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Raj Patel is a technology culture blogger and architecture professional in Toronto. Editor of Ohmpage.
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Jess Henderson is a self-professed culture sponge based in Toronto with a soft spot for food, music, and fashion.
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Court Sin is a multidiciplined designer at a top Toronto architecture firm, an artist, and contributing author.
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Sachin Hingoo lives in Toronto and is a dedicated follower of tech culture, video games, and film.
Hi. Welcome to Ohmpage. We try to deliver content we find interesting ourselves and encourage our readers to participate. We're undergoing some changes for 2010, expanding the site to include more voices and variety by adding new contributing authors. We've got a new site design and as always are encouraging reader participation. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us about our content. Ohmpage is fully independent and run on a volunteer basis. Much of our content is syndicated elsewhere on the web and we are lisenced under the Creative Commons. If you would like us to review your product or content or if you would like to advertise with Ohmpage please email us about it.

Review: Jonah Hex

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Jonah Hex is a movie adaptation of the graphic novel by DC comics by the same name. On paper it seems to have a lot of ingredients to a fun summer action blockbuster. I know a few people who are even excited to check it out. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s a hard rock western tale of revenge with lots of explosions and a seasoned cast. What could go wrong?
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Review: Living Colours

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We first saw the Philips living Colours in 2006 when it was still a concept design and fell in love instantly. It looked fantastic and was such an exciting idea. A couple of years later in 2008 we saw the commercialized version and it looked a little grim. It had lost a lot of it’s initial charm and was a shadow of it’s former self. now another two years later in 2010 I’ve actually gotten my hands on one of the commercial units courtesy of Philips themselves and it’s become clear that I was both right and wrong. continue…

Is that a BFG in your pocket or are you just berserk to see me?

Doom II is close to my heart. It remains among my favorite video games of all time. It is such a classic that any time it gets re-released I get both excited and scared. I’ve tried all the official releases (though the game has been unofficially ported to countless platforms by now) and now theres a new one to add to the list: Xbox Live Arcade. Yes, they’re still releasing incarnations of Doom II and it’s still subject to change so let’s dive in and see what we’ve got this time. continue…

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Comparisons to Clint Eastwood’s turn in Gran Torino will obviously be leveled at Harry Brown, both films being old-dudes-out-for-justice thrillers,  but I think it bears far more similarities to Charles Bronson’s Death Wish movies than Torino. Eastwood’s project is far more layered and bites off a lot more in terms of subject matter – issues of race, abandonment, and a father-son element between Eastwood’s character and his young neighbor are all dealt with varying degrees of success. Harry Brown, on the other hand, is a much more straight-ahead affair.  Michael Caine’s Brown is played with a perfect subtlety and an incendiary rage bubbling just below the surface of his frail exterior, but his morality is never in doubt (nor the immorality of those on whom he turns his wrath).  Contrast this with the racial epithet-spewing, callous Eastwood in Torino, who is uniformly unlikeable until pretty much the end of the film and whose character is far more nuanced than Brown’s. continue…

Review: Split/Second

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In a world where Michael Bay has an unlimited budget and a reality-TV show of his own, he might come up with something like Split/Second from Disney Interactive Studios, developed by Black Rock Studio. Indeed that’s loosely the premise of the game.  You are a contestant on a television show in which you race against other drivers on a sacrificial race track which is one part urban recreation and two parts obstacle course and all demolition zone. The result is a classic arcade racer feel set in the middle of what can often feel like a war-zone. continue…

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