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• Commented on Get Out Sunday: <em>The Battle of Algiers</em> at SIFF Cinema
  It's a very powerful movie. Even more so when you consider that the Neocons in the whitehouse put on a private viewing BEFORE the Iraq invasion. Go put it to the top of your netflix list. Like some powerful great...
• Commented on Seattle's First Blogger, Anita Rowland, Dead at 51
  She was a good friend of mine and was a genuine wonderful person....
• Commented on Sleater-Kinney Guitarist On Rock Band
  What is the point of playing Super Mario Bros? When you can walk outside and smash a real turtle with your foot? I mean I can punch a brick wall with my fist and a bunch of coins and a...
• Commented on Ask a Mac Nerd: What's the Deal with <em>Leopard</em>?
  Not just animals.. They are names after preditory cats. They are development codenames that stuck and are pretty cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OSX "Mac OS X versions are named after big cats. Prior to its release, version 10.0 was code named "Cheetah" internally...
• Commented on Ask a Mac Nerd: What's the Deal with <em>Leopard</em>?
  Actually Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was meant to compete with Vista. Apple has a new OS version about every 18 months while Microsoft is averaging about six years or so between major releases (Filled with a hell of a...