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May 10, 25 |
Delusional militia menaces weather scientists |
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Oct 5, 21 |
“Do Not Track” isn’t working |
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Sep 29, 21 |
The Imposter’s Handbook |
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Sep 4, 21 |
An RSS feed of book launches |
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Aug 27, 21 |
Vegan baking adventure |
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Aug 19, 21 |
Apple’s messy podcast subscription service |
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Aug 19, 21 |
How the climate emergency accelerates |
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Jul 17, 21 |
The time for hesitation is over |
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Jul 16, 21 |
Murderbot Diaries not quite winning me over |
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Jul 15, 21 |
Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms |
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Jul 7, 21 |
The Tomorrow War is an extremely realistic film |
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Jun 25, 21 |
Ratings reversal |
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Jun 25, 21 |
Not so foreign |
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Jun 1, 21 |
Project Hail Mary ★★★★☆ |
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May 29, 21 |
Gaga sings Smelly Cat |
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May 29, 21 |
Under the Skin ★★★☆☆ |
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May 27, 21 |
Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆ |
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May 24, 21 |
Narcissistic flexing |
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May 24, 21 |
The Chicks vs. The Iraq War |
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May 22, 21 |
Too Like the Lightning ★☆☆☆☆ |
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May 8, 21 |
Made for Love ★★★★☆ |
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May 5, 21 |
Another Round ★★★☆☆ |
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Apr 15, 21 |
Stephen King’s “The Tan” |
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Dec 13, 20 |
You’re welcome |
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Sep 25, 20 |
“Have you turned it off and on again?” |
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Aug 21, 20 |
SETI marches on |
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Jun 25, 20 |
It’s life, Jim, but it looks weird |
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Jun 9, 19 |
Go see Booksmart |
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May 30, 19 |
Game of Thrones: Flawed but still amazing |
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Mar 8, 19 |
The Favourite: micro review |
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Nov 28, 18 |
Astrology book in science book display |
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Nov 6, 18 |
First Man: brilliant but surprisingly morose |
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Oct 9, 18 |
A Deepness in the Sky |
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Jun 23, 18 |
Nature at it’s weirdest and creepiest |
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Jun 8, 18 |
Comedic constipation and diarrhea |
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Apr 26, 18 |
Actually “so bad it’s good” |
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Jan 15, 18 |
Chronic Pain and Tragic Irony: I started out helping people with chronic pain and now I have it |
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Jul 5, 17 |
Weird, cool Queen concert follow-up item: the crinoline thing |
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Jul 3, 17 |
Another classic band on tour: Queen this time! |
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Jun 3, 17 |
Midnight Oil again |
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Nov 14, 16 |
Done with Trek |
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Feb 18, 16 |
What are the best books about writing style? |
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Dec 14, 15 |
A domain move disaster |
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Dec 4, 15 |
2 days to watch rented movies from iTunes is not long enough |
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Nov 16, 15 |
Stressed about stress |
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Oct 19, 15 |
A rock in my throat: The story of a terrible tonsil stone |
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Aug 28, 15 |
Getting the Borderlands vibe right |
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May 11, 15 |
Caustic Soda lets ladies take over |
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May 7, 15 |
The inventor of malls |
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May 3, 15 |
Few really ask |
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Apr 5, 15 |
Doing nothing |
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Feb 19, 15 |
Lindy West’s remorseful troll |
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Oct 2, 14 |
Speak to me |
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Sep 2, 14 |
Overcast’s Smart Speed: faster podcasts that don’t feel faster |
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Aug 31, 14 |
Outlander: so far, so good |
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Jul 7, 14 |
The Sarantine Mosaic ★★★★☆ |
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May 26, 14 |
No Strings Attached ★★★★☆ |
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May 17, 14 |
Giger is dead |
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May 3, 14 |
After antibiotics |
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Apr 19, 14 |
Run like it’s 911 |
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Apr 1, 14 |
From the Dept of No Fucking Shit |
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Mar 22, 14 |
Blindness ★★★☆☆ |
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Mar 22, 14 |
Riddick-ulous again ★★★☆☆ |
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Mar 2, 14 |
Enough Said ★★★☆☆ |
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Mar 1, 14 |
The Abominable Science of the Cryptids |
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Feb 17, 14 |
Get Real: You Are Poor |
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Feb 15, 14 |
The Monuments Men ★★★☆☆ |
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Feb 14, 14 |
Ender’s Game ★★☆☆☆ |
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Feb 11, 14 |
No more dreams, please |
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Oct 24, 13 |
Pseudo-science is all grown up |
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Oct 16, 13 |
After Earth ★★☆☆☆ |
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Oct 1, 13 |
Fiction & Science Fiction in Ancient Rome |
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Sep 29, 13 |
Storytelling fail |
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Sep 28, 13 |
Gamer ★★☆☆☆ Not much fun |
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Sep 28, 13 |
Admission ★★★☆☆ Well, I liked it anyway |
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Sep 25, 13 |
Marsbound etc ★☆☆☆☆ |
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Aug 29, 13 |
Elysium ★★☆☆☆ Shallow & noisy |
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Aug 19, 13 |
Agora ★★★★☆ Inspiring then depressing |
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Aug 19, 13 |
Centurion & The Eagle ★★★☆☆ A pair of 2011 films about the 9th Legion |
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Aug 14, 13 |
Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, and when to worry about back pain |
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Jul 28, 13 |
So unrealistic |
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Jun 24, 13 |
The Impossible ★★★☆☆ |
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Jun 24, 13 |
Oz the Great & Powerful ★☆☆☆☆ |
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Jun 24, 13 |
Chasing Ice ★★★★☆ |
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May 29, 13 |
Room 237 abuses The Shining and Kubrick |
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May 17, 13 |
Justice is tricky |
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May 9, 13 |
Gone Girl review |
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Apr 17, 13 |
Under Heaven |
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Mar 30, 13 |
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food |
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Mar 3, 13 |
Spoiler alert! The fate of every successful species is to wipe itself out |
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Feb 13, 13 |
The Sonic Hedgehog Gene |
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Feb 10, 13 |
The Secret Origin of Windows |
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Feb 9, 13 |
Raining face huggers |
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Dec 17, 12 |
Snow White and the Huntsman: under-rated high fantasy ★★★★☆ |
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Dec 14, 12 |
It’s science |
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Dec 14, 12 |
Rivalling the tragedy of wars, plagues & famines |
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Nov 3, 12 |
White Wedding, Unplugged by Ian Kelly |
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Aug 29, 12 |
Wanderlust ★★☆☆☆ Rudd does Rudd |
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Aug 28, 12 |
Wrath of the Titans ★★★☆☆ A self-aware, winking romp |
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Aug 28, 12 |
Total Recall ★★☆☆☆ Guilty-pleasure only! |
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Aug 27, 12 |
Indie Game ★★★☆☆ Brilliantly filmed, surprisingly tense |
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Aug 6, 12 |
Insecure and unhappy childhoods |
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Jul 30, 12 |
An albino, a mosquito |
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Jul 27, 12 |
More Prometheus mockery, more! |
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Jul 23, 12 |
Attack the Block ★★★☆☆ Maybe a little over-rated, but fresh and fun |
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Jul 14, 12 |
The Descendants ★★★☆☆ Nice, but enough with the ukulele |
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Jul 14, 12 |
Prometheus ★☆☆☆☆ The Alien franchise sinks even lower still |
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Jun 29, 12 |
We Die Alone |
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Jun 16, 12 |
Some people think Prometheus is a great film |
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Jun 11, 12 |
A wonderful Prometheus snark-a-thon |
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Jun 6, 12 |
Bradbury on illiteracy |
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May 24, 12 |
It is known |
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Apr 27, 12 |
The Station Agent ★★★★★ Peter Dinklage (long) before Game of Thrones |
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Apr 25, 12 |
Everything Must Go ★★★★☆ Pleasingly simple, engaging |
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Apr 19, 12 |
SolarWalk ★★★★☆ |
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Apr 19, 12 |
SkySafari ★★★★★ |
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Apr 19, 12 |
Ghost Protocol ★★★☆☆ Over-rated! |
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Mar 22, 12 |
Talhotblond ★★★☆☆ |
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Mar 15, 12 |
A 50-soak read ★★★★☆: Grammar book read exclusively in the hot tub over more than a year |
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Mar 13, 12 |
The Way Back ★★★☆☆ A really long walk makes for sparse drama |
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Mar 12, 12 |
The Sea Inside ★★★★★ Great, but sooo depressing! |
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Mar 12, 12 |
Ponyo ★★★☆☆ Meh |
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Mar 4, 12 |
Game of Thrones ★★★★☆ |
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Mar 2, 12 |
The user-unfriendly future of books |
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Feb 17, 12 |
Take Shelter ★★★★★ Easiest film to spoil ever |
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Feb 15, 12 |
Conan the Barbarian ★★☆☆☆Tedious! |
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Feb 14, 12 |
The Ides of March ★★★☆☆ A skillful film, but grim, tense and bitter |
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Feb 14, 12 |
The Guard ★★★★☆ |
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Jan 1, 12 |
Sherlock Holmes: ★★☆☆☆ |
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Dec 25, 11 |
War Horse ★★☆☆☆ Spielberg at his mediocre worst |
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Dec 12, 11 |
Cargo review ★☆☆☆☆ Where’s the “smart,” exactly? |
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Sep 16, 11 |
The Ghost Brigades Review |
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Sep 4, 11 |
Troll Hunter micro-review |
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Aug 16, 11 |
my xkcd picks |
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Jul 26, 11 |
When Patents Attack! |
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Jul 3, 11 |
Micro Review: Old Man’s War is pulpy fun from a fine writer |
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Jun 25, 11 |
Super 8 is about itself |
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Jun 25, 11 |
Now that’s how you make a villain! How X-Men First Class got it right (and Lucas got it wrong) |
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Jun 1, 11 |
Neat Canada goose behaviour |
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Apr 22, 11 |
Imagine better haircuts |
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Mar 14, 11 |
Ebert rips Battle: LA a new one |
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Mar 13, 11 |
Monsters Mini-Review ★★★★☆ Moody and intriguing, but a bit boring |
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Jan 25, 11 |
Reservoir Dogs in 60 Seconds |
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Jan 5, 11 |
Dawkins on the horror of the “circle of life” |
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Jan 2, 11 |
Science Fiction Fans: Lower Your Standards! |
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Dec 28, 10 |
Micro-review of The King’s Speech |
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Dec 24, 10 |
In praise of the sci-fi corridor |
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Dec 3, 10 |
Happiness is … |
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Nov 26, 10 |
Ironic regulatory fail! |
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Nov 23, 10 |
Joss Whedon on the Buffy reboot |
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Nov 20, 10 |
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be ★★★★★ |
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Nov 16, 10 |
The Beatles on iTunes? Meh |
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Nov 5, 10 |
Predators ★☆☆☆☆ A weak homage |
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Nov 5, 10 |
IMDb app micro-review |
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Oct 25, 10 |
Splice ★☆☆☆☆ Not-in-a-good-way creepy |
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Oct 11, 10 |
The Earth belonged to the Martians |
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Oct 9, 10 |
Radiolab Does War of the Worlds |
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Oct 3, 10 |
Book review (and my first ebook): An Oblique Approach, by David Drake & Eric Flint |
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Sep 14, 10 |
Herding drunken, stupid cats |