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Quickies June 18, 2013
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A Freakishly Prescient True Blood Parody from Sesame Street

Last night, a Facebook friend shared a Sesame Street clip from 2010 that parodied HBO’s “True Blood“, calling it “True Mud”. As you’ll see below, it’s a whole lesson in things that rhyme with mud, and it’s silly and cute. It’s also weirdly psychic, as you’ll see after the break (spoilers through Season 5 below).

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Quickies June 15, 2013
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Spock Squared Makes Everything Funnier

I very, very, very rarely notice car commercials. And they never influence me on what sort of car I’d like to drive. But despite them being way out of our price range, I totally want an Audi after seeing this Young Spock/Old Spock commercial, spotted by our friends at Mighty Mega:

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Reviews June 14, 2013
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Man of Steel Film Review – Sequels Likely

Superman Returns often feels like an homage rewarding viewers of the previous four Superman films with many references, inside jokes and related scenes. Man of Steel is a re-focusing of Clark’s personal journey growing up (mostly through flashbacks during his often traumatic experiences) while revealing his detailed background from his home planet, Krypton. Audiences get [...]

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Editorials, Gaming June 12, 2013
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PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One, Round 2

After getting a good look at the PlayStation 4 plus more information and a better view of the Xbox One at E3, consumers can make more informed decisions leading up to the upcoming holiday release of both next-gen consoles. The biggest element, as usual, is price with the PS4 coming in at $399 – $100 less [...]

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Music Diary, News, Quickies June 7, 2013
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Check Out the New Nine Inch Nails Song ‘Come Back Haunted’

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Nine Inch Nails is back! Trent Reznor’s ‘band’ (he is the only official member) has been making industrial rock for 25 years now, and each release has had something of interest. Most reknowned for their work in the 1990s such as ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ and ‘Downward Spiral’, Reznor also created the music and effects for [...]

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Giveaways, Reviews May 25, 2013
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RockDoc Bluetooth by Pitbull Small in Size, Big in Sound

A few weeks ago Dr Ruth came to speak at my synagogue. She was awesome- funny, interesting, quick on her feet and, most of all, nice. Seriously, Dr Ruth is one of those amazingly sweet people. Along the way I learned a lot about Dr Ruth- not the least of which was the fact that she [...]

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Reviews May 24, 2013
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Fast & Furious 6 Film Review

The ‘bigger is better’ filmmaking mantra works as this monstrous action-racing film series keeps upgrading with Fast & Furious 6 (a.k.a. Furious 6). The featured film gear this time is a special device called the “Nightshade”, which can disable power in a large area. Other featured gear in the film include  special electronic discs (relating [...]

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Gaming, News May 22, 2013
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Popcornflix Partnership Enhances Digital Movie Xbox 360 Application

The popcorn keeps expanding at the Popcornflix movie streaming service, as Unicorn Media, a leading Internet video solutions provider, announced partnerships with Cypress and Screen Media Ventures, LLC for expanding the free Popcornflix app on Xbox LIVE (gold subscribers).  Popcornflix also owns and distributes its own content via iOS and Android apps, Roku, connected TVs [...]

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Gaming, News May 21, 2013
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Microsoft’s Xbox One Initial Presentation – Technology That Will Step Behind the Curtain and Let You Take Center Stage

“The beginning of truly intelligent TV”… “A huge day for all entertainment”… These are some of the memorable quotes from today’s Microsoft Xbox announcement presentation, which included two female media executives sharing the stage, military dogs in the next Call of Duty game, Steven Spielberg, exclusive sport partnerships, and, mostly importantly, the “All in One” [...]

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Deals, Music Diary, Quickies May 13, 2013
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Stream Daft Punk’s New Album “Random Access Memories” on iTunes This Week!

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My son is a HUGE Daft Punk fan, something he got as part of his introduction into the electronica world – courtesy of me. The group is one of the most influential in electronic pop, with people like Skrillex and Deadmau5 owing them a huge debt. The last recording they released was the soundtrack for [...]

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News May 13, 2013
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Chris Hadfield Says Goodbye to the ISS in a Really Cool Way.

How many ways can you say goodbye?  Just waving or saying goodbye is one of the first things we learn as we’re growing up.  There’s almost no wrong way to do it.  We’ve all done it.  However not many of us have said goodbye to the ISS and it’s crew.  International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield did a cover of David [...]

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Gaming, Reviews May 13, 2013
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Star Trek: The Video Game Review on PlayStation 3

This third person action-shooter game takes place after the high quality 2009 Star Trek film and before this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. Single player and cooperative/multiplayer (online and offline in split screen) modes are available. The Hype The award-winning Star Trek game casts players for the first time ever as Kirk and Spock in [...]

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News May 13, 2013
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Popcornflix™ Launches Free Movie App for New BlackBerry 10 Platform

While it is not clear if BlackBerry will be able to dig themselves out of the hole in which they currently find themselves with the deploy of their new Z10 (And if you want to know more about that device, be sure not to miss Judie’s absolutely epic review!), it’s a good sign that they’re [...]

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Quickies May 8, 2013
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TiVo’s Exclusively Terrible Offer

In 2006, I bought a TiVo Series 2. It was a great device, and it lasted me until mid-2011, when it finally stopped changing channels and went on strike. It retired to that great recycling center in the sky/the next town over, and we moved on to bigger and better electronics. TiVo however, sends me [...]

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News May 7, 2013
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DTS Announces DTS-HD Audio Enhancement Technology

DTS has just announced a key collaboration with Best Buy and Samsung as it rolls out their DTS-HD technology in a rather big way. DTS-HD is a high performance discrete audio codec that has been designed to enable streaming services like Best Buy’s CinemaNow to deliver content immersive 5.1 surround sound. As Brian Towne, chief [...]

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