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The earth’s core stops spinning, leading to a breakdown of the magnetic field, threatening to destroy humanity. A crack squad of scientists join with the military to drive straight down into the planet and save everyone.

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Apple recently banned a fart-joke iPhone app called “Pull My Finger” - saying it was of “limited utility.” This is yet another instance of Apple deciding what sort of apps should be allowed in the store - earlier the Are You Rich? app was pulled.

I didn’t agree with Apple pulling that app and I don’t agree with the pulling of this fart app either. Truth be told, there are a lot of other apps of extremely questionable utility that I find pretty fun.

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Uh… can someone explain this ad to me? It’s just… limp. Lame. Like an churro soaked in a Jamba Juice.

Bill Gates is buying shoes in a mall and Seinfeld bends some shoes, and they walk out of the mall eating churros. WTF?

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Doc Hayward looks at the corpse and pulls out a chesspiece from his mouth. Cooper deduces that Windham Earle set off an explosion to cause a diversion so he could place the corpse in the sheriff’s office. The dead body represents a pawn taken in the ongoing chess game between he and Windham Earle.

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Mobster / movie producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) enters the music business, weaving his way through various corrupt industry characters to break a rising star.

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There’s a book on my bookshelf called How The Web Was Won which documents how Microsoft dispatched Netscape back in the Web 1.0 days. It’s definitely worth a read to see how Microsoft pivoted 180 degrees and why Internet Explorer - for better or worse - is still considered the “standard” web browser.

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Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his loyal second in command, Zoe (Gina Torres) are under heavy fire. Mal aggressively shoots down a large space craft which crashes, nearly killing him and Zoe. Mal claims reinforcements will soon arrive but they don’t - the battle is lost.

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Steven (Matthew McConaughey) is hiding something from his girlfriend Carol (Kate Beckinsale) - his parents and twin brother (Gary Oldman) are dwarves.

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I recently ran into a pretty annoying situation with the iPhone. Normally, it’s a breeze importing photos taken on the iPhone using iPhoto. But somewhere, iPhoto got stuck on one photo in particular, saying it was “unreadable.” Problem was, any photo taken after that one, iPhoto refused to import.

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