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magellan
member since 04/25/2003
I'm a guy from San Francisco, California/United States
About me: ** new pic: sitting in the sun in Austin ** I'm a tall, basketball playing, indie pop listening, book reading, tech obsessed, mild mannered guy from San Francisco. I try to be nice to everybody, and I get a kick out of smart people that can think for themselves.
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2 hours ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Brizzly in CrunchBase Companies:
thanks, these guys are apparently more ex-googlers.

3 hours ago

Review Icon magellan reviewed Brizzly in CrunchBase Companies:
Brizzly is a web based reader that lets you set up a single dashboard to read multiple Twitter feeds as well as your FB feed. It does some neat things like show you photos in your Twitter feed without making you click on a link to somewhere else. You can also post photos to Twitter right from the Brizzly dashboard.

It's a young service - Brizzly just went into open beta today, and there are still some big gaps - you can't browse FB profiles for example, nor can you post a photo to FB.

But it's a marvelously clean UI. None of the other Twitter / FB clients have grabbed me so far. But I think I'm going to give Brizzly a try as my day to day feed reader.
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4 hours ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Blurb in CrunchBase Companies:
Great review.

I've always wondered if an application like this would work for RIA. For some of us with thousands of reviews, it would read kind of like a diary. A bizarro, rambling, ADD diary, but a diary nonetheless.

4 hours ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Gillette Fusion in Razors:
sadly, I think you guys are right. I can't wait for the Gillette Bentley, though I dread it as well.

19 hours ago

Review Icon magellan reviewed First Impressions of Earth (The Strokes) in Pop Music:
First Impressions of Earth really sounds no different than 2001's Is This It. The band really hasn't grown, or experimented, at all.

I don't really have a problem with this.

I liked what they sounded like in 2001, and I like that they still sound like that.
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20 hours ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Gillette Fusion in Razors:
What does the powered version do?

20 hours ago

Review Icon magellan reviewed Gillette Fusion in Razors:
Every time I switch to a new Gillete razor (sensor, sensor excel, mach 1, mach 2, mach 3, etc.), I swear it will be my last change. Each razor seems better than the last, and each razor is certainly good enough.

But Gillette keeps innovating, and the shave does keep getting better.

The Gillette Fusion has (I think) five blades on the main shaving surface, and the back of the razor doubles as a sideburn clipper. The shave is something like running a zamboni over your face - it's such a wide shaving surface that the scruff just comes off.

But that being said, these things just keep getting pricier and pricier. The Fusion is something like $12 off the bat, without replacement cartridges. And I don't really understand what the battery power is for, and I I'm skilled enough to use the normal shaving surface on my sideburns without needing the blade on the back.

I think I'm done upgrading - the Gillette Fusion will be my last switch.
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20 hours ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Titanic in Drama Movies:
I'm still going to see Avatar.

21 hours ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Gigantic in Comedy:
I pronounce you..... "The Best Rater."

2 days ago

Comment Icon magellan commented on a review of Learn That Name! in iPhone Business Apps:
Seems like an obscure, but powerful app.

In other news, this would have made a great comment as opposed to review. I can't predict the future, but I have the sad suspicion that RIA's powerful secret police force will deem this review to be off topic.
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