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• Ten Ways to Tell You’re Bohemian

  

  Written by Zeromage 15 Comments
  Last Updated:: February 20, 2010

  God help you if you’re on this list and you’re officially nominated as Bohemian. It’s time to take a hard look at yourself in the mirror and to change your ways. You’re probably young, incredibly immature, and come from a lot of money that you pretend not to have. “Slumming it” in some city where you go to college, you are everyone everywhere at all times in your own mind…you are nothing. Without expatiating any further than what was just said, just do whatever you can to avoid these next obstacles in your life that could forever make you into a complete idiot.

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• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Vote

  

  Written by destructomaximo 11 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 11, 2008

  A couple of days ago Zeromage released the Top 5 Reasons Not to Vote. In this post, DestructoMaximo responds to that article with the Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Vote.

  It’s the prime of the political season and everyone is going ape-shit over who their going to vote for and why. What causes this exaggerated mania? There are many reasons. Everywhere you look in modern mediums of communication, you hear about the presidential election like we are approaching the apocalypse. You are being force fed canards about how important it is to vote and how your vote “counts”. In this brief list, we will go through the reasons why not to vote, and how this over-exaggeration for having to vote is not the God given privilege of being “civically responsible”, but the animal herd trying to express it’s identity in it’s banality.

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• Top 5 Reasons Not to Vote

  

  Written by Zeromage 16 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 10, 2008

  It’s the prime of the political season and everyone is going ape-shit over who they’re going to vote for and why. What causes this exaggerated mania? There are many reasons. Everywhere you look in modern mediums of communication, you hear about the presidential election like we are approaching the apocalypse. You are being force fed canards about how important it is to vote and how your vote “counts”. In this brief list, we will go through the reasons why not to vote, and how this over-exaggeration for having to vote is not the God given privilege of being “civically responsible”, but the animal herd trying to express it’s identity in it’s banality.

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• Ask Old-Wizard: Physics Edition

  

  Written by Zeromage 3 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 25, 2008

  As some of you know, one of the staff members of Old-Wizard was a physics major back in his college days, and this week Old-Wizard answers some of your physics-related questions. Remember to send your questions to OldWizard.com@gmail.com.
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• Old-Wizard Officially Endorses Gene Amondson for President in 2008!

  

  Written by Zeromage 10 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 7, 2008

  As many of our fans know, we here at OW are ardent prohibition activists. Why you ask? Mainly because Old-wizard.com is founded on old rum running and bootlegging money. And to be honest we miss the good ‘ole days of speak easyies, tommy guns, and fake pet stores. We have our bath tubs ready, and our distillers sanitized, we just need a man that’s insane enough to run on a prohibition platform.

  Enter Gene Amondson. This man is nuts, and by nuts we mean completely insane. If its one thing the U.S. needs its another expensive drug war, you know, because the other ones are going so well. I mean its impossible to buy illegal substances in this country…. right? Besides that we all know how well the government does when it stands up to big business. I mean destroying a multi-billion dollar industry that provides millions of jobs all over the country won’t negatively effect our economy at all and since the economy is doing so well right now, now is definitely the time to remove more jobs from the hard working American public. Besides all of these well thought out reasons, let’s face it, after you turned 21, drinking just wasn’t as much fun. You know you miss the high school house parties, bon fires in the middle of the woods, and sneaking around your parents. With Gene at the wheel these times will never end.

  For these reasons we think that Gene Amondson would be the best pick for the next president. He’s a chainsaw wielding, death costume wearing, wine not drinking, priest from the back woods of Washington state. The breeding ground of great leaders. It’s time to bring back bootlegging! It’s time to bring back rum running! Its time for Prohibition! Its time for Gene Amondson!

  P.S. We would have endorsed Obama but the stupid NY times beat us too it. Bastards!

• Top 10 Philosophers of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 110 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 7, 2008

  When making the list for the top 10 philosophers of all time, much dismay came over us when we realized how many great philosophers were not being included.   More than any of them, Wittgenstein was the most difficult to omit. Aristotle was not so much of a problem because he was not as much of a “pure” philosopher as the ones on our list. If we were to make a top 10 scientists of all time, certainly Aristotle would be in the top 3 for creating the idea of experiential science in the first place. Augustine, Spinoza, Locke, and Schopenhauer were other figures that were difficult to omit. We feel that Wittgenstein more than any of the omissions, could be placed anywhere in our top 10, for having the same groundbreaking effect on philosophy that Hume had in absolutely challenging its truth claims and limiting its job to making language and thought less muddy from the philosophers who muddied it up in the first place. We share these thoughts with you before releasing our list in hopes of circumscribing the debate and argument to substantial content rather than defamatory gestures. When creating a list for the top 10 philosophers of all time, you have to expect an inordinate amount of passion and alacrity with others addressing where they think each philosopher should be in their placements. Philosophy, as the love of wisdom, hits at the core of all human beings. It defines them as a specific self in the face of everything else. When people discuss philosophy in a serious, rigorous manner, not only is there a conversation happening between a group of interlocutors, but a feeling of their own lives being on the line in defining the best way for the human being to live and the best way for the human being to describe his world. We welcome an endless and eternal dialogue. Let the games begin.

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• The Top 5 Web Browsers

  

  Written by bug 11 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 6, 2008

  The text your eyes are currently reading is being displayed to you via a digital medium commonly known as a Web Browser. Quite simply, a web browser is a piece of software that interfaces with an active internet connection to allow the user to display websites, transfer files and display media. Over the years web browsers have been upgraded, retooled and fancified to display websites faster, more securely, and with style. Here at Old-Wizard.com we’re obviously heavy users of the internet, often hogging bandwidth at our homes, friend’s houses and free wireless hot spots along the way. We have used several different types of web browsers and in the spirit of Old-Wizard, we decided it was time to post our top five web browsers list.

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• HD DVD is Dead!!!

  

  Written by bug No Comments
  Last Updated:: February 19, 2008

  Today marks a day of a new technology crashing to the ground. Toshiba Corporation, the brainchild behind the glorified new movie media known as High Definition Digital Video Disc, or HD-DVD for short, pulled the plug on their so called superior technology. The ongoing and bloody battle has been raging for months where Sony’s technology known as Blu Ray was going head to head with HD-DVD. This was known to come to an end at some time, as the differences in the two mediums were virtually unnoticeable. The Blu Ray discs hold a bit more amount of data on them, which makes them technically superior to the HD-DVD medium. The only fall back that has been mentioned about the Blu Ray is that the protective coating on the bottom of the disc is mere fractions thinner than the protective coating of the HD-DVD discs. Users have to be more gentle and show more care for their Blu Ray Discs when handling them, which can be seen as a downfall. These are the main differences in the two mediums, and both of them offer the same exact high fidelity and the difference can’t be noticed by the human eye. When it really comes down to it, the amount of movie companies that were choosing HD-DVD were dwarfed by the amount of companies who chose Blu Ray. It was always a disappointment when a new movie came out to DVD, and the company chose HD-DVD instead of Blu Ray. Well now that has been laid to rest, and in the 34th round of fighting, HD-DVD is down for the count. Blu Ray is now the king of media, and improvements will be made to this technology to offer its viewers an even more intense viewing experience.

• Oink is Dead

  

  Written by bug 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: October 23, 2007

  Today marks a sad day in the realm of digital music and file sharing. What was first started as oink.co.uk and more recently transferred to oink.cd, was the cozy little corner of the internet with a nice music sharing community. Users were able to upload full albums to the site and share their beloved musical jewels with other users. As long as users kept their sharing ratio at a decent level, everybody was allowed to take and give music or other files as they wished. We have caught news that today the owners of oink.cd got their servers raided in Amsterdam, and the site has been completely shut down. The greedy music giants have shut down a perfect utopia of people who have enjoyed and shared their music for years and years. When will the music battle finally end? When will we be back to full album sharing over a digital medium? This was a breakthrough service, which united people on a common ground, and has been devastated instantly, with no warning or remorse.

• Review: Windows Vista

  

  Written by bug 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: August 6, 2007

  Attempting to install and use the so-called newest, latest and greatest version of Microsoft Windows is like having a migraine headache, combined with sleep deprivation, and intense hunger, all while having a rare South American strain of the flu. Even if you are someone who is somewhat familiar with installing a Windows operating system, consider yourself a n00b when attempting to install Windows Vista. Sure, it looks flashy and nice on the outside, but under the hood lies a beast with sharpened fangs, out to cause you hair pulling frustration.

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