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It’s about a ten minute walk between the building I work in and the central building of the campus. There’s a spot in between, right in front of the Starbucks, where nearly every day there is a fresh pair of idealistic young college students who want to save something or to get me to [...]

It turns out that gamers might just be freaks worthy of academic study. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website, the National Science Foundation has awarded Bonnie Nardi at UC-Irvine a grant to study how people play the popular online game World of Warcraft. According to the grant abstract published on NSF’s [...]

So on Monday, in the midst of the stock market’s tanking, I had a conversation with one of my friend’s that culminated in his saying “I don’t even want to look at my 401k,” a sentiment with which I vehemently agreed. And then I realized that we were actually having a conversation about our [...]

Once in a while a friend asks me if I want to go to a concert for a band I’m not all that familiar with. Maybe about half the time I will decide to go. Maybe about half of those times do I really enjoy myself and the music. Every now and [...]

Oh shit, there goes the television.
After years and years of speculation on sequels and announcements that didn’t quite materialize, Spaceballs:  The Animated Series is set to debut this coming weekend on cable network G4.  I’m trying to keep my expectations in check, but still, I have hope that this will be worth watching.  Okay, I’m [...]

MTV.com is reporting that the next Batman sequel is already on the books at Warner Bros.  At the Toronto Film Festival, Michael Caine spilled not only the villains, but the actors tapped to play them.  Caine claims to have studio confirmation that Johnny Depp is onboard as The Riddler, while Philip Seymour Hoffman will portray [...]