Name: Phillip Winn
Dateline: Dallas, Texas
Weblog: sdquarterly.com [RSS]
Articles: 296
First Published: Monday, August 12, 2002
Last Published: Friday, July 18, 2008
Currently listing articles 296-251:
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rules Gotham — Christopher Nolan has created a film that is almost as wild and daring as The Joker.
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Movie Review: Hellboy II - The Golden Army— Hellboy is back, in a world more gorgeous than ever. The story sometimes suffers, but it doesn't matter.
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Senator Obama: Change We Can Believe In, or Politics As Usual?— Is Senator Obama a new kind of politician, delivering change we can believe in, or is he just yet another partisan politician, delivering politics as
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Twitter Is... — Twitter is many things, but primarily it's a revolutionary, or perhaps just evolutionary, way of communicating online.
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Dianetics vs The Church Of Scientology— One is a religious philosophy, one is an organization. It's like Christianity vs. The Roman Catholic Church.
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The Translation of Dr. Apelles by David Treuer [Review]— There are two stories One is resolved traditionally, while the other ends in a bit of post-modern trickery.
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A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz [Review]— Toltz peels back layers of absurdity from modern life, showing us how life could be from slightly left of normal.
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Each Birthday Brings Joy And Sadness— We spend one day each year stopping to smell the roses, and every year they smell just a bit less sweet.
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Macworld 2008: MacBook Air, Apple TV, Time Capsule, iPhone, iTunes Movie Rentals— The banners read "There Is Something In The Air," and the theme of over-the-air and light-as-air was a common theme during the Stevenote.
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I Don't Have A Crush On Ron Paul— There's nothing wrong with the man as an idealogical figurehead, but some people thing he might become President!
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Countdown to 165: Week 20 - The End— At last, the end, and a happy ending at that — 70 pounds lost in 20 weeks.
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Countdown to 165: Weeks 18-19 - The Final Stretch— With one week to go, I know the effect a single high-carb meal can have.
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Countdown to 165: Weeks 16-17 - The Home Stretch— Finally I can buy pants and not have to worry about shrinking out of them! I've bought my final belt, too.
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Countdown to 165: Weeks 14-15 - New Clothes
— In which I buy new clothes, but shrink out of them before I can even try them on!
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Flash Games: High Speed Chase, Thor Towers, The Sea of Glomp, Bot Arena 2, Escape from Island, MuseLock, Swinger, Least Best Room— Back after summer hiatus, making up for lost time with nine games!
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Ambrosia's iToner Makes iPhone Ringtones Easy... For Now— Ambrosia Software's iToner lets you load custom ringtones onto your iPhone without paying per ringtone.
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Countdown to 165: Weeks 12-13 - Resetting the Target— My entire endgame disappeared overnight. Can I continue on pace after being set adrift?
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Countdown to 165: Weeks 10-11 - Mid-Term Course Change — Forget the wise choice — I'm going for the raw numbers! We'll see how foolish it looks next year.
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Countdown to 165: Week 8-9 - Halfway There— Staying the course even when things go well. Go well? Yes, when they go well.
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Countdown to 165: Week 7 - Slow And Steady
— When faced with discouragement (even unreasonable discouragement), how can one keep on track?
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Flash Games: Gravity Pods, Triangles, Battleships Extreme— A physics simulation, a two-handed challenge, and a big-budget epic update for a childhood classic.
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Countdown to 165: Week 6 - Two Pounds, Two Inches— What to do when the scale doesn't show quite what you'd hoped for.
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Countdown to 165: Week 5 - Staying On Track— How to stay focused and dedicated to losing weight.
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Flash Games: Rose and Camellia, Amberial, Hunger Spiders— Slapfights, rolling balls, and spider-squishing — an eclectic mix of games for the weekend.
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Flash Games: Temple of Zoom, The Simpsons Movie: Wrecking Ball, Belter— Two games shilling for product, but fun to play, plus a commercial-free Asteroids clone. Also a bonus that bends--but not breaks--my Flash-only rule.
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Countdown to 165: Week 4 - One-Third Down, 56 Pounds To Go— I've lost more than one-third of my total goal: 29 out of 85 pounds. 56 more to go!
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Flash Games: Orb, Orb 2, Orb Avoidance, Orbox B— Four games for the Fourth of July, including mazes, a puzzler, and a reflex-tester.
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Countdown to 165: Week 3 - 25 Pounds Gone, 60 To Go
— 10% of my body weight gone in three weeks! It hardly seems possible, but here I am, 90% of the man I used to be.
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Flash Games: Bloxorz, Cursor Invisible, Phit— Three polished games: two puzzlers and a reflex tester.
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Countdown to 165: Week 2 - 66 Pounds To Go— One more week, five more pounds lost. Here's the beginning of "How."
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Flash Games: Starshine, Vector TD, RGB, Square Divide And 8 More — Puzzles, Tower Defense Games, Escape Games, and Shooters— A dozen games, four trios, for weeks of casual browser gaming fun.
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Countdown to 185: Week 1 - 65 Pounds To Go— I started with 144 days to lose 65 pounds. Eight days in, I'm ahead of schedule.
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Apple's iPhone Third-Party Apps Will Be Better Than Feared
— They're not just Web 2.0 apps, they're Web 2.0 apps that can make phone calls and send emails.
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Flash Games: Falldown, Falldown 2, Fallout, Cyberbox, Colorsok, Box Up, Four Second Fury, Four Second Frenzy, Four Second Firestorm— Presenting three games each from three different game developers for the three day weekend.
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Flash Games: Arctic Blue, Spaceworms, Ant Arena, Cat With Bow Golf, IQ Marathon, Mindfields 2204, Mindfields 2— Seven games, including a set of three of the same style. An interesting style, of course.
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Digg, Reddit, Netscape: The Wisdom of Crowds or Mob Rule?— Digg, Reddit, and Netscape are heralded as harnessing the wisdom of crowds, but do they? Could they?
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Flash Games: Overkill Apache, The Last Stand, Luminara, The Way of the Exploding Stick, Sea of Fire, Elasticity— Six games this week, five of which involve the destruction of everything in sight.
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Podcast Software In Perpetual Adolescence— Since I quit podcasting nearly two years ago, the state of the art has advanced not at all.
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Flash Games: VR Defender Y3K, Picnic Panic, Flash Circle TD, Onslaught, Turret Defense, Turret Tyranny, More— A total of nine "tower defense"-style games, each with unique charms. You'll love one of them.
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Flash Games: Enigmatica, Submachine 4: The Lab, Scribble, Tiki Balls— Scribbles, puzzles, and a vengeful tiki god. Five games in all!
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Flash Games: Indestructo Tank, Jetspeed, Bloons, Dwarf, JellyJumper, PiPi The Jumping Bubble— Seven games, one for each day of the week.
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Flash Games: FL Tron, Top Figures, 3D Logic Cube, Submachine 0, 2, 3— Relive Tron's lightcycles, spin the logic cube, and escape, escape, escape again from the Submachines.
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Flash Games: Skywire, Planned, Balls, Boomshine— A potpourri of game-playing fun, with puzzles, reflex-testers, and old-school pixelated action.
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It's Official: Lost Is Back— Seasons Three-B has returned to Lost's roots, reminding me why it was the best show on television.
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Flash Games: Silversphere, The Phone, Stuck Inside, The Escape Room, Diversity, The Basement— By the time you work your way through this week's list, you might need an escape from escape games!
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Recipe: Extra Stout Chocolate Mousse— The ultimate chocolate experience can be yours, with much less effort than you expect!
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