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Archive for "Nov 2008"

Stories from the week of Nov. 24

One of the things I’ve always planned on doing with this blog is giving people access to some of the stories I’ve written at the Independent. I’ve finally decided to just plunge in and start doing a weekly round up. Here goes.

Embracing the Dakota Language
A story about Upper Sioux Community students at Yellow Medicine East [...]

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Dropping Cable Television … Maybe.

I’m currently in the process of thinking about possibly dropping cable television. Sure, that means giving up my beloved TiVo and loosing out on a lot of content from the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic (man I watch a lot of documentary stuff), but I’m finding Netflix and my vast DVD collection are keeping me [...]

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Netflix drops its used DVD store

A few days ago a friend called letting me know Netflix was doing away with its used DVD store. As a Netflix member and collector of DVDs, I have used the used section of the Web site a number of times to pick up movies mostly for $5.99.
Netflix started selling used DVDs a few years [...]

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