Epinions Recent Reviews for anecdoter

Pre-requisite For a Soul

Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:03:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Since Don Henley is one of the artist who writes either really good songs or songs that you avoid like the plague, it is hard to justify why anyone would want to buy any of his first three solo albums after the release of this greatest hits collection...

IBM OS/2 Warp: The Undead OS

Fri, 24 Nov 2000 00:51:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Abandoned, for the most part, by its creator and shunned by most computer users, OS/2 is the Frankenstein’s monster of the computing world. A victim of Microsoft’s hyper-aggressive marketing machine and IBM’s strategic blundering, this excellent piece...

Mandatory Reading

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:41:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Anyone who purchases an older home should be given this magazine as a gift. Each issue brings many informative and helpful issues and varieties of problems that will creep up on those of us who own an older home. While this magazine mainly focuses...

The Drill That Tells You When the Job is Done

Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:47:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - I must admit, sometimes... quite often really, I think I'm smarter than I actually am. Fortunately for me, this drill tells me the task at hand is done. Whenever this Black and Decker thinks that it is finished, it pops whatever attachment is in...

Frustration and hope

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:07:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Precariously balanced between the joys of family life and the frustrating despair of a society that seems to be crashing and taking the entire planet with it, Don Henley courts almost every emotion imaginable in his latest album. Never content to...

Cliff Notes for the Mechanically Inclined

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:16:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Great New Products? You bet. Excellent automotive and home hints and tips? They're in there. Good, informative articles? Not quite.

Popular Mechanics always has intriguing covers, usually of some fantastic new mechanical beast...

The Most Hated Def Leppard Album

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:17:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Shunned and vanquished to the forgotten pages of their relatively large catalog, Def Leppard's Slang is probably their least known and respected album. While good bands can put out bad music - sometimes lots of it - in this case, all this disgust...

The Incredible Shrinking Catalog

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:10:30 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - This magazine was once the staple of computer users and IT managers everywhere; no longer is this the case - as the size of the magazine continued to plummet, so has the readership.

Personally, I have never liked this magazine - there is...

Metacrawler: Multitasking Information Demon

Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:21:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - While the web might appear to be a quagmire of contradictory information, there are several slabs of solid ground for users to walk on; developed as a powerful parallel search engine, Metacrawler quickly rearranges chaos into order.

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Where's the beef?

Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:44:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - I must admit that I am as fanatical about Arby's as a person can possibly be about a chain restaurant - much to the dismay of my friends who groan at my suggestions for eating here for the third time in a week. However, due to inflation and...

Nike Slayer

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:42:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - This is a wicked shoe - and I mean that in a good way! I've had my pair of New Balance 803s for over a month, I will keep buying these shoes for as long as they make them.

Disgusted by the ever increasing girth of most tennis shoes, I had...

Self Sufficiency FAQ

Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:34:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - This magazine is for those people who wish to be less dependent on the less reliable than desired infrastructure of modern living. Chock full of information on how to use alternative fuel sources (such as bamboo), and how to live off a modest plot...

Potent Anti-Cancer Weapon

Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:41:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - In recent years, much publicity has gone to the potential power of antioxidants - an for good reason. These vitamins and minerals bond with oxidants, preventing them from doing damage to the trillions of cells that make up the human body. Oxidants,...

More Sparkle and Shine, Less Horsepower

Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:59:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - While sometimes it is interesting to energize one's fantasies with 400 horsepower, $300,000 supercars, a comparison of these rather expensive toys every couple of months gets tiring - especially if you can't even afford a single monthly payment on one...

Never Again

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:32:15 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Frisch's and Frisch's Big Boy is a chain of restaurants that are just a step above McDonald's and Co, but just about below every place else. Haven eaten there far too many times, I can honestly say that the last time will be the final time.
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Needed for more than bones and teeth

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:43:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Bombarded by milk commercials, most people know that calcium is required for strong bones and teeth, but do not realize how vital this mineral actually is. Parts of your body that you wouldn't expect require calcium to perform their day to day...

Toledo Blade: Why's everyone trashing the local rag?

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:44:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Most likely because it is a biased newspaper that spends more time furthering the agenda of its editor than of actually reporting the news. To make matters worse, it is the only newspaper in Toledo, a medium sized city with a metropolitan population of...

Run for the border, hopefully it's the right border

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:37:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - As with all franchised restaurants, eating a Taco Bell can be a hit or miss experience. While I don't like to admit too loudly, Taco Bell is my favorite fast food place next to Arby's. As I have become more and more nutritionally aware I have found...

Utne Reader: Reader's Digest for Scholars

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:38:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Tired of run of the mill articles; bored by the seemingly identical articles that proliferate most magazines. Or do you just prefer a diverse and expansive magazine that never delivers the same thing twice.

Compiled from magazines all...

High interest rates, steep fees, and friendly people

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:46:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Tired of being charged several dollars a month for a savings account that was under the minimum deposit, I decided to switch banks. Since my grandmother has been a customer of Charter One for many years and is pleased with their services, I decided...

For everything your newspaper does not write about

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:43:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - If you've ever been curious to find out what all that Agent Orange has been doing to people in Southeast Asia, or how the black churches across the country are dealing with the AIDS epidemic, then start reading this mag.

Mother Jones is...

A Plastic Rhino

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:13:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Shards of glass, chunks of plaster, nails, screws and splinters of wood this vacuum gobbles them all down without wincing. Over the past eight months I have run my Rigid Wet/Dry vac through the gauntlet and I am very pleased with the results.
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Harder to get than you think

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:33:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Zinc is an essential nutrient, In addition to its well-publicized ability to boost your immune system, Zinc is aids and is an essential ingredient in over 300 enzymatic process that occur in the body. Zinc is also a potent antioxidant, and research...

Information to Suffocate In

Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:44:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Too much too soon, that is, in four words, my Harper's subscription. Each issue is spewing with tasty morsels of information and fresh opinion. It seems as though I just finish savoring the last bite when the latest issue arrives - time to gorge...

Pill Poppers Unite

Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:14:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author anecdoter - Want to live longer? Want to delay the crippling effects of growing old? Well, you can, according to this magazine, by taking fifty or sixty different pills a day. Sound fun? Read on.

As a not-for-profit organization, the Life...