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Best Songs of 2009: The Love Language - Lalita

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:09:22 -0800

The Love Language are from North Carolina, and these days that's almost enough for me. Seems like I love all the music coming out of North Carolina. Somehow I missed these guys when they came to town, can't remember why. Too bad, because this s...

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Best Songs of 2009: Vetiver - Everyday

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:34:46 -0800

Guess what? It's that time of year again, when all the lists of Bests come out. It's already December and I've gotten a lot of great new music recently, so I have to get going with my Songs of the Year. After all, this being 2009, of course th...

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Sumo Update Day 9: Still All Yokozuna

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:12:41 -0800

No change in the Sumo tournament as the two Yokozunas continue their domination and records continue falling. Asashoryu and Hakuho are both 9-0 now. Neither one has been in any danger this whole tournament, though they've each had 1 or 2 long ma...

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Has Reese Witherspoon gone too far?

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:36 -0800

Remember Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon? Haven't seen her in a while. What's she been up to? Looks like she's been having some major surgery to turn her into an African-American for her next role. Amazing. OK, that's not really Re...

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The long-awaited Sumo Update (day 5)

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:27 -0800

Yes, we're already 5 days into the Kyushu Tournament and here's the update... Looks like a 2-man race this time. At an undefeated and unsurprising 5-0, we have Yokozuna Asashoryu (back in his rightful place at the very top of the rankings thanks...

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RIP Ken Ober

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:06:49 -0800

I was very sad today to hear of the untimely death of Ken Ober. It was especially poignant to me because I had just been thinking of him the day before. Yesterday, I was listening to Colin Quinn's appearance on Howard Stern from earlier in the w...

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Match.com suggests...

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:59:24 -0800

Warning: Adult content... Today at work, I was working on a new feature where the user can enter text into a free text field. We want to block people from using inappropriate language, so I had to find a list of dirty words and spec out an error...

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Pearl Jam <3 Devo

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:38:28 -0800

A few months ago, I showed how Pearl Jam had stolen a song from Devo. Apparently, Pearl Jam just really really want to be Devo. Exhibit B: Their Halloween show a few days ago: PS - I'm seeing the real thing Friday! Woo!

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Huge Sumo News

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:54:29 -0700

Just read some awesome Sumo news: Sumo is coming back to Las Vegas! Apparently the Sumo was such a big hit when it played Mandalay Bay a few years ago, they're desperate to do it again. And the Sumo Association has agreed to do it next October (...

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Two actually funny new comedies on TV

nobody@vox.com(Josh Hornik) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:08:51 -0700

Seems like up to this year there has been exactly one decent new comedy on TV in the last 5 years. And while that one, How I Met Your Mother, hasn't exactly been blowing me away this season, there are actually 2 new shows that are funny and wort...

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