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FCC closer to allowing XM/Sirius merger, but not without throwing shit into mix

According to Twice the long awaited* XM/Sirius merger is closer to approval from the FCC. Unfortunately they have decided to throw a wrench into the gears with a some bullshit additional requests…

The conditions would require the merged company to include HD Radio on any satellite radio product it subsidizes that also includes an AM/FM tuner, according to an Associated Press report. Stipulations would also include a six-year freeze on service fees and that Sirius and XM devote 25 percent of spectrum to minority and public-interest programming, said the AP. Adelstein’s staff could not confirm the conditions at press time. read more

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ArtsNow.com: Shirt Review Part 1

The other week on /m/ a link to ArtsNow.com appeared along with a few nifty coupons. Taking the opportunity I ‘designed’ a few shirts and placed an order. A week and a half later a bag arrived on my doorstop, a customs declared gift, complete with return address to a random Hong Kong P.O. box. This is the story of those shirts…

About the Designs

For the designs I used some nice vectors with transparent backgrounds. If you’re interested…

Team Gurren Logo (Gurren Lagann) (close, looking for original version)
Kitten (Gurren Lagann) [I Plan to upload soon] Whole Group (Gurren Lagann) [I Plan to upload soon] Skull Squadron Logo minus Shield & Sword (Macross Frontier)
Sector 9 Logo (Ghost in the Shell) read more

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Ways today’s youth sounds like completely uneducated apes (oh and please stop…)

Grammar. Punctuation. Spelling. Verb usage. Common Sense.

What has happened to these five terms? The more and more I browse the Internet, the more and more I regret doing so. I have always known the general public of this country to be less than scholarly, but the younger generation (even younger than me) makes me fearful of the future. This may be harsh (and possibly exaggerated for effect), however it needs to be said because it holds grains of truth – for more than one reason.

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“F**k You” “No, Fuck You!”

Fuck

Of the 600,000 plus words in the English language fuck is probably one of the most versatile and the most used. Yet for some bloody reason it remains the most censored, something I can’t quite wrap my head around it.

I could go go on and on about how words are simply sounds clumped together for communication. I could go on and on about how these hodgepodges of noise mean nothing without the meaning behind them, their syntax and situation, their semantics. That, however, is really for another time and place. (In this case, another article)

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Jokers are Wild!

Can everyone please stop attacking Nicholson’s Joker just because there’s a new Joker in town? I know that Nicholson gets this reputation for “Jack playing Jack”, but anyone who’s ever picked up a Batman comic with the Joker in it in the past decade or so and has seen Nicholson’s performance should see that he was pretty dead on: a psychotic, sadistic, egotistical mass murderer with a flair for the theatrical. Will the late Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight surpass this?

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RIP Don S. Davis

Don S. Davis, best known in his roll as Major General George Hammond in the TV series Stargate SG-1 has passed. It occurred early on Sunday, June 29th due to a massive heart attack.

After spending seven seasons as a main character on SG-1 Davis left due to health reasons while returning from time to time for guest appearances. Following his death his wife passed along the following message to fans…

“Dear Fans and Friends of Don S. Davis,

So many of you have been touched by not only the work and art of Don S. Davis, but by the man himself, who always took the time to be with you at the appearances he loved, that it is with a tremendous sense of loss I must share with you that Don passed away from a massive heart attack on Sunday morning, June 29th. read more

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Gurren Lagan Parallel Works #3

Parallel Works’ third episode is now viewable online…

http://www.gurren-lagann-movie.net/gurrepala/interview/flash.html

While the music is great, it sucks compared to last weeks pinball (okay, not pinball, but the weird Japanese casino game with the balls shit) was better.