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			<title>Ensign&#039;s Log: Third Entry</title>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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			<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>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>
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			<pubDate>Fri,  2 Jan 2009 16:18:52 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Mass Effect Going All Sony</title>
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<em>"Despite the first Mass Effect being billed as an Xbox 360 exclusive, famed developer BioWare tells Joystiq that it has "never confirmed any plans of Mass Effect exclusivity for the trilogy."

Though the sci-fi action-RPG later appeared on PC, the title is still considered an Xbox 360 exclusive in terms of the console market--meaning it has not appeared on rival systems PlayStation 3 or Wii. "</em>

PS3 guys, I&#039;m going to ruin it for you.  Mass Effect was a beautiful, plot-driven Cleavland steamer.  With it&#039;s fantastic visuals, the game actually starts in on choppy whe...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:57:17 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>If It Ain&#039;t Broke...</title>
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<em>"Making Gaming Better @ bit-tech.net
Buy the games
Piracy is a topic in itself. It goes without saying that devs need to eat and if a game doesn&#039;t sell you can kiss goodbye to support, sequels and similar games. If you are playing a game you haven&#039;t bought, you are invisible as far as the developer is concerned. Only by buying the games you like can you possibly encourage similar, good quality games to be made. And confront other people who are pirating games too. You are subsidising them getting free games, so make sure they know how you feel about such freeloading. Peo...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:18:57 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>AH! I Got Struck By Lightning</title>
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Insurmountable evidence points to the cause of the power outage: my neighbor&#039;s tree grounded a bolt of lightning.  I thought it was peculiar that I could see the lightning and hear the thunder  at the same time.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:25:14 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Excuses, Excuses, or Why No News?</title>
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For being such a nice day, everything&#039;s wet.  The whole city got hit by a flash flood and cars were shorted out at rush hour as far as the eye could see.  It would have been funnier if my power wasn&#039;t killed by the same precipitate...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:15:59 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Transformers: Before they were Productively Placed</title>
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<em>"Apparently, it is unclear to the executives behind Transformers why we, and many other nerds, watched the show to begin with. We suppose the burden of responsibility falls on us to clarify: It's the giant robots fighting each other . In case you guys weren't sure—if, perhaps, it was neck and neck between robot-fighting and data analysis—we pray ours can be the deciding vote. When you have five loose-cannon robots, all of whom are just itching to fight other robots with or without a reasonable excuse, for Christ's sake, don't ruin every single one of them by sticking them together t...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed,  4 Jul 2007 22:28:26 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Happy Independence Day</title>
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Independence day.  The day we were all saved by one of the Quaids plowing right into the wang of a UFO.  Also, we were saved by an Apple, what was it?  A MacBook?  'Cause that Objective-C be tight.  We shall never forget the day Jeff Goldblum stuttered, insisting we must go faster, and the downed Will Smith punched an alien instead of barbecuing.  Long live the First Lady, re-born as the once-again dying--what I mean by that is she's dying--President of Battlestar Galactica.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed,  4 Jul 2007 16:28:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>This Is Almost As Cool As Dark Side of the Moon 2001</title>
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<em>"This Friday, July 6th The Tatamimats will be doing an encore performance of "Dark Side of the Uke", their ukulele-only version of Pink Floyd's classic album "Dark Side of the Moon". The show takes place at The Knockout in San Francisco and is in celebration of The Knockout's 2nd anniversary. The Knockout is in the venue that was previously Chicken John's infamous Odeon Bar."</em>

I heartily recommend that anyone who enjoys "Dark Side of the Moon" check out "Dark side of the Moon 2001" by Out of Phase.  

But this is definitely as cool as While My Guitar Gently Weeps on the "uk...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue,  3 Jul 2007 22:51:09 -0500</pubDate>
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