Posted on May 25, 2006 by Mike Lewis
I just ordered a new CD from CD Baby (Matty Charles - a very chill country band from Brooklyn) and as with any company, i got a nice message that they have shipped my CD. Check this out….
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2006 by Mike Lewis
Here’s a great story I read a few years ago that i thought i’d share with y’all:
The following picture is of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer hunting about a year ago when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2006 by Mike Lewis
I read about some people recently discussing Fight Club (here) which is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'd like to take a moment to discuss some of items currently brewing around the classic….
First, The are creating a musical on Fight Club. Yes, you read that correctly - a musical, as in [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2006 by Mike Lewis
A few weeks ago i posted about the liklihood of a Google PC of of their browser-centric focus and the cost of PCs. Well, i have discovered a few more items since then.
1. Check out this $100 PC. This is just like what i described previously. All flash, all browser. The [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2006 by Mike Lewis
I'm updating the summer movie schedule. Kevin Smith has a very funny quote on his blog (no-joke) about why he's moving Clerks II up:
In a ballsy move that says “Fuck you: we’re a five million dollar flick and we’re coming out in the fucking middle of the summer, bitches!”
So, the schedule is now:
May 19: [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2006 by Mike Lewis
To all the mothers out there (especially mine): you rock. This video is for you:
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Posted on May 11, 2006 by Mike Lewis
In the past few months, i've had quite a few questions about what "subscription" music is. This is my attempt to explain it.
Napster, Rhapsody, MusicNow, MTV, and Yahoo! all offer services where you can get unlimited music for about $10 a month. The one caveat is that the tracks you download with these [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2006 by Mike Lewis
It's been 20 years since the accident at Chernobyl, and there's a great photo journal at this site. If you have a chance, check it out. As people today begin to care more about the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere, Nuclear energy is back in vogue. There are plans in effect to open [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2006 by Mike Lewis
I saw Mission Impossible 3 this weekend and was happy to finally get into summer movie-watching mode. Before i get started talking about the summer, I must say that i really liked Mi3 for a few reasons:
The main reason - Great action scenes. The first scene with the helicopter was very cool (7 out of [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2006 by Mike Lewis
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is [...]
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