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5 Reasons Cuil is Not Cool

31 July 2008 by Guinevere, 4 Comments

Earlier this week, former Google staff announced the launch of their project that they left the mothership for — a new search engine, Cuil. The announcement garnered so much attention that the newly birthed site strained to deliver search results to thousands who flocked to try out the new service (myself included). A few days [...]

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Oil! Review

31 March 2008 by Guinevere, No Comments
Oil!

I’ve just finished reading Oil! by Upton Sinclair. I picked up the book because I liked the movie There Will Be Blood so much, which is based on this book. Now I don’t think that movie adaptations of books have to be identical; movies & books are simply two very different ways of story telling. [...]

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Vantage Point

28 February 2008 by Guinevere, 1 Comment

Allen and I spent a few bucks to see Vantage Point, which looked like a decent enough thriller from the trailer: And it was, decent that is. Not great, not good, but okay. It was entertaining enough. Vantage Point demonstrates how random acts can unravel the best laid plans. The story unfolds several times from [...]