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Being sick on friday I decided to prepare for the release of Live Free or Die Hard (which by the way is called Die Hard 4.0 here in Switzerland; presumably because the Swiss are not familiar with New Hampshire.)

A man gets cut in half by a cable. Not quite as awesomely as in Alien 3 but he was german.

Jeremy Irons must be the most awesome gay german villain since Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons. Tip to would-be german heisters: americans think german accents sound gay; don’t make it worse by wearing purple tank tops.

His evil non-talking sidekick chick KILLS A MAN WITH A SICKLE. everyone else in the movie just uses a gun or whatever

There is the typical

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

sciency, noisy, nerdy

oh man, if this works i would be so happy to dump endnote, the crappy bibliography & reference plugin for word that inexplicably costs 240 dollars

http://www.zotero.org/

but, uh, a firefox extension? weird. i’m guessing it sucks too, as all bibliography software must, but at least it’s free.

openoffice is now good enough that i’ve dumped ms office except to open and re-save .doc & .xls files I have to send to those foolish enough to pay