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Gray Goo Imminent?
Scientists have developed a replicating synthetic organism. How wonderful for us! These men and women of science have used a computer to simulate a new life and then built it. Surely the benefit to mankind, through creating water, food, and more products for us to...
Disassembling the HP TX2000z
My TX2000z succumbed to the ever popular overheating issue a few weeks ago. The intention, with this post, is to provide a step by step guide to pulling out your motherboard. I have seen site after site, video after video talking about how to fix the motherboard, but...
Dying In-Game
I have thought about this a few times, and continue to dwell on it when thinking about what makes a good game. I have played many games from many genres and only a few make me think any real thought went into death. "In a culture where death is a grim finality and...
Piracy Drives the Console
I wish I could say, I had nothing to do with this change in the way we play, but I hold no developer responsible for migrating their business model. In fact, I prefer a stable playing environment where there are no worries about whether my system can handle the latest...
CritiqueCircle.com
I recently joined a site for writers and readers called CritiqueCircle . It helps to get writers stories reviewed by other writers and readers. It works on a payment scale of critiques instead of $. As you critique other stories, you get credits; as you submit...
Write or Die
I was turned on to a site that needles a writer into writing without the shackles of thought. Write or Die. I decided to give it a try and this is the first thing that came to me. I did some spelling corrections, but other than that, in ten minutes, this seeped out of...
Sick – The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Movie Review: Sick is a love story, a hate story, a life story, a death story, a pain story, a pleasure story. It is a documentary about Bob Flanagan, a Sado Masochist with a flair for the performing arts, who is stricken with cystic fibrosis and should already be...
AntiChrist
Movie Review: I have to say, the name drew me in, but what I got on the inside was nothing short of heavenly. AntiChrist, on the surface, was about a couple dealing with the loss of a small child as well as some long standing relationship issues. Through the basic...