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Progressive party

Fluttr Effect wrestle with their identity
The five members of Fluttr Effect are seated with me on folding chairs in a circle, so anybody walking into the warehouse-like back room of the Berklee College of Music practice space in Allston might assume there’s some kind of rock-and-roll therapy session or AA meeting in progress. Flttr Effect, "Awake" (mp3)
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 06, 2006

Game, show

Playing TV’s biggest hits
We’re only a few hands in and already I’ve gotten Al Swearengen mad. You're with me, mousepad: Games we'd like to see. By Mitch Krpata
By MITCH KRPATA | September 05, 2006

'Urge' overkill

Microsoft and MTV deliver too much of a bad thing
Windows Media files may be the 8-track-tapes of the digital-music universe, but Urge figures 13-year-olds will suck it up to get their mitts on exclusive TRL outtakes and AFI playlists.
By CARLY CARIOLI | May 31, 2006

Ladies might

The other side of Fluttr Effect
On Swallows and Sparrows, an all-girl trio spinoff from the four-year-old quintet packs its estrogen-charged members into one compact, softer-edged unit.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | April 24, 2006

Firewall

2.0 stars
You could trace a history of American anxiety through the bad guys Harrison Ford has had to fight to protect his on-screen family: industrialization in The Mosquito Coast (1987), the IRA in Patriot Games (1992), Russian terrorists in Air Force One (1997), himself in What Lies Beneath (2000).
By PETER KEOUGH | February 09, 2006

In it to win it

Some of EFF’s recent legal victories
When two Swarthmore students published information about major security flaws in Diebold e-voting machines, the corporation rattled its swords, claiming copyright infringement.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 09, 2006