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We’ve made it through easy and medium, but switching to the hard level ups the degree of difficulty significantly. Learning to slide down to the orange button is not simple. The game is hard. but not too hard to where you want to give up, but hard enough to make you stay up all night until you can get 5 stars on a damn song. Favorite songs: Sabotage, Bulls on Parade, Paint It Black, Black Magic Woman

As part of their series on global color COLOURlovers has just added Colors of Global Cuisine: Persian

And the pictures make me hungry.

As a follow up to Possum Death 1, episodes 2 and 3 are now available!

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Episode 2

Episode 3

One of my favorite new sites I have discovered is Fora.TV. It’s like NPR with video!

Check out some of the great stuff they have
Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens

The Clash Between Faith and Reason

Paul Krugman: The Future of the Middle Class?

Islam & the Western World: An Interfaith Dialogue

I love the Freakonomics guys. Check out How is Abstinence-Only Sex Education Like South Africa’s Driving Exam?

It’s official, Arco Arena, home to the Sacramento Kings, is dead. There is absolutely no energy in the building any more.

I was at the Knicks vs Kings game tonight and the place was only half full. Read that last bit again. Arco was never half empty or 3/4 full. Arco was sold out and rocking. There was an immediate vibe you got from Arco. Then the ticket prices started to go up as the Kings won and Arco was a place to be seen at. The true fans were pushed to the upper deck and now, it looks like the real fans have been priced out of Arco. Because with this Kings team, only the real fans are going to show up.

And speaking of the King, this is a bad team and one whose coach has not figured it out yet. The best lineup, at least against the Knicks was Kevin Martin, Francisco Garcia, John Salmons, Spencer Hawes and Brad Miller. When Artest was in the game, the offense stopped moving. And in the fourth quarter the sets were run for Artest and not Martin. If Theus was the one calling the plays then he is not going to last long. Theus also kept Martin on the bench way too long in the fourth. I hope the Kings can work a trade with Artest going to the Knicks and the Kings getting David Lee. Lee is a beast and exactly what the Kings at power forward, because Mikki Moore is horrible.

I think Hawes has a future. He may not be an all-star, but a good, maybe really good player once he figures out NBA defense. Hawes has naturally good passing skills and setup down on block on the offense, unlike Miller. And Hawes seems to have good energy and effort on defense. He got pushed out of the way a few times when going for rebounds, but that will hopefully change as he hits the weights.

At the start of the season I was hoping the Kings might win 35 games, but I thinking 26 to 30 is more realistic. At least Martin is for real and should be an all-star. He is starting to get the star calls with the refs. It’s going to be a long season.

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