• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 10, 2006

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CD Review: The Cure, The Top (Deluxe Reissue)

Long missing from the US catalog of everyone’s favorite moody goths, this reissue of The Top fills in a void in the CD discography of the Cure—since it was never issued on CD in the US in the first place. But many Cure fans who are hearing it for the first time will find it [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 10, 2006

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MacBook Pro battery recall, take two

I was surprised to come home last night and find a package from Apple waiting for me. I was even more surprised to find that it was … earbuds. Not the replacement MacBook Pro battery I had ordered under Apple’s recall. Earbuds. You know, the iconic little white headphones that come with iPods, of which [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 10, 2006

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Terror Level Elmo: good day not to be traveling

New York Times: Aircraft Bomb Plot Thwarted in Britain. Apparently the British police stopped a plot to blow up multiple airplanes flying from Heathrow to the US. The number of targeted flights ranges from 3 to 10 according to various reports. Wonderfully enough, the terrorists are believed to be still at large…
…which is no doubt [...]