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In his nanotech post yesterday, Brooke Crothers set up a pretty simplistic dichotomy: "Will consumers buy a thin, light, relatively fast $1,800 MacBook Air or a thin, light, ultrasmall, not-as-fast $450 Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 Netbook?"

His piece, which discusses which ultraportables will come out on top in 2009, seems intent on setting up a battle between two different laptop categories as if there are only two options, as if the two categories are comparable, and as if the choice is an either/or.

You can be a girl in fable!

Funny head to head on which RPG you should buy.

otherpunks include: PERNPUNK, TWILIGHTPUNK, NIMHPUNK, SEUSSPUNK

Looks like Repo is not the cult masterpiece that the fans were hoping it would be.

The hilarious Genevieve Valentine eviscerates 10 movies that make non-fantasy fans run far away from the genre. The list includes Willow, Labyrinth, Excalibur, Somewhere in Time, and Twilight.

How to Get Your Girlfriend (or Boyfriend, Best Friend, or Other Person You Like to Spend Time With) into Gaming

1. Consider dating someone who is already a gamer

Season two ended on a dramatic note -- Nathan Petrelli shot by an unknown assailant! Season three began with another shocker -- the unknown assailant was Peter Petrelli... from the future! Oh here we go again. And the heart-wrenching scene where Nathan dies in the hospital and Future!Peter kisses him goodbye would have been more tension-y had the audience not known full well that Nathan was not going to be dead. We were mostly tipped off by his picture all over the promotional materials. But even if that had not been so, this is Heroes, the show where white male cast members never die for good.