July 2010
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Conflict Minerals Part 1
By DK Balanay
You may have heard, or you may just be hearing it as it pops up through the Twitterverse and Facebook, but the PC you’ve got whirring noisily at your feet isn’t as clean and all-American as many people would like to believe.
The not-so-shocking part is that your Macintosh humming quietly beneath your fingers isn’t either.
I posted a video (in retrospect) called...
What Dreams May Come
It follows that I would have dreams about the Doctor; reasonably so, since I spent the better part of 12 hours yesterday watching every episode I had missed and then some. It was refreshing.
While my usual dreams about the Doctor sync nicely with the spirit of the show and the Doctor himself, I was a bit confused, and didn’t realise what was going on until just before I woke up. Still, I...
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Dr. Who
By DK Balanay
I just finished watching the fifth season finale of Dr. Who staring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.
Now, I’m a HUGE Dr. Who fan, and I can’t begin to describe how much I think about the show. If there’s anything I have yet to do, I could do with seeing every episode pre-reincarnation. Of course, if anyone wants to buy me some of those episodes, I’d be...
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Noein
Harry and I just finished an anime series called Noein. Neither of us had heard of the story before, so we sat down to watch it a couple weeks ago, and got hooked.
The wiki page linked above states:
Noein: To Your Other Self (ノエイン もうひとりの君へ Noein: Mō Hitori no Kimi e?), also known simply as Noein, is a science fictionanime television series directed by Kazuki Akane and Kenji Yasuda and produced...
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Alan Wake
By DK Balanay
Alan Wake, the new game by Remedy Entertainment (the same people who did Max Payne, is out for Xbox and PS3 under the Microsoft Gaming Studios publisher. The game is wonderfully addictive and comprehensive, if only rough around the edges. Gameplay works on a form of AI that adapts to each player’s own style, changingthe game’s difficulty as he or she advances —...
Just a few notes:
My iPhone 3G has been behaving poorly since the upgrade to iOS4. It stutters more often, and typing has amazingly turned for the worse. perhaps that’s just me, but I blame both the jittery behavior and the new “updated” auto-correct/spellcheck system.
My teacher asked me politely in Spanish today (both in class and in the language) to take longer before...
