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on November 13, 2009 -
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lala: Where Music Plays

Recently I was introduced to a new service known as lala. Lala is a website that allows you to listen, buy, and share your music online. They even offer a feed that will give you music choices from your friends and even the experts behind the scenes at lala. You can also import your own collection of music to be able to listen to no matter where you are; as long as you have an Internet connection. It has been all the rage with a few friends of mine [...]

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on November 11, 2009 -
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Lady Takes Aim at Blockbuster & Facebook

With the advent of all of these social media tools like Twitter and Facebook, online privacy becomes a big issue. Some people stay off these tools all together in fear of sharing too much information with the World Wide Web. For instance, on Facebook, you can find my birthday, the school and year that I graduated from college, my girlfriend’s name, and even my job title, email address, and iChat screen name. This information is [...]

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on November 8, 2009 -
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Take a Listen to What We’ve Become from Mardelay

I must admit that the first time I heard this album I was not impressed. I listened to about five or six of the songs skipping from tune to tune on my way home. It was late, I was tired, and I was not paying very close attention to the lyrics let alone the instrumentals behind them. I turned the CD off half way home and made a decision against it. The next day I was talking to some good friends of mine in the band Borrow Tomorrow [...]

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on November 4, 2009 -
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Christian Audigier Presents Ed Hardy

I may be only be twenty-six years old but that does not mean I do not know how to party. I went through a stage when I first hit twenty-one years of age where I wanted to go to every nightclub I could, drink anything I could get my hands on, and spend my time dancing the night away wherever I could find a DJ spinning. On my twenty-first birthday (actually on midnight the night before) I ended up at The Vogue right here in Broad Ripple. I walked in [...]

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on November 3, 2009 -
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Twitter Interview: 1-on-1 with Mark Maguire

The artist that I am sitting with today comes from over the pond in the southern part of the United Kingdom. He is a singer songwriter that is currently working on a new album with six tracks recorded and a few more in the balance. I literally “met” this guy on Twitter about two hours before this interview took place. We talked about video games, my chance on having dinner with Tiger Woods, and thus came this interview. A goof friend of mine [...]

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on November 3, 2009 -
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Who Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea?

Currently I am not blessed with the financial freedoms to be able to afford cable television. I get all of my TV viewing from online sources such as Hulu. However, not too long ago you could find me any time of the day sitting on my bed watching the Nickelodeon classic SpongeBob SquarePants. The show is about a witty sponge, whose name is Bob, and his daily musings with guys like Patrick the Starfish and Squidward Tentacles. Any number [...]

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on November 2, 2009 -
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Dave & Buster’s Redeems Themselves

As some of you know a couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and I had an unfortunate series of events take place with Dave & Buster’s here in Indianapolis. It all started three months prior and led to a four-hour wait for a table, rude hostesses, servers, and management. Since then I have reached out through Facebook to Dave & Buster’s, which led to a series of emails and phone calls with the appropriate people in guest services at D&B corporate offices. I was promised an [...]

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on October 29, 2009 -
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A Smart Phone Fist Fight

A couple of years ago the mega computer company Apple released what has since proven to be the single best invention of our time. I know that a lot of you out there, especially those of you who do not have an iPhone, will disagree. I understand that you are simply jealous of the fact that you do not have one and we do. We, the largest smart phone user group, have been tapping away on our touch screens for quite some time. They have [...]

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on October 28, 2009 -
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Spending Halloween in Las Vegas

Halloween has always been known as the holiday to pig out on candy corn and to dress up as scary as you can to freak out your friends and neighbors. Growing up I would always get excited about this holiday for many reasons. The first was the candy that I would be able to partake in that night and the following weeks. This was motivation, of course, to get the most that I could when knocking on doors. I dressed up like a variety of characters throughout [...]

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on October 27, 2009 -
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Mark Sanchez is Hungry

It is very possible that I hate football more than I hate basketball, but again, I pay attention to the headlines in case someone asks me if I have heard about the latest new story. So when I first saw the footage of Mark Sanchez, the quarterback for the New York Jets, eating a hot dog I was instantly intrigued. What in the world could be so news worthy to show a football player eating a hot dog? It was not only worthy of hitting the Yahoo! Sports headlines [...]

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