The November, 2004 Archive

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Exploding Cell Phones!

11.23.04 ø Comments Off
Ok, this is kind of scary. Curtis Sathre said it was like a bomb going off. His 13-year-old son Michael stood stunned, ears ringing, hand gushing blood after his cell phone exploded. Safety officials have received 83 reports of cell phones exploding or catching fire in the past two years, usually because of bad batteries or [...]

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World of Warcraft

11.23.04 ø 1
Hallelujah! :bouncy: A new MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) is out for Warcraft fans! World of Warcraft is an intense online RPG that mirrors the awesomeness of Blizzard Entertainment's original Warcraft game in a whole new light. It has been multiplayer before, but the only other online game that I've wanted to play [...]

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Cooking Hazards

11.21.04 ø Comments Off
I tried to cook some fish today for lunch, flounder to be exact, in oil on a skillet. I thawed the filet, covered it in flour and heated the oil. Then I proceeded to flip the fish onto the skillet. My lesson learned today was to never "flip" something into a pan of seriously hot [...]

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National Treasure

11.21.04 ø Comments Off
This film had the potential to be either really good or really lame, depending on how the makers pulled it off. When I saw the trailer for the first time other movies like The Mummy and Ocean's 11 popped up in my mind because of the historical twist and grand theft heist that seemed related. [...]

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Novel Rage

11.19.04 ø Comments Off
Kurt Vonnegut says: "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."

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CSI: Good for Science?

11.18.04 ø Comments Off
Geek news site Slashdot has risen the question of whether CSI, and it's two spin-offs, are actually good models of what forensic science really is. On the one hand, they've caused a boom in the popularity of forensic science college courses, and they glamorize geeks bent over microscopes, rather than smarmy lawyers. On the other hand, they [...]

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