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The Weekend Album: Nothing Changes Under the Sun

This marks the first of a new series here on Living With a Nerd, called The Weekend Album.  In this entry, we cover “Nothing Changes Under the Sun”, from Blue States.

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Almost at 100 feed subscribers!

Good afternoon, everyone!  While our average number of daily visitors has been slowly rising, we are nearing 100 RSS feed subscribers!  Help us reach our first century milestone by subscribing to our RSS feed (grab the link from the top or the side of this page), and also by telling your friends about us.  Thanks for making this all worthwhile…we run this site with zero paid advertising or endorsements on it as a way to give back to the culture that has provided us with so much.

Also, please remember that if you have a topic you would like to rant about, submit it to us by emailing it to pojut@livingwithanerd.com.  Try to keep it between 400-1000 words, and make sure it fits into one of the catagories at the top of this page.  Your rant could be our next Wednesday Rant!

Lastly, if you create your own music, please let us know by shooting us an email about it.  If we like it, we’ll feature you in our new weekly entry that is slated to start tomorrow, called The Weekend Album.  Nothing like some free publicity, eh?

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Cost of entry for Eyefinity has been dropped

Interested in Eyefinity, but don’t have monitors with a DisplayPort on them?  AMD has eased the pain of having to buy active DisplayPort->DVI converters, which can be astronomically expensive.  Engadget reports that AMD is helping develop relatively inexpensive (~$30) active adapters.

Of course, if more monitor manufacturers included display ports in their products, we wouldn’t have this problem…

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Wednesday Rant: Fanboys and video games

This week’s Wednesday Rant covers the topic of video game fanboys.

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30 years later: Cannibal Holocaust

Considering we are a PG-13 website, this is the only picture from the film I feel comfortable posting. I'm not kidding.

30 years ago, Cannibal Holocaust was unleashed upon the world.  It went on to become one of the most controversial movies ever…no small feat, considering it came from the same country that gave us everything from Salo to Suspiria.  Hit the read more link for a look back at this blood-soaked classic.

Note: There are some story spoilers (not that you’d watch Cannibal Holocaust for the story, ha!)

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The ATI name is no more

According to Tech Report, AMD has decided to drop the ATI brand name.  The Radeon and Firepro series cards will still retain those labels, however they will be called the AMD Radeon and Firepro, as opposed to ATI Radeon and Firepro.

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We now have a torrent uploaded on The Pirate Bay that includes all of our publicly released music so far:

  • The Transient Unknown (a spacey ambient project.  Six tracks completed.)
  • Lost on the Way to the Laundry (a chilled-out album to nod your head to.  Two tracks completed.)
  • Implied Reality (our drone project.  Four tracks completed.)

It’s only 45 megs, so it shouldn’t take you too long to download.  Our music is and always will be available completely free…we hope you enjoy it!  Please be sure to listen to our tracks with headphones, as that’s what they’ve been mixed for :)   You can also listen to and download our tracks from Last.FM.

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Top 5 great movies people love to hate

Some movies deserve every bit of hate that they get (I’m looking at you, Batman and Robin.)  However, there are some movies that are widely despised, yet I absolutely love.  Presented here are five such movies.

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Picture from hackmod.com

Microsoft is finally addressing the crap voice quality issue with Xbox Live, with plans to significantly up the bitrate the service uses.  My endless days of Rainbow Six: Vegas would have really appreciated this update a couple of years ago, but better late than never!

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The used game controversy

In the wake of Cory Ledesma’s comments regarding used video games, the Internet has been ablaze with talk on the subject.  Kotaku, Ars Technica, Penny Arcade…if  a website even remotely deals with gaming, they have at least one article up stating their opinion.

Here’s mine.

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