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In case you were wondering what going to medical school is like, here's a perfect encapsulation of the first two years. The third and forth years are better. They let you perform all the fecal disimpactions.

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I know that many of you are looking forward to seeing the Hunger Games this weekend. That's cool. I'm going to go see it too. But while Gary Ross' remake of is appealing, Gareth Evan's remix of  has my complete and total attention.

 has a very simplistic plot: A SWAT team is ordered to clear a building full of criminals. The criminals get wind that they are coming. They let the the SWAT team get halfway into the building before springing ...

As part of Amazon's , Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's is on sale for only $2.99. I've been meaning to read Grossman's work for quite some time. His textbook was recommended to me by a serviceman as a good guide to the psychology of killing. Now, thanks to Amazon, I can finally afford the purchase.

According to the blurb, Grossman's basic premises are as follows:
That humans possess the reluctance to kill their own kindThat this reluctance can be systematically broken down by use of...

So the wonderful people over at Amazon decided to offer as their  for 3/13/12. Zero Sight will be priced at 99 cents throughout the day, and Amazon will be sending out Emails, tweets, and Facebook posts about in addition to prominently displaying the book on their website.

I was absolutely thrilled to get the news. Many Kindle Daily Deal titles manage to break into the Kindle Top 100 for the day. That amount of exposure is priceless. There is really no...

Because tomorrow is going to be awesome, here's a complete  concert from their 1984/1985 world tour.

"Intro: Churchill's Speech"
"Aces High"
"2 Minutes to Midnight"
"The Trooper"
"Revelations"
"Flight of Icarus"
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
"Powerslave"
"The Number of the Beast"
"Hallowed Be Thy Name"
"Iron Maiden"
"Run to the Hills"
"Running Free"
"Sanctuary"

If you loved you some metal, be sure to .

And why is tomorrow going to be so awesome?

Well, you'll have to check out this

I was looking around the web for some inspiration and stumbled onto this cool collection of . All sorts of interesting pairings. Above is  andgettin' cancer together. 
I'm also lovin' this one:

Two of my favorite old-timers captured in a single frame.
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featured  and  by Zachary Rawlings in an article published today. For those of you that don't know of the site, Boing Boing is an influential that covers a little bit of everything. I peruse their site regularly, so I was pretty shocked to get the Google Alert this morning.

In, Jason Weisberger compared the two series. I haven't read Mr. Rawlings or Mr. Grossman's books yet, but it was still interestin...

 by Chuck Palahniuk is on sale at Amazon for 25 cents. Amazon is price matching Google's new eMedia venture called . Get it while it's hot.

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And we're back with a second helping of Gloomy Sing-off. Gloomy Sing-off takes different versions of the most demoralizing songs ever written and forces them to fight to the death!

The Champ:  "The Wolves" (original)


The Contender:  cover


Well, did the  pull it off?

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Once you enter,
A part of you never leaves.

The young know too little;
The old know too much.

Gangrene isn't so bad;
It's true despair that's scary.

Before complimenting a woman's teeth;
Inquire if she is wearing dentures.

There is great strength in asking for help;
There is great weakness is pretending you cannot hear.

Talking beats morphine;
Morphine beats wallpaper.

The diaper is always soiled;
Enter prepared to change it.

Everyone wants to go home,
Many won't.

The difference between your eighties and nin...