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If you like movies, and who doesn’t, and if you get Turner Classic Movies, you should check in this February as they are having their annual celebration of the Academy Awards, “31 Days of Oscar.”
I’m not a big fan of The Academy Awards anymore. Instead of rewarding excellence, it’s become a horse race, and I’ll […]

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Epicenter from Wired.com:
Ebay Sellers Riled Up About New Fees and Feedback Rules

After a fairly challenging year, John Donahoe, who takes over as eBay CEO at the end of March, unveiled plans yesterday to lower the upfront listing fee and increase the back-end fee for sellers. The so-called “success-based” model, which takes effect Feb. 20, is […]

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From Macworld:
Microsoft says Wii owners can ‘graduate’ to Xbox 360:
Jeff Bell, VP of global Xbox marketing, implied what many hardcore gamers believe: that Wii’s lack of technology and lasting gameplay leaves something to be desired.
“We’re positioning ourselves to be ready if, in fact, gamers find they’re ready to graduate from a certain experience potentially with […]

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From the LA Times.com
Pediatricians say new TV show perpetuates autism myth - Los Angeles Times:
ABC’s new drama, “Eli Stone,” debuts on Thursday. It features British actor Jonny Lee Miller as a prophet-like lawyer who in the opening episode argues in court that a flu vaccine made a child autistic. When it is revealed in court […]

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From The Atlantic.com
The Autumn of the Multitaskers:
It isn’t working, it never has worked, and though we’re still pushing and driving to make it work and puzzled as to why we haven’t stopped yet, which makes us think we may go on forever, the stoppage or slowdown is coming nonetheless, and when it does, we’ll be […]

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From Daily Kos:
Perspective On Health Care Reform:
The diagnosis of imminent collapse rests on three symptoms. First, without affordable universal coverage, the system leaves 47 million Americans uninsured. Second, health care costs are extraordinarily high: the United States spends about 16% of its annual gross domestic product (GDP), or $6,400 per capita, on health care, whereas […]

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From the Huffington Post:
Ashleigh Banfield: It’s Not Easy Defending A Loser:
Flash forward to 2008. Did Mr. Munsen’s behavior really intimidate, oppress, injure, or threaten the roughly 20,000 marchers he was up against? That standard is very tough to meet ..that is if the case even gets heard. One thing we do know is that stupid […]

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Last night I caught the History of Anime special on STARZ. Meh.
While their interpretation of the timeline was fairly decent (they put anime in the context of manga, the influence of Osamu Tezuka [he didn’t pronounce the “u”, so it would be Tez-ka; they all got it wrong], and anime’s influence on modern action films), […]

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You can see it at trekmovie.com. I like it, and all we see is a fleeting glimpse. Yes, you may be tempted to leave after the trailer plays ahead of "Cloverfield" but stick around, I hear the director is pretty good.
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Does anyone else think this is in response to Apple, Netflix and Amazon?

(Time Warner), the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Internet customers tiered levels of service based on how much data they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price […]

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