10 days ago
deusx : Sources: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Canceled - E! Online - Damn. The crappy new Knight Rider continues on, yet shows like Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls get cancelled. ""I think the writers’ strike did it," Chenoweth (Daisies' Olive Snook) tells us tonight of the cancellation. "I thi
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deusx : Nebraska fears rush to drop off kids before haven law change - CNN.com - "All but six have been older than 10, according to a Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services analysis. The safe haven law was meant to protect infants, but there is no age limit under the current law. Five of the abandoned children were brou
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2 month ago
deusx : The scariest thing about Sarah Palin isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America | The Smirking Chimp - "The great insight of the Palin VP choice is that huge chunks of American voters no longer even demand that their candidates actually have policy positions; they simply consume them as media entertainment, rooting for or against them according to the
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3 month ago
deusx : Star Trek: The Experience closing down - CNN.com - "After a decade at the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is going where no Las Vegas Strip attraction wants to go. With a decommissioning ceremony -- as befits any great vessel -- the exhibit and its replica of the starship Enterprise are clo
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3 month ago
Eric Meyer : Movie Voice Guy Don LaFontaine Has Died - In a world without Don LaFontaine, whose voice will be raised in his honor? [via Kris] [via]
deusx : Movie Voice Guy Don LaFontaine Has Died « FirstShowing.net - "The legendary movie voice guy known as Don LaFontaine passed away on Monday at the age of 68. Entertainment Tonight is reporting that LaFontaine passed away of complications from Pneumothorax, a condition that is the result of a collapsed lung. Why
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5 month ago
deusx : Deathwatch: Flagship Studios' bankruptcy a cautionary tale for startups - "The company, founded by CEO Bill Roper, formerly of the Starcraft team at Blizzard North, leveraged the intellectual property rights for its two games, Hellgate: London and Mythos, as collateral in order to secure loans to keep the company afloat.&q
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6 month ago
deusx : The Internet dies a little bit | MetaFilter - "NO ONE ON THE INTERNET CAN EVER USE THAT NIEMÖLLER BIT EVER AGAIN. IT'S PLAYED. IT'S THROUGH. FUCKING STOP IT, OR I'LL MOTHERFUCKING COME FOR YOU."
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6 month ago
deusx : Sharper Image in final throes, stores being liquidated, then shuttered - Engadget - "Not that anyone really expected Sharper Image to make a comeback after getting put up for sale, but Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers Retail Partners (the same peeps who gutted CompUSA) are putting the lame brand out of its misery, liquid
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6 month ago
Greg Storey : Universal Studios is on fire. - King Kong has been damaged but the film vaults remain intact. This has happened before.
deusx : Huge fire burns at Universal Studios - Life- msnbc.com - "Officials say the iconic courthouse square from "Back to the Future," has been destroyed, and the famous clocktower that enabled star Michael J. Fox's character to time travel has been damaged. "
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nelson : "inbred swamp thing" - Rolling Stone profiles Britney Spears
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10 month ago
nelson : What I killed today - A veterinarian's record of euthanasias
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13 month ago
nelson : Space Giraffe despair - brilliant game designer is pissed off that his games don't sell as well as crappy games
deusx : stinkygoat: jesus fucking christ - "not seeing a lot of reason to continue even trying to make games ... when a remake of Frogger ... can outsell Space Giraffe that we put so much love and effort into, by more than ten to one, in one week."
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14 month ago
deusx : Bookmobiles' final chapter? - The Boston Globe - "A few libraries, drivers refuse to give up on relic of days gone by"
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15 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Lottery Winner Loses $114 Million In Four Years - Lottery Winner Loses $114 Million In Four Years: yikes!
nelson : Losing $114M - misfortune of a lottery winner
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17 month ago
cobra libre : Weekly World News Suspending Publication [via] #
deusx : Weekly World News Shutting Down (SFScope) - Say it ain't so!
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18 month ago
deusx : The Sun Online - TV: Doctor Who to get axe in 2008 - "Boss Russell T. Davies has decided to axe the BBC1 sci-fi drama and concentrate on other projects."
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19 month ago
deusx : White-On-White Violence Claims Life Of Accounts Receivable Supervisor | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "Herbert F. Kornfeld, 34, was an alleged accounting gang leader considered by law enforcement to be a key player in a series of ongoing office worker turf wars."
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19 month ago
Andy Baio : Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella - unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here
deusx : stereogum: Coachella: Rage Fans Didn't Like Crowded House - "would any of these kids respond, even in passing recognition of the tune? And they responded alright. With a water bottle straight to Neil Finn's head!"
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20 month ago
deusx : LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US :: News :: thetyee.ca - "Now I am being seen as one of those drug users, perhaps an addict, perhaps a dealer, one can't be sure. In the matter of a second, I became powerless, whatever I said wasn't going to be taken seriously. I was labeled, sorted and disposed of. Dismiss
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20 month ago
deusx : Real Estate Blog - The Death of Retail - "Wizzywig, a downtown Ann Arbor store specializing in Japanese pop-culture collectables is moving. They are relocating their store front to the industrial park by the Ann Arbor Airport where there warehouse is."
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22 month ago
deusx : bits bytes pixels & sprites ? Archives ? R.I.P. Amplitude Online, you’ll be missed - "I just caught wind of the fact that Amplitude’s online servers are going to be taken off-line next Monday (the 26th)"
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22 month ago
jimray : Fake Steve calls it quits - Namaste, good buddy
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23 month ago
jimray : Death penalty world map - See, we have more in common with the third world than we know. Go America!
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deusx : Teacher Suspended After Getting Cheeky With a Painting - washingtonpost.com - "Common sense indicates that this is the sort of thing that students giggle about for a few days, and it disappears. But the school has upped the ante by suspending him."
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Sony shuts down Lik-Sang - the most popular distributor of grey market and import gaming wares
deusx : Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits - This makes me sad: "Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony"
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