February 2008


For all you horror fans, here’s a great compilation of grotesquely unique “weapons” used to kill people in horror movies. My favorite is #9, the basketball.

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Someone sends their custom Xbox 360 to the repair center after being assured by Microsoft that it would be returned safe and sound. Except someone at the repair center “cleaned” the custom artwork and signatures right off the console. Unbelievable!

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I ripped into Fox “News” while on a Fox “News” morning show last week. I thought I’d answer a bunch of questions people had about the incident.

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The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.

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WASHINGTON — When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton goes after Senator Barack Obama these days, she presses him on the details of his health care plan, criticizes the wording of his campaign mailings and likens his promise of change to celestial choirs.

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Ad exec Paul Tilley apparently jumped from an upper floor of the Fairmont Chicago Hotel Friday, and his death was ruled a suicide by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. In his career, he led creative teams that came up with Dell’s “Dude, You’re Gettin’ a Dell” campaign and advertising in McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” effort. RIP

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An aggressive campaign by the White House and its allies to win approval of a new electronic spying bill is escalating partisan tensions on Capitol Hill. The contentious debate over the measure could spill over into this fall’s election campaign. Contact House Representatives and tell them to stand strong against this nonsense. Spread the word.

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“The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year [2003] by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq.”

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The backing by Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani and two vice presidents is the final step for the approval of Ali Hassan al-Majid’s death sentence, which must be carried out within 30 days of the decision.

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Here are some movies (starting with my favorite and working on down) that I think were great representatives for the comic book world before the current boom of superhero movies.

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