Apple Drops iPod Shuffle in Colors

Wanna see the new hotness depart from that plain old metal look everyone is so fond of? Now you can catch the iPod shuffle in pink, green, blue, and orange.
UPDATE: iLounge had these babies in as soon as the news dropped, and they released some key tidbits for the new ipods.

The orange color [...]

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Free Textbooks this Semester!

Thank god for SWEM library at William and Mary! I usually would try to purchase my textbooks at Amazon, the WM Bookstore (Barnes and Noble clone), or Abes Books. Fortunately this semester, with about $180 in book purchases to make, I was able to get all five required textbooks for free through my [...]

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Song Structures with Graphviz

I always wanted to figure out the perfect way to illustrate lyrics and the substructures of rhyming and combination schemes (multies). The problem of visually describing what Eminem’s words can do in my mind was a barrier to the book I wanted to write about the patterns and techniques of his lyricisms. Perhaps [...]

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Diet Motivations

I was scrounging around at Digg this morning, and I found this list of 20 impacts American obesity has had. Wow. Here are some of my favorites:
5. From 1991 to 2000, the average weight of Americans increased by 8.5 pounds.
15. Recent studies have shown that obesity can cause you to lose sleep.
19. If [...]

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Addicted to StudiVZ

Well I just cannot believe that I did not get on StudiVZ earlier. Dustin linked me to it this morning and it is changing my whole day. I had heard about it when it first started up, but I never got around to creating a profile because I didn’t have a German university [...]

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Adult Swim for Free (now for Mac)

Torrents are an interesting tide. Suprnova, then PirateBay, now Mininova. One thing none of these sites have, however, is streaming high resolution video. The streaming free versions of television shows from major broadcasters is usually shitty, but adultswim has released Apple-Quicktime-Movie-Trailer-Quality streaming flash videos of their content. And now it works [...]

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Wale!

Absolute insanity. Without a shadow of a doubt, an exciting new direction and chapter for hip hop. I haven’t been this into anybody since 1999, and I don’t listen to anything but rap. Breaks the bar-formula, breaks the hook-form, defies even the limits that Kanye, Common, and Eminem can’t. Wale brings a truly local genre [...]

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Dubai Blowing Up

If you recall, I posted previously about the tasty and cheap Schawarma that I ate in Dubai in Winter 2004/2005 in my post last year about my Doner Diet. But now a little more on the topic of the city of outstanding growth.
Construction in Dubai is on fire. Soon individuals will be able [...]

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