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Meh

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Did you see Rocky Balboa? There's a movie that totally didn't need to be made, but nevertheless it was a reasonably entertaining way to spend two hours. Best case scenario for Indiana Jones IV is that it will be reasonably entertaining. Worst case? We get another Temple of Doom. The fact that they even acknowledged that movie in the trailer, combined with the scenes of cannibals chasing Indy around and just the title of the movie itself has me fearing the worst. It's not the years, it's the mileage.

You're gonna need a bigger boat

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Jaws Police Chief Passes Away Great whites around the world mourn the passing of Roy Scheider (pictured, right). The actor, best known for his role as a shark obsessed police chief in Jaws, pased away Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was being treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years and had battled with blood cancer for the past three years. He was 75.

I installed Linux

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I would love to read a behind-the-scenes account of where Longhorn development went wrong. Vista cannot be the operating system that Bill Gates envisioned.