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For the Boleyn story, watch Tudors.

February 10, 2009

After slowly making our way through the available episodes of Showtimes’s Tudors, and nearing the end of the second season, we decided to take a brief break and watch The Other Boleyn Girl. How could a movie starring both Natalie Portman and Scarlet Johansson fail? Well, epically. At least compared to the story told in [...]

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BuzzCap: Apocalypto.

September 24, 2008

Warning: spoilers below. Apocalypto is the touching tale of an Indian a Mexican a Native American who changes colour. He comes from a small village that calls pigs “tapirs”, and hunts them with intricate booby traps that would make Indiana Jones jealous. The chameleone-sque Native American, named Jaguar Paw, is a practical joker, much like [...]

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The old Starbucks logo is better.

August 23, 2008

Somewhat surprised were we when we came across a post decrying the old brown Starbucks logo in favor of the censored, common-place green one. In said post, author Maxator doesn’t so much mind the bare breasts that most people complain about, but instead doesn’t like the idea of the Starbucks mermaid holding her “mer-legs” apart. [...]

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What did they call D&D in Rome?

July 19, 2008

Modern history tells us that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson designed Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), and first published the game in 1974. Ignoring its geeky stereotypes for a moment, D&D is chiefly remembered for its use of polyhedral dice, which were used to resolve in-game event through chance-mechanics. In the basic game, a 20-sided die [...]

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Room 101

February 12, 2007
Old mendax.org logo, circa 1997.

In 1996, a small group of individuals signed up to join an association described as “an international organization synonymous with the NWO.” The group established a lateral hierarchy broken into Charges, each with distinct ruling heads. By 1997, the organization evolved into a loose social club whose Charges were traded in for Departments. By winter, [...]

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