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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May 09 2009

Stossel does it again (food irradiation)

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Science, TV

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Caught the John Stossel special last night. Although his segments about tiger farming and about letting risk-taking mountain climbers pay for their rescues were a little silly, the segments about food irradiation, old people perpetrating a Ponzi scheme through Medicare, and letting people use steroids if they want to were dead on. Especially on food …

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May 03 2009

The Force could be real

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Science

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The Force, from the Star Wars universe, is probably the coolest idea anyone has come up with in modern days. I don't know that it justifies the absurd amount of money that George Lucas has, or ought to give him license to go on making shitty movies and games about it, but it's awfully resonant …

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May 03 2009

A classic Bernard Herman story

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Film

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ok, so I'm an NPR-listening lefty. Anyway, I was surprised to find no reference on the web to this classic story that Henry Sheehan told on Airtalk's Filmweek (which I highly recommend) about Oscar-winning composer Bernard Herman: A director poked his head into the scoring stage where Herman was conducting the score he had written. …

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Mar 16 2009

3360 x 1050 bitches

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Computing

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My desktop takes up my whole desktop. Seriously.

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Feb 27 2009

House of the Dead: Overkill is a triumph

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Video games

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It's interesting to be around for the birth of a new artistic medium. What is ugly nonsense to those older folks who did not grow up with it is wondrous and relevant to those who did. Film developed in much the same way. First monopolized by its inventor, Edison made the first films as uninspired …

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