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29 Dec 2006Last week of the year is always a festive season, whether it’s the joys of children opening presents, having fun at the parties or spending New Year’s Eve with your loved ones, but justice doesn’t take holiday.
Today, on December 29th 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged for deaths of 148 Shiites in 1982: of course we [...]
Some of you may already know that I’m very partial to tapas and I tend to try different restaurants in different cities (last time it was Dallas’ Hola restaurant which was pretty good). Recently I’ve been to Tonic in Overland Park (which is a suburb of Kansas City in Kansas) which offered surprisingly good selection [...]
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22 Dec 2006This isn’t the first time I talk about Woot! and it probably won’t be last… especially if they keep doing what they’re doing and expanding. What they do is simple: they sell only 1 item. 1 item per day. And once they sell a pre-determined number of items, it’s gone (presumably forever) and you can’t [...]
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19 Dec 2006Marijuana, the cash cow
It looks like the War on Drugs, just like the War on Terror, may not be 100% effective: according to a study, marijuana is the top U.S. cash crop – making it bigger than corn and wheat combined! Apparently California alone produces (illegally of course) $13.8 billion worth of marijuana. Now all [...]
In: Windows Mobile
12 Dec 2006Enabling JogBar
As I’ve previously mentioned, T-Mobile branded Dash doesn’t use the touch strip right next to the screen as a JogBar which allows you to scroll up and down (or launch applications by tapping twice): instead it’s just a volume slider. You could hack your registry in order to get JogBar functionality back… or you [...]
In: Movie Review
10 Dec 2006The Devil Wears Prada is a surprisingly fun and sharp adaptation of the book by Lauren Weisberger. Featuring great performances by Meryl Streep (as Miranda Priestly) and Anne Hathaway (as Andrea), the movie skillfully explores the behind-the-scene of a succesful and influential fashion magazine Vogue Runway.
Miranda Priestly is a ruthless editor-in-chief of Runway who values [...]
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8 Dec 2006Some visuals become iconic and Tron’s lightcycle racing is here to stay even the movie’s details may be forgotten… Honda’s new ad for its Civic Si borrows heavily from lightcycle racing (complete with the grid, obstacles and light trails) that looks fairly faithful to the original – of course lightcycles replaced with colorful Civics!
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