Year: 2005
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Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech
Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, and his acceptance speech was quite a doozy. Made big news in the UK apparently, but of course here in the US it barely produced a whimper. I think I heard a bit of it on Democracy Now, that was about it. Anyway, it’s long, […]
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E3 Opens Early? NoooooO!
GameSpot is reporting that next year’s E3 will open an hour earlier. Oh nooooo! Oh, fortunately it’s only on the first day, before the real sleep deprivation and hangovers begin. Whew! The other bit of amazing news today is Richard Branson’s announcement that Virgin Galactic is building a spaceport in New Mexico. Wow! One of […]