It’s hard to believe that Star Trek is 45 years old. Looking back at everything that’s influenced me over the years in a creative sense, it was Star Trek more than anything that drove me as far back as I can remember.
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Sometime around July I wanted to make a list of the changes to the Star Wars Trilogy that I thought were good and bad. I decided to wait until the Blu-Rays were released before creating this list. Now that the Blu-Rays are almost here, some eager beavers were diligent enough to discover what the new changes are and post them on the internet. Listed below in no particular order are those changes.
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The iPad was once called the “Jesus tablet”, but it seems now that the title firmly belongs to the HP Touchpad.
When HP killed the Touchpad a few weeks ago and dropped the prices of the 16/32GB models to $99/$149 respectively, the demand for them was extraordinary. What was once considered a doorstop was once of the most sought-after tablets in recent months. What was the reason for the demand? With the iPad in the $500 range, a $99 tablet looked like a steal. Despite the bad hardware that webOS ran on, the Touchpad is a very capable tablet, and webOS is very solid.
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As listeners to the Geekistry podcast know, I am a die-hard Marvel comics universe fan – my favorites being Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men titles. As much as I love keeping up with this colorful, super powered soap opera I often find myself going long stretches of time between story arcs. Lack of money, lack of time, and combinations of the two derail my efforts – and when I get the opportunity to get back to the books, I find that I’m 3 epic crossovers and 7 storylines behind the curve and have no idea what’s going on. Where’s Hulk? Luke Cage is back? Spiderman is NOT married to Mary Jane? WTF?
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