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			<title>Ensign&#039;s Log: Fourth Entry</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/14046/Ensigns-Log-Fourth-Entry/</link>
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It&#039;s been a long time since I have seen peace in this galaxy.

As we were charting the asteroid field around some forgotten, well yeah, uncharted planet in the Donia system in the Risa sector of the Sirius sector block, which in fact takes longer to get to than writing that out, we encountered hostile forces all pew-pew in high orbit, using the asteroid belt to shield them from our long-range sensors.

As we approached, we isolated their energy signatures and identified them as Nausicaans--the weirdo three-jawed race responsible for giving Picard a metal heart, which is pretty ba...]]></description>
			<category domain="">Recent News: Blogs: Max's Blog</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:50:03 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Ensign&#039;s Log: Third Entry</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/14032/Ensigns-Log-Third-Entry/</link>
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Today marks a black day in the history of the Federation.

En route to the Regulus sector my ship was flagged down by a diplomatic envoy heading to Diplomatic Envoy System Prime under siege.  After beaming the survivors aboard, further investigation revealed that the attackers were in fact Klingon warships infringing on Federation space.  These Klingon rebels were establishing a base inside the Sirrus sector block, and we were forced to destroy them.  It is a dark way to progress in my career, and I will always regret the means by which I achieved the rank of Lieutenant.  

They were ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:44:31 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Shutter Island, Interviewed</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/14031/Shutter-Island-Interviewed/</link>
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I sat down with Martin Scorsese to talk about his most recent film.

Shutter Island didn&#039;t start out as a film, is that right Mr. Scorsese?
     Yeah, yeah, it didn&#039;t.  Nah, I was watchin&#039; TV, on like, a Saturday night, Sunday morning-type deal.  And then the fuckin&#039; TV goes blank.  Shi--shoot, I think--no wait, I said it on the couch, you know, &#039;cept I didn&#039;t say &#039;shoot&#039;, right?  But then I realize: this isn&#039;t my TV, you know?  It&#039;s like, this old TV show.

The Outer Limits.
     Yeah, The Outer Limits.  The old one, not the new shi...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:54:34 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Ensign&#039;s Log: Second Entry</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/14028/Ensigns-Log-Second-Entry/</link>
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During our ongoing mission to patrol the Orion sector, we were attacked by a fleet of Klingons waylaying Starbase 24.  Under Admiral... Sulu?  Sulu?  That doesn&#039;t sound right... Under the Admiral&#039;s orders, we--wait, you can&#039;t ambush a Starbase.

<em>"waylay, English, v.

Pronunciation: IPA: /&#716;we&#618;&#712;le&#618;/

Infinitive: to waylay
Third person singular: waylays
Simple past: waylaid or (nonstandard) waylayed
Past participle: waylaid or (nonstandard) waylayed
Present participle: waylaying

   1. (transitive) To lie in wait for and attack from ambush....]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:50:35 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Ensign&#039;s Log, Supplemental</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/14023/Ensigns-Log-Supplemental/</link>
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I had a chance to look up my Star Fleet record after returning from the surface of Hostile Borg-infested Planet One, and my given name is Ander.  Ander V Polito; I can only assume the V is short for Very Handsome.

We dispatched several waves of Borg drones, and they were all ZZZZT, but my colleague and I were all PEW PEW, so they were uncharacteristically URGLE SIZZLE.  We managed to destroy their Devices and return to the ship in low orbit over HBP-1 and continue our work on improving our key bindings.

Interestingly enough, as a by-product of our blasting the shit out of surreptiti...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:26:24 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Ensign&#039;s Log, Stardate...: First Entry</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/14021/Ensigns-Log-Stardate-First-Entry/</link>
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Acting Captain of the USS Padamame, Ensign--I forgot my first name--Polito:

After learning how to jump over crates, I have beamed aboard the Padamame and taken the bridge.  My First Mate is African-Vulcan, and is very, very fast.  Together we&#039;ve overcome multiple Borg scout craft, although we&#039;ve lost three Federation frigates in the process.  

Our goal is to retake compromised sectors of the Alpha quadrant, which is funny because we keep coming across doods from Delta, or Gamma, or wherever the Borg and the Dominion hail from.

According to the computer, my home world of...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:22:25 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Hey Look, Double-Secret Vista &quot;DRM&quot; Folder</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13907/Hey-Look-DoubleSecret-Vista-DRM-Folder/</link>
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Step 1: clean off desk
Step 2: find discarded processor
Step 3: upgrade HTPC with discarded processor
Step 4: South Park
Step 5: Error: Digital Cable device registration application has stopped working...
Step 6: Windows Security Component Upgrade fails
Step 7: find C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/DRM/, delete
Step 8: Error: Digital Cable device registration application has stopped working...
Step 9: navigate to C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/DRM/, folder nonexistent
Step 10: type in C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/DRM/
Step 11: Folder is empty.
Step 12: no, it isn&#039;t, you fuck...]]></description>
			<category domain="">Recent News: Blogs: Max's Blog</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:31:58 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>IE8 Dicked with Firefox</title>
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So, like, not cool, Microsoft.  Not cool.

I do a lot of searches and keywords make all this a matter of muscle memory.  Ctrl-L + g, Google.  Ctrl-L + w, Wikipedia, + m, Google images, + a, Amazon, + n, Newegg...  So removing my keyword searches and replacing them with Bing is about the smartest and most efficient way for me to never ever use it.  Like a newb I&#039;m binging for ways to restore Google as my location bar&#039;s default search engine.  Why?  Because it&#039;s about the only way I can think to tell Microsoft not to dick with my settings.

Oh yeah, and I did this whole...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue,  2 Jun 2009 23:19:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Zombie Pin-up Girls - Hot Girls With BRAAAAAIIIIINS</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13522/Zombie-Pinup-Girls-Hot-Girls-With-BRAAAAAIIIIINS/</link>
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Just when you think you&#039;ve seen it all, the Interwebs strike again! Check out the rack on Miss May! Oh... and don&#039;t mind her yearning to eat your flesh. It&#039;s completely sexual.

I love the internet.
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			<category domain="">Recent News: Blogs: Blog-o-Brian</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:51:34 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bill Gates Unleashes The Fury</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13503/Bill-Gates-Unleashes-The-Fury/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At a recent conference, Microsoft&#039;s "I&#039;m a PC" campaign took a strange twist when BG himself released a plague upon the crowd. Apparently Petsmart was fresh out of locust, though, so he went with mosquitoes instead. And then the dancing monkey [and the talking walnut] rushed, naked from socks-up, onto the stage chanting something about developers malaria (now he&#039;s just making up words). Silly monkey.

this post was inspired by real events]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu,  5 Feb 2009 03:11:58 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Comcast Gives Tucson The Business</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13496/Comcast-Gives-Tucson-The-Business/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It appears as though somebody with access to Comcast&#039;s Wii&#039;mote wasn&#039;t a big fan of Arizona. Their people are &#039;working tirelessly&#039; to figure out how or why people in Tucson were treated to an unexpected package, by which I mean a penis, slapping about back and forth, after the big Arizona touchdown. My guess: someone was a Steelers fan.

Michael Desir, one of many to have seen the incident, best sums this up with the following:

M. Desir: It&#039;s like my uncle always told me: "Eventually, you&#039;re going to see someone&#039;s cock waving around on television...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon,  2 Feb 2009 17:05:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Ducati Monster 1100 US Debut</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13452/Ducati-Monster-1100-US-Debut/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[

On January 11th, the Ducati Monster 1100 and 1100S were on display in the United States despite having been initially unveiled last October in International Motorcycle Show in Germany. So while the new Monster has already been on European roads, this is the first we Americans are seeing of it.

The new 1100 is the big brother of the recently revamped Monster 696, the style of which has been significantly refined and polished in 2008-2009. The Monster has had a legion of followers since it’s debut in 1993. In 2005, the over half of all Ducati motorcycles sold were Monsters. I’m persona...]]></description>
			<category domain="">Recent News: Blogs: Blog-o-Brian</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:30:53 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>I Heart Oppo?</title>
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<em>"There are enough crappy Chinese MP3 players to fill a toxic Shenzhen waste dump many times over, but the Oppo Muse G11, with its traditional d-pad and promise of 8-bit glories emulated: I want.

While some of the photos here clearly show a real device, you can see that modesty has inclined lil&#039; Oppo to only be shown from the rear, save for in chaste rendering form. So hopefully the d-pad and traditional SNES/PlayStation four-button config makes it to the final stages of production. News today is pricing: 1099 yuan, or $160. That only appears to buy you a paltry 4GB, but thro...]]></description>
			<category domain="">Recent News: Blogs: Max's Blog</category>
			<pubDate>Fri,  2 Jan 2009 16:18:52 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bruce Lee, Master of Ping-Pong</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13422/Bruce-Lee-Master-of-PingPong/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[

I can&#039;t find words...]]></description>
			<category domain="">Recent News: Blogs: Kurtis' Blahg</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:42:07 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Zacuto&#039;s Great HD Video Camera Shootout</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13412/Zacutos-Great-HD-Video-Camera-Shootout/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I got an email this past Friday from the folks at Zacuto telling me about a test they&#039;ve done that pits the following cameras against one another in a sort of Battle Royale:

Kodak Vision3, Red ONE, Panasonic HPX3000, Panasonic HVX200, Panasonic HVX200, Panasonic HVX200, Sony PMW-EX, Panasonic HPX170, Canon XHA1, Canon 5D MarkII, Nikon D90.

You may notice that a couple of those cameras are DSLRs. I&#039;ve been waiting for someone to put together a test like this - same scene, same lighting, lots of different cameras. And I&#039;m happy to see that the pros think the 5D Mark II&#0...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:45:59 -0600</pubDate>
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