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WSJ wants to kill LinkedIn, kills Originality instead.

Mon Aug 3, 2009 9:31 AM EDT

What happened to original thought? What happened to being innovative? What the hell is going on the interwebs these days?

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media, business, newspapers, wall-street-journal, print, techcrunch, social-media, wsj, linkedin, linkedin-killer

Review : Terminator Salvation. Why I hope they will not be back.

Thu May 28, 2009 11:45 AM EDT

McG is in good company with Lucas, Spielberg and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (of Alien: Resurrection infame).

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entertainment, movie-reviews, bale, terminator, mcg, john-connor, sarah-connor, terminator-salvation, t-800

Review : Star Trek : How Abrams & Co managed to overcome their own Kobiyashi Maru scenario.

Thu May 7, 2009 1:07 PM EDT

Star Trek, the reboot, was at best, a bold gamble by J. J. Abrams & Co. If they screwed the pooch on this, the wrath of the rabid Trekkies (like me) would descend on their collective hides like the Borg Cube at Wolf 359.

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entertainment, bones, star-trek, enterprise, kirk, scotty, spock, jj-abrams, nimoy, bana

Newspapers begin their mass exodus to digital.

Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:02 PM EDT

It has begun and it is not pretty.

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media, business, digital, newspaper

5 Reasons Zombies keep me awake at night. Left 4 Dead PC game review.

Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:38 AM EST

Every night the Infected come, a tsunami of mindless decaying flesh, driven by the need to annihilate the Survivors.

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entertainment, valve, pc-games, game-reviews, left-4-dead

Disgusting bathroom habits, advertising awards & Kiwi Kleen.

Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:18 AM EST

Stylized looks, cool graphics, single line of copy - and a really really clean layout. Oh, my, this can only mean one thing - it is time for THE AWARDS.

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business, advertising, adverts, advertising-awards, kiwi-kleen, advertising-egency, scam-ads

Call of Duty 5 : World at War. More of the same, but in a good way.

Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:59 AM EST

Call of Duty 5 : World at War (CoD5) is one of those frustrating games where there are a lot of things to like, a few brilliant executions, but somehow due to some dodgy design decisions, the game isn't all that it can be.

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entertainment, pc-games, fps, cod, game-review, modern-warfare, cod4, call-of-duty-5, world-at-war

Toyota redefines ad-nauseum. Monday Night Football fans not amused.

Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:06 AM EST

Television viewers are generally a docile bunch, at the given time, they will meekly go and sit in front of the Television, faces raised, eyes bright and a loose grin on their faces. A few have known to drool, but that is purely unsubstantiated.

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business, toyota, advertising, television, espn, spam, monday-night-football, automobiles, adverts

Movie Review : Quantum of Solace. Bond or Bourne?

Fri Nov 7, 2008 10:04 AM EST

More than any movie this year, even more than The Dark Knight, I had high expectations for Quantum of Solace. Casino Royale blew me away and I wanted more of that Bond.

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entertainment, daniel-craig, james-bond, casino-royale, judi-dench, movies, reviews, olga-kurylenko, quantum-of-solace

Call of Duty 5 : World at War Multiplayer Beta PC Review

Sat Nov 1, 2008 1:18 PM EDT

Anyone expecting Call of Duty 5 to be a squeal to Call of Duty 4 :Modern Warfare were disappointed when Treyarch announced that COD5 would go back once again to WWII. Treyarch already has experience with developing COD squeals so they aren't quite strangers to the franchise.

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5 Reasons why Max Payne is just a minor rash.

Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:49 AM EDT

In 2001 a rare atmospheric game came out that paid homage to film noirs, John Woo and unusually for a game had an excellent plot. The game was named after the tormented character Max Payne, and his troubled monologue kept the story moving until the explosive end.

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entertainment, games, movie-review, mark-wahlberg, max-payne, spoiler-free

The Sarah Connor Chronicles - How not to get the show Terminated!

Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:45 PM EDT

Four episodes into the 2nd season, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has seemingly found it's North Star and is steering in the right direction, barring a few squalls and some impatient studio executives, it should prove to be a good season.

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entertainment, television, cameron, terminator, john-connor, terminator-the-sarah-connor-chronicles, josh-friedman

Movie Review : Eagle Eye IMAX is a soaring action-thriller.

Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:30 PM EDT

Eagle Eyes is a perfect fix at a time when we are caught in the doldrums between block-buster seasons of summer and the holiday season. Hollywood did extremely well this summer with the likes of Dark Knight, Iron Man and The Hulk - all of them from various comic franchise.

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entertainment, review, movies, imax, eagle-eye, shia-labeouf, spoiler-free, d-j-caruso, michelle-monagha, michael-chiklis

Crysis Warhead : For more epic action.

Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:46 PM EDT

Crysis, when it came out made big news and started one of the lesser known internet memes of; "But will it run Crysis?" because of its sadomasochistic and sky-high system requirements.

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entertainment, games, review, drm, pc-games, ea, crysis, spore, crysis-warhead

Batman : The Dark Knight at the IMAX : 5 Great reasons to go see it.

Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:58 AM EDT

You have to know, before you go see The Dark Knight that, it is not a Batman movie. Despite having all the Batman stuff and characters it is not a Batman movie, at least not like anything you have seen; including Batman Begins.

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entertainment, heath-ledger, maggie-gyllenhaal, morgan-freeman, movie-review, batman-begins, imax, gary-oldman, michael-caine, aaron-eckhart

Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army. A very light veener of gold.

Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:40 AM EDT

The gold of Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army wears thin very quickly despite the fact that I liked Hellboy (2004). In fact I liked it a lot, and casting Ron Perlman as Hellboy was a genius move by Guillermo del Toro.

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entertainment, people, gibson, mel-gibson, guillermo-del-toro, selma-blair, ron-perlman, hellboy-2, the-golden-army, abe-sapian

Why Apple should kill off iPhone (No, not the iPhone 3G)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:59 AM EDT

The hype is on. People are lined up in front of Apple's swanky New York store. Some are already calling it a successful launch. The internet is abuzz, at least for blogs and sites that care about such things. But not everyone is excited about the iPhone 3G launch.

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business, apple, ipod, at, marketing, mac, iphone, iphone-3g

Movie Review : Wanted. A hit in disguise.

Fri Jul 4, 2008 11:58 AM EDT

It happens quite often with movies these days, the trailer had already hinted what this movie was all going to be about.

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entertainment, angelina-jolie, wanted, morgan-freeman, movie-review, james-mcavoy, timur-bekmambetov

The Incredible Hulk; a great stomping movie.

Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:26 AM EDT

Righteous butt kicking is what is promised by The Incredible Hulk and this time it delivers in spades. I am not a fan of the Hulk comics but I am glad I went to see this movie, because at the least it is a great action movie, at the most, as a superhero movie, it simply rocks.

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entertainment, avengers, marvel-comics, the-incredible-hulk, iron-man, louis-leterrier, ed-norton, robert-downey-jr, spoiler-free

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Crystal Skull is a great yet familiar ride.

Thu May 22, 2008 2:03 PM EDT

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull (Indy 4) could easily have been called Indiana Jones and the Ode to the First Three Movies and I still would have happily gone and seen it. There are so many nods – from characters, items, dialogs, situations.

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Cyclone Nargis : The making of a Perfect Disaster

Sat May 10, 2008 7:48 AM EDT

There is something final about a disaster. A disaster is an absolute; it is a point in time where things change suddenly, irrevocably.

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disaster, myanmar, world-news, burma, military-government, cyclone-nargis, irawaddy, ayawaddy

Movie Review : Iron Man. Solid Gold!

Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:00 PM EDT

I wanted more. I wanted more of Robert Downey Jr, I wanted more of Tony Stark, I wanted more of Iron Man, and I wanted more of Iron Man kicking butt, I wanted more more more. I wanted more and can't wait for the sequel.

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entertainment, movies, reviews, marvel-comics, iron-man, robert-downey-jr, spoiler-free, john-favreau

Shaky hands and even shakier creative ideas

Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:59 AM EDT

There is no such thing as originality in advertising.

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business, advertising, cameras, anti-shake, adverts

Playing coy just doesn't work for Canon EOS

Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:16 AM EDT

I really wanted to like these ads. I really did.

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technology, china, advertising, canon, nikon, adverts, eos, dentsu

Because the world needs another Cola. And it's all Bull.

Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:34 AM EDT

We may not have known it, but apparently we needed another Cola. And the reason we would want to drink it? Because it is 'natural.' That is the premise behind Red Bull's introduction of the innovatively named Red Bull Cola.

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business, cola, soft-drinks, red-bull, new-products, csd

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He has been in the marketing communication industry for the last decade and prior to that was in the hotel business. Between work and playing with his …

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