News: Dunder Mifflin Spokane
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Gabe: I'm pretty frustrated with the Dunder Mifflin Infinity ARG. The site functionality is just trash. The biggest offense is the piece of shit forum they've got. It's the one way for the whole branch to talk together and it's absolute crap. Also I still can't hire new employees. There's almost 1500 people waiting to join the Spokane branch but trying to hire anymore than two at a time breaks the site for me. I contacted tech support last week and never heard back. A couple people have suggested that the website being shitty is on purpose. I don't know if I'm ready to believe it's all some ironic joke. What I do know is that interacting with their game is frustrating and I'm not sure I want to bother with it anymore.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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Nick is in. So is Adam. Joe for sure. Dane may take a little   longer.
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By Katy Moeller, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec.
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Plus: Adobe earnings, outlook top Street...TiVo swings to a loss...HP profit gains on cost cuts, cheaper components.
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Tycho: The whole reason I wrote that other post was to link the new article about it at 1up, and I didn't even manage to do that - here you go. In a way, I'm glad I didn't link it before - in the intervening period, a new episode of the 1up show has dropped that has a ton of interview and video material for every part of Episode 2 - including TF2 and Portal. It's the top video on this page. Unbelievably delicious.(CW)TB
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By Mike Prager, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 14--A 39-lot clustered housing development is being proposed along Newman Lake and Lakeview Road.   It is one of three large-acreage developments recently proposed across the county.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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DJ Howard Stern is to get his own cartoon series. Plus news in brief on Sandra Bullock, Patty Duke and Franz Ferdinand.
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Out of the blue comes an e-mail from my brother, Miles: "All confirmed. Rehearsals are next Friday, and your show with Andy Summers and Incubus at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas will be on Sunday."
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SEATTLE (Ticker) -- The Fresno State defense forced five turnovers and scored three touchdowns lifting the Bulldogs to a 35-16 victory over Washington in the season opener for both teams.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Neal Conan discusses the latest convention news with NPR&#39;s Ken Rudin and Comedy Central&#39;s Lewis Black.
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Gabe: ***STAR WARS NERD CRAP!***I've been meaning to mention Karen's new book in the Republic Commando series for a while but I wanted to wait until I finished it. I'm a ridiculously slow reader so I didn't actually wrap it up until a few weeks ago. If you're reading the series "True Colors" is out in stores and it's great. If you're not reading the series you should start at the beginning. Karen is essentially covering the Clone Wars like a real war correspondent would. Seeing as that was her previous job it makes sense. She's looking at the war and asking the questions a real journalist would ask. "Why do we all of a sudden have a clone army? Don't they take ten years to grow?" "How are we paying for this?" "Why doesn't anyone ever see veterans or wounded clone troopers returning home?" She is cutting through the Galactic/imperial propaganda and showing the war from the point of view of the soldiers. Star Wars fiction tends to be about Jedi. All the movies are about Jedi and almost all of the books tend to revolve around Jedi and their lives. Republic Commando is refreshing because it's not about Jedi. It's about soldiers fighting a war that the government will never let them win. The newest book also happens to introduce my new favorite Star Wars characters. Gaib and the Tk-0 droid are data bounty hunters. Essentially hackers for hire. So fucking awesome.  *** END OF STAR WARS NERD CRAP***  I also have some Child's Play updates for you. If you couldn't make it to the dinner last week or you just want to remember how rad it was, you can hit Kiko's Flickr for his pictures. As of last Friday we're up to $850,000 for the year. It looks like we'll have no problem breaking a million before we wrap things up in January.This is the last day for a very cool Heroes auction over on eBay. The auction was assembled by our friend Ollie who works on the show. He managed to get a pilot scrip signed by a bunch of the cast members as well as a bunch of other great Heroes collectibles.-Gabe out
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roundup Plus: Computer scientists slam e-voting machines..."The Sims 2" hits 1 million sales...Adobe, Kodak team on photo printing...Cray promotes two execs.
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By Meghann Cuniff, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Dec. 16--In the mood for some holiday festivities? Students at the Lutheran Academy of the Master in Coeur d'Alene, are performing their annual Christmas pageant tonight in the school's gymnasium.
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By The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 10--A former Coeur d'Alene resident was killed and his wife, a Spokane native, was seriously injured earlier this month in a head-on crash in California that also took the life of another.   Derrek T.