The Simple Dollar » Personal Finance Management on a Biweekly Pay Schedule (7)
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Many workers in the United States receive their paychecks every two weeks - many federal and state employees are in this group. At the same time, most bills and payments that people make are paid on a monthly basis. This creates an interesting situation. Over the course of a year, there will be two months where an individual will receive three paychecks - occasionally, when the calendar lines up, there will be three months in ...
Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Republicans (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1)
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For years, American politics has been in a state of disrepair. For one, the previously tacit youth had held a mask in front of their face, a mask of apathy which affected their successors more than their own phony selves (Note: the apathy WAS a mask, as our Gen-X elders elected Bill Clinton twice with record youth and black voter turn-outs). This mask said that the enormity of the electorate rendered any one vote meaningless. ...
McCain Winning Coveted "Stock Photos" Demographic? (7)
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This was sent in by a reader: apparently, the Republicans couldn't find very many African American supporters to show on the Big Screen Of Triumph, when introducing McCain (see 6:45, 7:02)... so they simply put up stock photos of black people. You know, riding bicycles and appreciating their moms and stuff. Both these images appeared in McCain's introduction, but you can also buy them for a buck or two from iStockphoto.com: They're fickle people. For ...
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Brendinho said:
haha if these jokers win the White House I'm out for real this time.
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darrellsilver said:
Oh, how difficult it is to be the director of these movies. I wonder if Obama's intro movie was as hokie?
More Community Organizers (1)
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“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.” -Sarah Palin, denigrating me and all of my neighbors. Here are some other community organizers, people that Sarah Palin feels don’t do anythign for their communities. This useless fellow is Ben Franklin. A community organizer in Philadelphia, Franklin helped fight the American Revolution. He also established the first fire department, the first library?, and the fire insurance ...
Cognitive Dissonance (13)
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FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right (131)
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Virtually all of the conservative commentariat, and a greater-than-would-care-to-admit-it share of the liberal commentariat think that Sarah Palin hit a home run tonight. I guess I'm just going to have to stick my neck out (along with Josh Marshall) and disagree.You can tar-and-feather me with this later if I'm wrong. I will make this disclaimer: I'm not necessarily offering a prediction about how the polls are going to move over the next several days. Almost ...
Palin's Speech: Second Thoughts (4)
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The way to evaluate a speech like this is by what people are going to remember in the morning, and the only thing that people are going to remember about this speech in the morning is that she went after Obama -- a lot -- and that at times it it seemed fairly personal. It was almost kind of fun at first -- I don't think people saw it coming, and she got three or ...
Captain Obvious: Left 4 Dead kills cutscenes, resurrects gameplay (1)
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Cutscenes? In my Valve games? Not on your sodding life, son. Only one opening cutscene will be in the highly desired zombie shoot 'em up, Left 4 Dead. This scene will introduce the game's major characters and set the zombified scene, but after that it's all in-game, all the time. "We didn't want to have the game game gummed up with a story line," explained Valve's Chet Faliszek. "We wanted to keep it really clean ...
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Brendinho said:
I don't think I could be any more appreciative of that quote: "We didn't want to have the game gummed up with a story line. We wanted to keep it really clean and tight. A zombie apocalypse. It's about killing zombies, not some fable on the reconstruction of humanity." Who the fuck plays video games for the story?
The Idea of Having (11)
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My mother has been out of the hospital for two weeks now. She’s home and recovering well. The past two Sundays, Kris and I have driven down to see her, and the three of us have spent part of the afternoon sorting through mom’s Stuff. “Do you still want this?” I asked mom again and again, holding up an old computer printer, a plaque with a pithy saying, or a calendar from 1998. “No,” she’d ...
Bethesda: Five New Fallout 3 Gameplay Videos (3)
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That's right folks, in highlight of the 45 minute demo Bethesda will be giving of the game tomorrow afternoon at PAX, we got 5 new Fallout 3 gameplay videos to show you. The videos feature five...
Rush's entire Moving Pictures album coming to Rock Band next week as DLC (2)
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It looks like the rumors of Rush's classic Moving Pictures album coming to Rock Band are true. VH1 Classic has run a quick promo spot for the upcoming DLC, and we have the lowest quality video in the world to prove it! The seven track album, originally released in 1981, will be made up entirely of master tracks and includes: "Tom Sawyer" "Red Barchetta" "YYZ" "Limelight" "The Camera Eye" "Witch Hunt" "Vital Signs" That's over ...
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Brendinho said:
omfg
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Mikey said:
Yay! I'm gonna be doing some hardcore downloading and Rock Banding next week!
Exclusive: The first 15 minutes of The Behemoth's Castle Crashers (1)
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[ Not streaming? Upgrade your Flash version. Videos auto-playing? Fix it.] Watch more videos On August 27, The Behemoth's side-scrolling beat-'em-up role-playing game Castle Crashers will finally be available for a cool 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Although the reality is that Castle Crashers has been in the making for "a normal amount of development time," it sure has seemed like forever, hasn't it? But why make the next week of waiting any ...
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Brendinho said:
oh boy. this is going to be awesome.
The White Party. (2)
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"If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party." Looks like Howard Dean, a man who is no stranger to controversy, and who has a reputation of speaking his mind, is at it again. The Reich wing blogs and bushites are all over him for his latest little comment.Howard, I am a little curious ...
Productivity in the crapper: View Geometry Wars leaderboards in your browser (2)
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Well this confirms it: Bizarre Creations would like to ensure that I don't get anything done. Ever. As if it weren't bad enough that I were being trashed talked about my Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 scores via Twitter, the developer has now put the leaderboards online. So now I can access my scores right in my web browser, the place in which I do nearly all of my work. Apologies to my boss in ...
Web-savvy writers (1)
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V!VA Publishing Network is looking for flexible, web-savvy writers to work from its sunny Quito, Ecuador office starting as soon as possible. The positions require a commitment of one year. One role will involve helping to produce guidebooks for a new series including writing, editing and InDesign layout, and keeping the website up to date. The other role will focus on updating the Ecuador Explorer website extensively and writing for other websites. Writing experience is ...
Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread (2)
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TPM has put together a powerful video on John McCain's consistent mental fumbling. God help us all if he's elected president. Now go forth and thread your little hearts away.
Homoerotic Shooter Cho Aniki PSP Bound in Japan | Game | Life from Wired.com (2)
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This week's Famitsu has news that the deliciously wacky side-scrolling series Cho Aniki is heading to the PlayStation Portable. Zero Cho Aniki is reported to be a remake of the first game in a series that has spawned quite a few sequels and spinoffs, following its 1992 debut on the Turbografx (or PC Engine, as it was known in Japan). The port will feature the same kitsch backgrounds as the original, and will also include ...
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Brendinho said:
finally a videogame Rob and Alan can enjoy together...because they are gay
F@%k You Critics!! or On Criticism (1)
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No matter what artistic field you're in, if you do it long enough, someone is going to criticize you for it. Maybe you'll get some "constructive criticism," the kind where the critic isn't after you, and in fact probably likes you, but wants to help you do better. Most likely though, you'll get someone telling you that your music's bad and you should feel bad. These day, playing punk rock is illegal. That is, it ...
The Reality Of Hopelessness. (1)
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"Got my glock cocked, runnin this thing, ya understand We be steamin.. blazin.. nines, pumps, and K's, and Holly Grove 17th, (what) tha hood where I (what) was raised in (what)Niggaz bustin heads and, runnin duckin Feds and rocks under they tongues and, ki's under they beds and Hood fulla real niggaz, twenty-four seven hustlers EHHH, until we shove a barrel down ya pipe suckers Ain't no love for no busta, no fear for no ...
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