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WTF: Firefly MMO
[Joss Whedon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon)'s [Firefly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)) universe is set to be resurrected! As an: [MMO](http://feeds.wired.com/~r/Gamelife/~3/58483779/firefly_goes_mm.html)?
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A sweeter future
Jones soda is [switching to cane sugar in 2007](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/293972_jonessoda29.html)! (Found on [The Soda Pop Blog](http://soda-pops.blogspot.com/2006/12/imagine-my-surprise-to-see-that-jones.html), who I don't always quite agree with but most of the relatively small group of people who are covering a topic I am highly interested in are generally worth reading.)
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Sole Inhabitant, but not lonely
My autographed copy (#219!) of [Thomas Dolby](http://www.thomasdolby.com)'s ["The Sole Inhabitant" concert DVD](http://cdbaby.com/cd/dolbydvdauto) arrived in the mail today from [CD Baby](http://www.cdbaby.com) and I spent a really great evening getting through the contents despite a couple of little flaws in the package. The main content is the concert from September 28th 2006 at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Being a big fan of Thomas Dolby's music means that it was worth it just to hear some great live arrangements of several of his classic songs, but the video presentation by Johnny DeKam really made it fun to keep my eyes open instead of just blissing out to the music.
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Perfectly reasonable responses…
<a href="http://www.reasonablyclever.com/quiz/holiday.html"><img src="http://www.reasonablyclever.com/quiz/images/socks.gif" /></a> Wrong? Hardly.
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But only a little guilty…
As a birthday present for my sister this year I got tickets for her and I to go see the [Barenaked Ladies](http://www.bnlmusic.com) play at the [Xcel Center](http://www.xcelenergycenter.com/) in St Paul last night. The show was pretty good, though I have to admit that I was a bit more excited about (and happy at the performance of) the opening act than I was was of the headliner. [Mike Doughty](http://www.mikedoughty.com/) was in fine form and did a great job warming up the crowd with some of his solo work as well as a couple of [Soul Coughing](http://en.
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End Times Sign!
The New York Times [is going to have variant covers](http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/11/20/its-over-new-yorker-succumbs-to-variant-covers/) for an upcoming issue. At least they aren't foil. Yet.
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Politics is a four letter word
After spending I have no idea how many millions of dollars to try and move cars and traffic <em>out</em> of downtown Minneapolis our illustrious, and sadly slightly flaky, Mayor has now decided that [maybe we need <em>more</em> traffic downtown](http://www.startribune.com/462/story/815949.html) but with fewer buses. I've got a better idea: How about we fully implement the original idea and see how that goes first!
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Mea Culpa
It turns out that [the Zune software does have Dynamic Playlists](http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/we-were-wrong-zune-does-support-smart-playlists-215303.php), they're just hidden very well. Still not enough to get it back on my system and certainly not enough to use it regularly.
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One last irritation
While I was uninstalling the Zune software from my system a thought occurred to me: I did not remember ever seeing an option of where to install the software during installation. Since the uninstallation was nice and painless I decided to restart the installation to verify my memory just to be sure and I could not find a way for an average user to change the installation location of the software.
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Strike 3! …4! …5! …
Further issues with the Zune software: I think the strangest thing about all of those points is that otherwise the interface looks and behaves almost identical to Windows Media Player 11, which I spent a fair bit of time playing around with over the past couple of weeks. Playback works okay and audio quality isn't an issue that I can tell, but I see absolutely no compelling reasons to keep this installed on my computer.
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