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Netflix Goes Blu-ray Exclusive

Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:31 AM EST (Reuters)

Yet another bad sign for HD-DVD. Netflix is a huge rental company...dropping HD-DVD might upset a few customers, but odds are, this is one more step to HD-DVD being gone.

entertainment, netflix, movies, hd-dvd, blu-ray

A Decade of Duke: The Brief Long History of DNF

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:00 PM EST (Shacknews)

It's taken longer to develop than the mapping of the human genome. It's the first Google result for "When it's done." It's birthed the longest running development period in video game history, and the longest running joke in internet history. It's still not out.

entertainment, games, videogames, duke-nukem, dnf, vaporware

Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2007 9:30 AM EDT (CNET)

Further strengthening of punishments for violating IP laws proposed by everyone's favorite attorney general. Of particular note was this gem: "Create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software.

politics, alberto-gonzales, motion-picture-association, digital-millennium-copyright-acts, recording-industry-association, intellectual-property-protection-act, piracy, downloading

Illegal Immigration is caused by abortion?!??!

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:46 AM EST (The Washington Post)

A Republican-led panel suggests abortion is to blame for the influx of illegal immigrants. Wow, I'm not even sure what to say to that.

politics, abortion, immigration, republican, trent-skaggs

Violent Videogames = Violent Children?

Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:40 PM EDT ()

I can't say I agree with most of their findings, but since the only arguement I can supply against them is anecdotal, I thought this might be a good discussion.

entertainment, media, violence, children, videogames, grand-theft-auto

Atheist or Agnostic?

Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:50 AM EDT

Discussed earlier in Adam Kemp's poll regarding religion was his choice of lumping Atheist and Agnostic together in the choice of religions. As many have discussed, the two are thought by some to be one and the same, by others to be completely different.

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