K-pop. Since Psy took over the world with Gangnam Style everybody knows the genre once reserved to Asians and the odd Westerner. While the vast majority of the newly reached audience only enjoyed the biggest Youtube hit ever, some, including me, dove deeper into the wide world of Korean Pop and got hooked. This is my account of acquiring a new addiction.
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25
Muse Returns!
Posted by Sandstorm in Music, Reviews on September 25th, 2012.Tags: 2nd, Absolution, Animals, Bellamy, Big Freeze, Chris, Dominic, Explorers, Follow, Howard, Isolated, Law, Liquid, Madness, Matt, Me, Muse, of, Origin, Panic, Resistance, review, Save, State, Station, Supremacy, Survival, Symmetry, System, The, Unsustainable, Wolstenholme
An absurdly biased review of the new Muse album The 2nd Law, written by a pretty hardcore fan.
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Sep
19
TIFF 2012: The ABCs of Death
Posted by Sandstorm in Movies, Reviews, Uncategorized on September 19th, 2012.Tags: ABCs, Death, Festival, Film, Horror, International, review, TIFF12, Toronto, wtf
An interesting, though somewhat disturbing project featuring short films from 27 indie directors showcases murder, accidents and cultural differences in all its gory glory.
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Sep
17
TIFF 2012: Tai Chi 0
Posted by Sandstorm in Movies, Offbeat, Reviews on September 17th, 2012.Tags: 0, 2012, arts, Chi, Festival, Film, Fung, martial, Pilgrim, review, Scott, steampunk, Stephen, Tai, Toronto, zero
Chinese martial arts meet Scott Pilgrim in this (positively) crazy movie
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Sep
16
TIFF 2012: Much Ado About Nothing and the Whedon Phenomenon
Posted by Sandstorm in Movies, Reviews, Uncategorized on September 16th, 2012.Tags: 2012, About, Ado, Dollhouse, Festival, Film, Firefly, Joss, Much, Nothing, review, Serenity, Shakespeare, TIFF12, Toronto, Whedon, Whedonites
Joss Whedon shows off his versatility once again in this near perfect adaptation of the play by Shakespeare.
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Sep
12
The Legend of Zelda Through the Eyes of a Modern Gamer
Posted by Sandstorm in Game Reviews, Offbeat, Uncategorized on September 12th, 2012.Tags: 3DS, Gamer, Legend, modern, NES, Nintendo, of, The, Zelda
Becoming a Masochist one death at a time.
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Jul
13
Embracing the Digital Era… Sort of.
Posted by Sandstorm in Offbeat, Tech on July 13th, 2012.Tags: a, apple, comics, DC, Digital, Distribution, easy, era, Marvel, Nintendo
A Newbie’s first steps into the hell of Digital Distribution.
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May
06
Get acces to your Kubuntu samba server
Posted by Flo in Tech, Tricks on May 6th, 2012.Tags: guide, Kubuntu, Linux, mac os x, networking, samba, trick, Ubuntu
While trying to access some files on my Kubuntu computer from Mac OS X through samba, I ran into the problem that the password I set in the Kubuntu’s system settings for network sharing was denied. It turned out that it wasn’t even accessible through smbclient from the machine itself, and it resulted in a NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error. The fix was actually quite simple and probably the result of lazy reading when I was setting up the samba server. Read on if you’ve got the same problems.
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Nov
30
Retrieving files from mac OSX (backup) dmg file
Posted by Flo in Tricks on November 30th, 2010.Tags: backup, guide, Kubuntu, trick
A little while ago, the my brother’s macbook pro died a horrible death (Apple hardware tends to do that). Luckily a backup of the hard disk could be made with the mac disk utility. Well, luckily… Retrieving the data from the .dmg file seems to be more troublesome than I hoped it would be. When accessed with mac software, not all data could be retrieved (some files don’t even appear). However, after a long night of work, I got access to all the files again. How? read on…
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Aug
26
Versus #4: Inception
Posted by Nick in Movies, Reviews on August 26th, 2010.Nick: My expectations for this movie were pretty high. Not only because Christopher Nolan was involved, but also because his latest effort is ranked #3 on Imbd’s top 250. Especially during the summer when hardly any good movies come out, a Christopher Nolan movie should be a breath of fresh air. In Inception, Leonardo di […]
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