tunequest

The other day, I was perusing the ol' server logs, doing my periodic behind-the-scenes examination of this site. Mostly it was the usual stuff: popular URLs, a couple image hot-linkers and an ungodly amount of Googlebot crawls. But then something caught my eye: a new and intriguing referring site. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Empire_(soundtrack) I checked it out, trying to find the connection to here, and discovered a lengthy and detailed encyclopedia article on the ...

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Dilemma: When using coverflow view in iTunes 7, your albums containing multiple artists (soundtracks, tribute albums, benefit albums, etc) show up with multiple, individual covers. One way to fix that is to set the Compilation tag check box for those albums. But what if, for whatever reason, you don't want to set an album as a compilation? (They're your reasons; I won't question them. For instance, you may not ...

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In 1996, LucasFilm embarked on a multi-channel marketing project in an effort to make more money off the aging Star Wars franchise. The result was Shadows of the Empire, a venture that involved all the machinations of a movie marketing and tie-in campaign, without the production of an actual movie. In total, the endeavor included a novel, comic books, video games, trading cards, toys (of course) and, most ...

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