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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:16:43 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Microsoft Office 2010 reviewed.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  It's difficult to overstate the success of Microsoft Office. Calling it one of the best-selling tech products of all time is a bit like calling Michael Jackson a very popular musician—it's certainly accurate, but it woefully misses the mark. According to Microsoft, more than 500 million people around the world use the Fantastic Four of productivity apps—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Yet no one simply uses Office; for many, these programs are an essential daily tool kit, the ever-present background hum of the white-collar grind.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236143/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Farhad Manjoo</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:27:34 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made me feel terrible about myself, and I loved it.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  You may have heard that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 5 million copies in North America and Britain on its first day of release last week—that's $310 million in sales, what publisher Activision calls "the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment."* Nevertheless, the game's more noteworthy achievement is an artistic one: It's a first-person shooter that plays as a tragedy, not a power fantasy. It's the most anti-war war game I've ever played, a murder simulator that won't let you forget the nature of your actions.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235774/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Chris Suellentrop</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:41:26 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Murder, looting, pizza theft, and other hazards of cooperative video-gaming.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This past year, during a brave attempt to weather the sweaty show floor of the video-game industry's annual E3 conference, I stopped by the enormous display dedicated to Nintendo. Unlike many publishers that show videos of their upcoming titles but won't let the public play them, Nintendo had bushels of flat-screen televisions pumping its biggest game of the year, the New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The most marketable feature of this new version of the franchise is the addition of four-player cooperative play, meaning I had the chance to play with three random strangers. I stepped up to the booth, grabbed a controller, and immediately had flashbacks to my youth—the many parts of my childhood, at least, when I'd start crying because of various Nintendo crimes perpetrated by my younger brother.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235587/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jamin Brophy-Warren</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:51:42 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Apocalypse Then: a two-part series on the lessons of Y2K.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In 1993, a tech consultant named Peter de Jager wrote an article for Computerworld with the headline "Doomsday 2000." When the clock struck midnight on 1/1/00, he wrote, many of our computers would lose track of the date, and very bad things would happen as a result.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235357/entry/0/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6518" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6518" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Farhad Manjoo</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:58:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  According to the research firm Experian Simmons, online holiday shopping has started earlier than ever this year. Like most people, you likely use the same password for all of your favorite shopping sites. Back in July, Farhad Manjoo explained why that's a really bad idea—and that there's a head-slappingly easy way to fix up all your passwords in a few minutes. His original article is reprinted below.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235503/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Farhad Manjoo</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:06:24 EST</pubDate>
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