May 19, 2007

New Exclusive Transformers Trailer

Yahoo! Movies just dropped the new trailer for Transformers. First reaction: school girl giddiness. Second reaction: Ok, there isn’t too much in here that we haven’t seen before, but I still like it.



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Final Transformers theater trailer hits the web! [VIDEO + PICS]

Screenshots and the last theatrical trailer of the new live-action Transformers movie. Guaranteed to give you a robogasm!



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Sanctuary, a cool new web only sci-fi series is out and looking good.

Sanctuary is the very first web-based (non-televised) science fiction series. "The first broadcast caliber sci fi series developed specifically for the internet." It's like " 'The League of Extraordinary Gentleman' meets X-Files," but in Gotham City. What's cool is you get to see Stargate cast members like Carter & McKay in a new light.



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BitTorrent in Focus: TV-series are Hot

Almost 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do this to download TV-series, while only 10% of the available torrents are TV related. People who download TV-shows also have one of the best share ratios, only Anime fanatics beat them.



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Robert De Niro and Al Pacino Are Teaming Up for a New Movie

"Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are teaming to play New York police investigators hunting a serial killer in Jon Avnet's $60 million thriller "Righteous Kill" for Avi Lerner's Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films. The independently financed feature written by Russell Gewirtz unites longtime friends on screen for some 90% of the film." [popcandy]



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Rolling Stone: Inside Scientology

The Rolling Stone 2006 Article: "Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion"



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Jon Stewart Analyzes the FOX News GOP Debate

Final Analysis: Republicans want to rule over a fictional world created by FOX. Not exactly a "Stop the presses!" type revelation I admit...



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Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?

Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose.



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How To Beat The Stock Market: Buy Companies With High Customer Satisfaction

Using a back-tested paper portfolio and an actual case, the authors of a study published in the Journal of Marketing found that companies at the top 20% of the the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) greatly outperformed the the stock market, generating a 40% return.



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Refresh your High School Math skills

Do you remember precalculus or do you feel a bit rusty? This article features a few mathematical exercises to test your knowledge and resources to brush up your high school math skills.



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Parallel universes, the Matrix, and superintelligence

"Physicists are converging on a "theory of everything," probing the 11th dimension, developing computers for the next generation of robots, and speculating about civilizations millions of years ahead of ours" (Published on June 26, 2003.)



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Timothy Leary's Message to You, Here, Now.

Unearthed from the notes of Joe Bageant and recently published in Counterpunch. Bageant desribes a conversation between Leary and G. Gordon Liddy while the two were on their debating tour. It’s probably the most important thing you’ll read this month.



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Medical Marijuana: the Replacement for Very Dangerous Drugs

Cannabis / marijuana medicines were at one time the “drugs of choice” in the United States, until they were declared illegal. They had been used for 100 specific medical problems through the use of about 30 prescription medicines. Marijuana is less addictive and less dangerous than Starbuck’s espresso.



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Mod a cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch

Reader Kip modded a cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch that's brighter than a $95 fancy pants flashlight. Hit the play button to see how.



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25 Killer Code Snippets every Good Designer Should See

Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html, javascript, Ajax and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog (Part 5) .....



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