MY POST LAST NIGHT on the 10″ Asus netbook produced an email from reader James Flanagan, who loves his 10″ Samsung N10: “The key selling point for me was the large keyboard, which feels like a ‘real’ laptop. And unlike my ‘regular’ laptop, never an issue abo...

Lenovo today is announcing the release of their new IdeaCenter A600 All-in-One desktop that has some pretty cool features.  This type of computer doesn’t exactly qualify as mobile tech but it’s cool enough to pass on. The A600 has a unique curved one piece construction that packs a 21.5...

Hi all! Happy new year!  Now I have to get into the swing of learning to write “2009” on everything.  It usually takes me a few weeks to get that habit under control. We said “good-bye” to the last of our holiday guests yesterday.  Alvis and I spend the remainder of the aftern...

so we ventured to bowlarama who the fuck knows where, troy picked us (fil steph me) up (his 30th birthday!) with natalie and off we went despite my being in the middle of a, say level 6, anxiety attack and it was stop and go saturday traffic along bloor with five manic personalities going at once, m...

Quantum of Solace (08)directed by Marc Forster***1/4 disappointing I was never a James Bond fan. That is, not until Casino Royale came along, with its gritty, realistic thrill ride, captivating plot and thoroughly impressive Bond. Some of that's still here, and Quantum is definitely an improveme...

Thanks to everyone who voted in this year's Readers Poll. Once again you, the Brainwashed readers, have voiced your opinion on the best and worst of the year and the Brainwashed staff and contributors have voiced our own—occasionally clashing—opinions. All the best wishes for 2009! A...

I should have canceled the damn service. Verizon has put me through all sorts of hell over the past three weeks. All I want is for my DSL to work. Is that so fucking hard? Apparently the answer is 'yes'. The DSL has been down since last weekend. You know that shiny new modem we got? Yeah, didn't nee...

Hi. I’m an anonymous African American football player at the University of Utah. On the eve of this game you might wonder: why would a talented young black man such as myself go to a place that doesn’t have many of my people in it? You’d be surprised as to the reasons why. First, C...

Stencils used to mark bricks of cocaine before transport. Ha. With a glass of warm champagne and a with a fistfull of m80s, I bid farewell to 2008 in the company of friends. As I pondered the new year, I realized that I'm quite excited to see what pans out in 2009, but I can't help but think how muc...

Hadrians Curse Part III- Will Israel finish Hadrian's Work? Thus, the way to Palestinian Hell was paved with the good intentions of Christian Zionists like Lord Balfour, the British foreign secretary. In the Balfour declaration, and by the decree of the Mandate, they decided, based on historic right...