I know many of you will appreciate this:
the GOP field as Buffy villains.

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My free XBox Live account expires soon. For about two weeks of my free month, XBox Live has been acting flaky. I would be annoyed if I actually used the service, but I don’t, and so I’m not. It does make it slightly less likely to pay the subscription fee, but only slightly. After all, [...]

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Start My Game points out that Microsoft is putting more barriers in the way of XBox Live Silver users accessing content. (XBox Live Silver: the free online account.) I’m not really clear on what the XBox Live thing gives me, but it seems to primarily be access to multiplayer online gaming and downloadable demos. And [...]

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Before I start talking about the XBox 360’s features specifically, I want to talk about the interface itself — seen here in a click-to-enlarge screenshot. The XBox 360 and the Wii are the first video game systems I’ve owned that have a kind of operating system you’re expected to interact with. The PS2 had one, [...]

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At first it was Lynn Winstead, Chuck D and
Rachel Maddow. And then Air America shook its lineup up, eased Winstead and Chuck D out of the door, and gave Maddow the morning slot. A few months later, they shook things up again and gave her the drive home. The schedule changes didn’t make any [...]

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