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On Fringe, Radiation Ghoul is Pure Fiction
In this week's Fringe episode, "Earthling," the team searches for an explanation behind a string of murders in which victims turn to ash without explanation—the handy work of a space ghoul who's going after the radiation stored in human cancer patients.
Previous Reviews Stories
| Viewtopia 11/03/09: Top 5 DVDs of the Week (With Video!) Fans of G.I. Joe are served a double helping this week with the release of the live-action extravaganza G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and the gritty animated feature G.I. Joe: Resolute written by comic book scribe Warren Ellis.
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| Why Motorola's Droid Is a Sure-Fire Hit: Analysis It is a good device. And, yes, it will sell well. The real question: Does the Droid represent a seismic shift for Motorola, or is it merely a stay of execution?
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| Viewtopia 10/27/09: Top 5 DVDs of the Week (With Video!) This week, Number Six is not a number, but a man in The Prisoner: The Complete Series, while Night of the Creeps finally staggers onto DVD in time for Halloween. Also, the Dude abides The Achievers: The Story of Lebowski Fans.
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| Windows 7 Brings Much-Needed Closure for Microsoft Vista Windows 7 officially hits the market today. It may come as a surprise to most users that it doesn't look that much different from Windows Vista at first glance. As you use Win 7, however, everything seems snappier and an order of magnitude more refined.
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| Astro Boy's Retrofuturistic World Has Hints of Real-Life Tech When Dr. Tenma loses his son in a tragic accident, he creates a robot doppelganger that eventually goes on to save the denizens of Metro City. PM talks to director David Bowers about integrating real-life tech into Astro Boy's retrofuturistic world.
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| Viewtopia 10/20/09: Top 5 DVDs of the Week (With Video!) Transformers fans get a double dose this week with the release of Michael Bay's Revenge of the Fallen and the massive "G1" Transformers: The Complete Series - 25th Anniversary Matrix Of Leadership Edition collection.
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| 4 Things the Barnes & Noble Nook Does Right, and 5 It Does Wrong Today, Barnes & Noble announced the Nook—the book seller's debut e-book reader, and a direct assault on a market long dominated by arch-rival Amazon. So how does it stack up as an Kindle-killer?
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| Viewtopia 10/13/09: Top 5 DVDs of the Week (With Video!) It's a good week for Futurama fans, as a new 19 (yes, 19) disk set hits stores. For those who prefer thrills to laughs, there's a new, uncut version of the '90s classic Hardware while a director's cut of Drag Me to Hell makes a timely DVD debut.
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| Viewtopia 10/06/09: Top 5 DVDs of the Week (With Video!) Halloween has come early with the aptly titled Trick 'r Treat, but the rest of this week's offerings are no less horrific. Take for example Nip/Tuck's gruesome surgeries, Anvil: The Story of Anvil's dark lyrics and Man vs. Food's frightful challenges.
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| The Science Behind The Invention of Lying: Hollywood Fact vs. Fiction What if humans had never evolved the ability to lie? That's the premise posed by The Invention of Lying, the new movie from Ricky Gervais, the creator and star of Extras and the original BBC version of The Office.
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