The Learned Fangirl

Neither the Chinese Democracy involving a change in political process in a vast Asian country nor the Chinese Democracy involving the most expensive never-released album seems to be forthcoming. Yet non-change is presently newsworthy.
The Guns n Roses “forthcoming” album, Chinese Democracy, has been a joke for years. According to a 2006 New York Times [...]

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Ka-chung! Ripped from the headlines — behold the actual legal implications of published real-person fictionalization! And what better source for this than Law and Order, the semi-official home of fictionalized legal and crime news.
In a November 2003 episode of original-flavor Law and Order, called Floater, a bald desi Manhattan attorney with the first name Ravi bribes [...]

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I quit watching Gundam 00, about a month ago. The storyline was moving at a snail’s pace, even for a mecha show (which is known its glacial plot development) and there were too many characters to keep track of. I come back to it this weekend and a good quarter of the secondary [...]

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So which group is the new Carrie ‘n’ friends?*
You’ve likely never watched either of the “new Sex in the City” shows this season, Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia.  The only difference in substance I’ve figured out is that one has Lucy Liu, the other has Brooke Shields – and they both seem more like the [...]

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I am very fortunate to have a job where I get to geek out over web 2.0, social networking sites, blogs, etc. all day long. In my daily online education, I read several blogs on “social media” and such. Here are 3 of my daily faves:
Ars Technica
Newsy blog about technology news and trends; [...]

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