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Irony of the term ‘miles per gallon’

Rob @ August 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Chevrolet made big waves this week with the announcement of the Volt, the electric car by General Motors — Government Motors if you are so inclined to label — has slated to be the crowning achievement of the post-bankruptcy company, and a delivery on the promise to make a leaner, meaner and more energy efficient […]

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NHL player gets violent with taxi driver

andrea @ August 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Wow, a hockey player with anger issues? What a surprise.

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UFC 101: Redemption

Rob @ August 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet

UFC 101: Redemption is appropriately titled.  The headline fights that feature the big UFC stars BBL (Before Brock Lesnar) like Forrest Griffin and B.J. Penn, both who lost their last fights and looking to prove that they are not on the back end of their careers.

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Disney diva nude, online…again

Brittany @ August 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Back in 2007, Disney pop diva Vanessa Hudgens gained just a little more fame. Okay…a lot more fame, and it wasn’t due to the release of High School Musical 2, either. Scandal was reason, one surrounding the apparent “leak” of nude pictures of the poppy Disney princess over the Web. Now, two years later, it […]

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Urban Meyer paid to stay

Rob @ August 4, 2009 # One Comment

Urban Meyer, coach for the University of Florida football team, which has won two national championships in three years, got a pay raise.  Meyer’s set to make an additional $750,000 a year, bringing his annual paycheck to some $4 million, which makes him the highest paid coach in the South Eastern Conference.  He’s only a […]

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History repeating itself in the White House

Rob @ August 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

When George Bush Sr. ran for office before the ’90s, he ran on a platform of no new taxes, which is what Republicans far and wide believe in.  Unfortunately, with the government sliding into recession and facing increasing financial strain and difficulty, Bush Sr. couldn’t stand by those promises and had to increase revenue by […]

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Google strikes back

Rob @ August 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Microsoft has had a long history of trying to do everything and being able to throw enough money at it to get its way.   Microsoft single-handedly took over the personal computing market many years ago with a DOS system to compete with Apple’s Macintosh.  Microsoft built such a dominance over Apple that even with […]

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Goople: Apple and Google link

Rob @ August 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

If you’ve followed technology trends in the last year, it’s easy to see how Google has been trying to break into a few different industries.   With the launch of the Android phone, Google threw itself into battle with the iPhone, a fight the entire smart phone industry has been waging since Apple first went […]

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Obama: The Joker?

Brittany @ August 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

A ton of posters portraying our president as the Joker (“Holy latent laughter, Batman!) have been showing up on the walls of buildings, on telephone poles and on the streets of one state recently. Surprisingly, this state is known to be one of our country’s most liberal. And the prize goes to… California, and more […]

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World of Warcraft 3.2

Rob @ August 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

World of Warcraft is a game that has claimed many lives over the years, sucking the social life out of the youth of America (and China, but they don’t have much of a choice).  And as WoW (its affectionate term in the online gaming realm) has done exceptionally well over the years, once again more […]

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