Review: LaCie 1 TB d2 Quadra Hard Drive

[I wrote this review, with additional revisions here, for a major electronics purveyor's Web site.] "No problems so far," written 3/26/2010 Pros: Easy to setup, High capacity, Easy to use Best uses: Backup, Additional storage Describe yourself: Casual user Primary use: Personal I know starting my review with the headline "no problems so far" doesn't convey much confidence. But before...
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War on Civilians in the Dem. Rep. of the Congo

The most devastating piece of news that I heard last week was a report filed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Woman Tells of Congo Murders (RealAudio file) Fifty people from this woman's village were captured by the Interahamwe, armed Hutu militia from Rwanda who were involved in the genocide in...
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Peanut Butter Jelly Time

To answer Slayve's question, it'd be best to watch this instructional video: Brian, in a banana suit, holding maracas (from Family Guy). According to a Wikipedia entry, "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" is a Flash animation that emerged in the early 2000s and became an Internet phenomenon. Based on a song of the same...
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Where the Hell Is Your WoW Character?

Last year, I blogged about the musical genre known as wizard rock, which is music based on the Harry Potter universe. This year, well, today, a friend caught me up to speed on World of Warcraft (affectionately called Warcrack), the massively multiplayer online game. I'd asked him about it because...
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Daemons

While reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, I'd wondered what kind of daemon I'd have if they so existed. In the book, a daemon is an outward, physical manifestation of a person's soul. It appears as an animal that reflects a person's true nature. A friend who introduced...
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