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I’m not sure what will end up being a more depressing DVD release — The Last Kiss, or the Raiders’ 2006 team video. Probably depends on the number of Imogen Heap songs.

Bill Simmons
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You’re a fuckonaut, in a silver spaceship, traveling a parallel universe of stupid.

Coupon
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After offering his version of events, Owens said he plans to practice Thursday. He also hopes to play Sunday against Tennessee, if his surgically repaired right hand can take it. That officially would make him the first player in NFL history to be upgraded from suicidal to questionable in the span of less than a day.

Pat Forde
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Saying that you’re going to make the web a place for comics is like suggesting that you plan to colonize the Earth.

Tycho Brahe
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We’ve got nine Iraq war veterans running for House seats. President Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy is the Democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia. A three‐star admiral who was on my NSC staff is running for Kurt Weldon’s seat in Pennsylvania. We’ve got a huge military presence in this campaign — you can’t let [the GOP] have some rhetorical device that puts us in a box that we don’t belong in. That’s their job. Their job is to beat us. But our job is to not let them get away with it. And if we don’t we’ll be fine.

Bill Clinton (on the midterm elections)
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
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Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes

Verdict: 86/100 (Minimum score is 0; maximum is 100.)

Wow. This game scores very highly on my RTS rubric: full camera control, no forced micromanagement, sane multiplayer, and a forgiving learning curve. It’s so engrossing I’ll forgive it for indulging in the boilerplate “noun of noun” naming convention for World War II video games.

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Nokia releases Carbide.ui, a new skinning application for Series 60. It’s based on Eclipse and is roughly 4,000 times less crappy than its previous offering, S60 Theme Studio. Here’s hoping it leads to equally‐less‐crappy S60 themes.