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Can You Do This? I’ll Bet You Can’t. I Couldn’t.

Remember in grade school there was this kid who could make fart noises with his armpit? How cool that was? You wanted to be able to do that too, but never seemed to be able to pull it off. And remember how in high school, the same kid was still making fart noises with his armpit? But now you thought it was gross (You never admitted to anyone you still tried to make it work alone in your room). Have you ever wondered what happened to that guy?

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Steam’s buy one, get one free with Brothers in Arms, violence, Hold Steady and console games – Friday deals ahoy!

It's Friday!  The world is poised on the edge of a weekend and it's time for some pretty cool deals. The biggest one is from the folks at Valve, but also save on games and music this morning from Amazon.

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Archos 605 WiFi 160GB model again cheaper than normal at Amazon

Today appears to be the day of deals online.  Amazon.com again has the beautiful and much loved Archos 605 WiFi for about $70 off retail - that’s $328.71.  We reviewed the 605 WiFi (30GB model) a while back and personally, I still love this PMP. You can also turn it into a nice DVR for recording all of your TV shows buy purchasing the DVR station, which amazon has for just $78 - $20 less than retail as well.

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MC Frontalot just earned six billion nerd points for rapping about Zork

I generally don't think all that much about Zork or other text adventure games on a regular basis unless something comes along to remind me about them.  This usually happens about once a year.  This time, my reminder comes via MC Frontalot - a nerdcore rapper who's compiled a wonderful tome of text adventure lingo into "It's Pitch Dark".  Words that brought horror to many a Zork player.  With the opening words (and chorus) "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" I was sucked into a style of music I'm not generally partial to.

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How to rip, store, tag and enjoy MP3s on your Ubuntu install

A short while back, I decided I needed to get a handle on my music collection.  I've got random MP3s from years back, purchased MP3s, CDs and even an old 8 track or two.  There are many ways to do go about this, but after throwing out the 8 tracks, here's what I did to get organized.

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