Every year, in the wake of overstuffed stomachs full of Thanksgiving mashed potatos, pumpkin pie and tryptophan, the denizens of the United States of America arise from their football drunken slumber to attend Black Friday, a quasi-holiday born out of immense consumerism and passed off as preparation for the holiday season. Black Friday is the
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Nov 2005
YubNub, the (social) command-line for the web. YubNub is a command-line for the web. After setting it up on your browser, you simply type “gim porsche 911” to do a Google Image Search for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type “random 49” to return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of random.org. And
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Nov 2005
HBO is a for-pay premium channel available in the US which has spawned shows such The Sopranos and Sex & the City, as well as some really good joint-BBC ventures such as Rome & Extras. They’ve teamed up with PBS to produce their latest original movie, Yesterday, a movie about a South African mother who’s
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Nov 2005
Have you seen these posts on ClickNathan? Oppression and (as promised). You may or may not agree with him, but you can’t deny he does have some good arguments… Oh yeah, and if you have something to say, leave your opinions under his articles, not here. He earned ’em. Unless you want to leave a
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Wow I have such a mixture of emotions today. I was meant to spend my first Thanksgiving with Nathan’s whole family, cozying up with him, eating all kinds of vegetarian delights prepared by his lovely mom and celebrating my first proper snow with him. Instead I’m stuck at home working on a frighteningly impossible amount