Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Aug 13 2011

L.A. Noire is good. Really good.

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Film, Video games

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LA Noire Box Art

Judging whether Rockstar's latest, LA Noire is artistically successful hinges on two things. The first is whether it fits into the genre its purports. The second is whether it does so well. The answers are yes, and hell yes. Film noir wasn't so much a genre as it was a movement, spanning the 1940s and …

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May 18 2011

People, we are heading off a cliff!

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Politics

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Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently said in an interview with CNBC that our creditors would accept the US defaulting on its debt "for a day or two or three or four". Ryan is widely considered to be the intellectual leader of the GOP, so much so that Newt Gingrich was recently prompted to apologize to …

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May 10 2011

A lie about Social Security that won't go away

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Politics

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Source: Social Security Administration

People like Alan Simpson and Rick Santorum want to cut Social Security benefits because, as Simpson says, It was never intended as a retirement program. It was set up in ‘37 and ‘38 to take care of people who were in distress -- ditch diggers, wage earners -- it was to give them 43 percent …

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Apr 25 2011

New PPP poll on Civil War outcome is a doozy

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General

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In a poll released today, PPP revealed what southerners from former confederate states (Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia) think about the outcome of the Civil War. This is ugly. GA NC MS Glad North won 53% 48% 34% Wish South had won 23% 21% 27% Not sure 24% 31% 39% Looking at the crosstabs and …

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Mar 11 2011

Clear gender bias in American Idol voting

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General

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If it seems like American Idol always turns into a sausage fest, it's probably because it really does. If you're a female singer, you have only slightly more than a 30% chance of reaching the top 2 under the current rules. I compiled data from Wikipedia on the gender makeup of remaining finalists on all …

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