Archive for February, 2009

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You Can Take Our Lives, But You Will Never Take Our Triple Quilted

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

Photo by Angela Natividad, sourced from here

By Darryl Mason
Look, for more than two hundred million people or more, it’s not going to be a lot of fun being an American in the next few years. Life is likely to get pretty grim, financially for starters. Basically, […]

Tecmo Stackers: the chain reaction puzzle game

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits.
Click ahead to watch.

Similar to Puyo Puyo, the object here is to clear a number of the blocks with goofy expressions on them and then dump the results on your opponent’s side in the form of glass balls by causing chain reactions, first by clearing […]

Streets of Rage video

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits.
In six recordings:

This was the first of a series of beat-em-ups Sega made specially for the home consoles. 3 police officers fight to defeat an evil crime syndicate that’s conquered their city. It may have been inspired by Final Fight, and if memory serves, the […]

Filming of Final Star Force

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits.
Right after the click.

The sequel to Star Force has even better graphics, and is a lot of fun.

Bermuda Triangle brief

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits.
Right after the jump.

A nice looking shoot-em-up set in the ocean around the title area. I like how the designers thought to put in some submarines as enemies. In Japan, the game is called World Wars.

Pocket Fighter posting

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits.
Whoa, here’s something entertaining: a combo video of a special cartoony version of Street Fighter, where the characters appear in miniaturized format! Take a look.

Some of these stunts are downright hilarious, and it’s quite amusing how they draw even Zangieff in that mini-cartoon design. Simply […]

Consensus Economic Forecasts

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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog

A couple of folks have asked if my forecast, described here, is out in left field. That prompts me to offer a comparison of my economic outlook to two survey averages. The Wall Street Journal surveys (subscription required) 54 professional forecasters, mostly from financial institutions. […]

Goin’ to Kansas City: Economics Blogger Forum

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
I’m blogging from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, which is getting hammered with a snowstorm that is supposed to be the biggest of the year. If the weather cooperates, I’ll leave shortly for the Economics Blogger Forum in Kansas City, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation.According to the Kauffman Foundation:
Economic […]

AXTI: Shares Decline on Q4 Results and Weak Q1 Outlook

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
By Fain Hughes, fhughes@knobias.com
Shares of AXT, Inc. (AXTI) declined during Thursday’s session after the Company reported its financial results yesterday for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.
Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $15.6 million, compared with $17.9 million in the third […]

Market Alert: ABVI Still Climbing Now Up 31%

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[?]Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com
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Market Alert: PXCE Up 241% in the Past 30 Days

Rating 4.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com
Small Cap Market Update from SmallCapVoice.com
New Mobile Technology Breakthrough Company is about to Hit Market
An LOI was released under the ticker “PXCE,” announcing a merger with a yet unnamed global mobile tech company to be finalized in the next few weeks. Details are forth-coming, yet activity is increasing as […]

Movie Preview: Inglorious Basterds

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Movies and Film Blog
Written by Michael Vass
Going in a totally different direction I saw the trailer for Inglorious Basterds. This is the latest film from director Quentin Tarantino. So be prepared to have your ears assaulted by profanity and your eyes by violence.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like […]

Movie Preview: Mutant Chronicles

Rating 3.50 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Movies and Film Blog
Written by Michael Vass
Some movies look good. Some movies have great plots. And then there are movies that are modified copies of some other form of entertainment. That could be a remake, a revisioned television show or book, a comic book or video game to movie […]

Classic Rock Videos

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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
This Boy - The Beatles

Album Cover Art

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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Continuing our feature about album cover art, we have finished up with Molly Hatchet and move on to a classic release and cover by Dr. John.
DR. JOHN IN THE RIGHT PLACE

Start with the Meters, whose hard funk is so efficient there’s not a wasted note or […]

Music News & Notes

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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Mike Farris releases live album in April
Soulful gospel voice Mike Farris will release a live album, dubbed Mike Farris SHOUT! LIVE, on April 14 via INO/Columbia records.
The set, which collects highlights from his regular Sunday Night Shout stops at Nashville’s cozy Station Inn with his band […]

Music review: …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead - “The Century of Self”

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Mike Farris releases live album in April
Soulful gospel voice Mike Farris will release a live album, dubbed Mike Farris SHOUT! LIVE, on April 14 via INO/Columbia records.
The set, which collects highlights from his regular Sunday Night Shout stops at Nashville’s cozy Station Inn with his band […]

Blues Hall of Fame Announces 2009 Inductees

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
The Blues Hall of Fame has named its 2009 inductees which are led by the great Irma Thomas and Taj Mahal. The induction ceremony will be held at The Blues Foundation’s Charter Member Dinner on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at the Memphis Marriott Downtown in Memphis, […]

This Date In Music History-February 26

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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Birthdays:
Paul Cotton – Poco (1943)
Fats Domino turns 81.
Mitch Ryder (”Devil With A Blue Dress“) is 64.
Sandie Shaw (1947)
Erykah Badu (1971)
Michael Bolton (1953)

They Are Missed:
Bob “The Bear” Hite, vocalist and harmonica player with Canned Heat, was born in 1945. He died on April 5, 1981.
Bluesman Booker T. […]

Fertility Consultations

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Fertility Acupuncturist Blog

Amelia’s Fertility Consultations Helped me get Pregnant
I highly recommend Amelia Hirota’s fertility consultations. I did fertility consultations with Amelia for 9 months and I am happy to report that I became pregnant naturally. I am 41 years old and currently 22 weeks pregnant with a healthy baby […]

The Nuclear Comeback

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[?]Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
The natural gas crisis caused by the cutoff of supplies from Russia earlier in the year crystallized for many nations the threat of being overly dependent on another country for their energy supplies. Over the past decades, countries in Europe have shut down nuclear reactors, which caused […]

World Class Poetry’s First Guest Blogger

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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
A few days ago I put out an invitation for guest bloggers. I immediately had a few nibbles on the hook of my line and it wasn’t long before one of the mud cats snagged it good. Yes, I have my first guest blogger.
His name is […]

Addicted To Poetry

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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
Here’s a quickie: I found a cool website where you can search for a topic and create an instant page with multiple resources. I typed in “poetry” and got this.

New Poet?

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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
Are you an inspiring poet looking for direction to take your ideas from your head to the page? Then click here to visit the Literary Mamm Blog: Poetry for the People to read details about award-winning poet Sage Cohen’s class.
There is a nearly two hundred dollar fee.
Disclaimer: […]

Invisible Ink

Rating 3.00 out of 5

[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
And my hands rest quiet on the keys
summoning no numbers to dance, no words to sing
building no report on the state of the world
from raw data or realized metaphor.
If I ever captured truth, it wasn’t in the words
but in the space between them. It follows that
a […]

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