New York Times gets 250 Mil. loan from Mexican billionaire

Times Co. said Monday that it had reached an agreement for 0 million in financing from companies controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu to help the newspaper publisher meet debt payments as credit markets dry up and the newspaper industry confronts plummeting ad revenue.

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Jan 21 2009

9 Ways Twitter Can Help in the Real World

how can a social network that depends on millions of 140 character statements help someone in the real world?Well, the possibilities are endless. From having someone local bring you a tank of gas when you’ve run out, to shacking up with a friend on a conference excursion, here’s a list of ways how Twitter can help.

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Jan 21 2009

Analysts: iPhone Outselling Android Nearly 6-to-1

While Apple may not have had the strongest of holiday sales for Macs and iPods, estimates for sales of iPhone 3G versus T-Mobile’s G1 may show Apple’s device having outsold one of its closest competitors by a ratio of six to one in the US alone.

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Jan 21 2009

Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse due to warming

A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent.

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Jan 21 2009

Bush won’t pardon Scooter Libby

In a move that has keenly disappointed some of his strongest conservative allies, President Bush has decided not to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, for his 2007 conviction in the CIA leak case, two White House officials said Monday.

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Jan 21 2009

Economy Profits From File-Sharing, Report Concludes

Commissioned by the Dutch government, a recently published report concludes that file-sharing has a positive effect on the economy, both on the long and short term. A massive 30% of the Dutch population uses file-sharing software to download music, games, movies and other forms of entertainment, which is now considered to be a ‘good thing’.

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