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Television Writer Strike and DVD Rentals
I wonder how much the Television Writers Strike has impacted the DVD Rental market. I know we have kept the people at Netflix going double time compared to previously when there was at least a little bit of good television to watch.
I guess the same holds true for Internet video. I wonder if YouTube traffic has increased significantly over the last several weeks?
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New TV Show - Political Idol
Now here we go, let’s just do the next election with a new TV Show called Political Idol. All 100 candidates that have announced plans to run can try out. We keep Simon Cowell for fun and add 4 more judges, a conservative, a liberal, and 2 more random judges.
Each week candidates can perform anything they want, a poem, a dance, a song, or anything else they want.
Then we call in our votes and narrow it down. With a little over 500 days left before the next election, it’s the perfect time.
Television and Kids
I saw an advertisement recently for a new DVD of Looney Tunes. These were the best cartoons of my childhood and we also had some great TV shows to watch, Gilligans Island, Hogan Heroes, The Brady Bunch and Andy Griffith just to name a few.
It is so different now for my kids, there are entire channels devoted to the kids. The major channels that I am familiar with are the Cartoon Network and Disney Channel. Disney has a revolving door of shows and stars it has created over time and they just kept creating more.
American Dragon: Jake Long
Cory In the [...]
Top Television Shows
According to Lycos the following list is the Top 10 Television shows. I watch more TV since installing a DVR, simply because I can record and watch it when I have time instead of trying to fit into the Networks schedule. Only #8 & #9 are on my recorded list. I guess I am still a non mainstream viewer.
1. Grey’s Anatomy
2. CSI
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Dancing with the Stars
5. CSI: Miami
6. Lost
7. CSI: New York
8. Criminal Minds
9. Without a Trace
10. Ugly Betty
Speed Linking 10-06-2006
I am not up to date on the Mark Foley story, but, I am sick of hearing his name already. Why does the MSM continue to focus on everything that is negative in this world?
Google is on a roll. More like a massive snowball rolling downhill, they have released so many excellent systems over the last 6 months it is amazing. And they have gone back and updated a lot of the older systems. Just look at the list:
Google Reader
Google Groups
Google Personalized Home Page
Google Gadgets
Google Base
Google Maps API v2
Google Calendar API
Google Web Toolkit
Google AJAX Search API
Google Checkout API
Google Gadgets for [...]
Signs You Have Grown Up
I received an email from my sister, uh, older sister with a list of things that make you realize you have grown up, or at least old.
2 things on this list really stood out to me.
You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
You watch the Weather Channel.
Now here is the real dilemma, I have heard songs I recognize playing in the background of the Weather Channel while I was watching it, or maybe a I should say listening to it. My computer desk faces away from the TV, so when I am on the computer I can not watch [...]
I was able to watch full episode of Dexter from Switzerland
Great news! I was able to watch full length episodes of both "Dexter" and "Californication" on YouTube, following CBS and Showtime's announcement on Friday to offer full length television shows on Google's video sharing site. Up until now, episodes available for viewing on a network Website or on Hulu.com were not available to viewers outside of the US, but for some (good) reason, I was able to watch them on YouTube, includingcommercials.Hopefully this is not an oversight that will be correct
The Loneliness Of A Ron Paul Supporter
It’s getting lonely out here. With the United States embracing economic socialism from both Republicans and Democrats, the voices for capitalism and free unfettered markets are bouncing around in an echo chamber. Those of us who believe in the America of our founders have faith in only a handful of people to redirect the fear-induced socialist policies back to the freedom of our founding. One such person is Ron Paul, the much media-maligned Republican Congressman and former presidential candida
Link Buffet: October 13, 2008
Beautiful Brian has uploaded the last episode of his television show to be hosted by hometown.aol.com Joey Chestnut ate 23 hot dogs in 5 minutes at his exhibition in Edmonton Barack Obama offers to judge a sweet potato pie eating contest Neurotic Pickle Eating contest held in conjunction with a New York City walking tour called A History of Jews, Sex and Politics on the Lower East Side Alan Sell completes three pound burger challenge in Athens, GA Pat Philbin notes that the shirts suppli
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In the iconic television series The Beverly Ellie mae clampett. October 13th, 2008 There is little prospect that drivers will ever again see gas prices retreat to the levels they enjoyed for much of the last generation. Ellie louise ellie love ellie love. This form is not for sending the story to a friend. But that was not enough for the pundits, the Congress or Sen. T that Ellie Mae a cutie pie I could always relate to her her innocence, sense of fun and love of animals, but that. Digg news:
This Week's Interesting DVD Releases (October 14th, 2008)
The fourth film in the Indiana Jones series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is out tomorrow, but if you need more of the man who made anthropology cool again, pick up Indiana Jones - The Complete Adventures Collection. Other theatrical releases this week include the well-received Romainian film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; a 15th anniversary edition of Chaplin, War, Inc., and two releases by the Criterion Collection, Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Robert Altman's Shor
The Scandals Don’t Matter
Reuters C-SPAN Zogby Poll: Obama Widens Lead To 6 Points Over McCain October 12th, 2008 By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief A new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll finds that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican Sen. John McCain to six points which is outside the margin of error - -the latest in a series of polls showing McCain increasingly trailing the Illinois Senator: Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama took a step into rarified
Five reasons to get involved in state legislative races
This is a special guest post from desmoines dem from Iowa, but it is entirely relevant to Florida. On July 4 I marched with volunteers and staff for Jerry Sullivan, Democratic candidate in Iowa House district 59. We don’t hear much about state legislative races on national blogs, because it would be overwhelming to keep up with what’s going on all over the country. But you should get involved on behalf of a good Democrat running for your state’s Assembly, House or Senate. Here’s why. 1. The
Chance Encounter that led to ‘Woodstock
Taiwan-born Hollywood director Ang Lee (??), 53, is tackling a new movie project, a comedy this time, about America’s famous Woodstock hippie music festival in 1969. Titled Taking Woodstock, the film’s screenplay was written by longtime Lee collaborator James Schamus, 49, from a book by Elliot Tiber with the same title. Tiber’s memoir was quietly published with little fanfare in 2007 by a small publisher in New York, but now the book, subtitled A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life,
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of the famous Cazalet Chronicles
Listen here: Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard won the heart of the British nation with her four-volume family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, which have become modern classics and were adapted for television by the BBC. Her own life story is just as colourful. She was born into a well-to-do bohemian family in 1923, and worked as an actress and model before becoming a writer. She went on to publish a dozen novels, as well an autobiography called Slipstream (Macmillan), which includes a candid acc
Massachusetts Trespassers, Thieves And Adventurers Face variety Of Criminal Charges West and South Of Boston
Today is Columbus Day. As we honor the adventurer who is celebrated as the man who discovered America (although other people were already living here at the time), I think it appropriate that we recognize other valiant efforts at similar discoveries. However, being that this is a daily Criminal Law blog, we unfortunately have to focus on a few not-so successful voyages. It turns out to be easy, though; last week was not a particularly good week for voyagers to the other side of the law, espec
On TV: Flobots, T.I., Ludacris
Rap acts on television this week include: Flobots, who perform on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ (NBC) on Monday. T.I., who visits ‘The View’ (ABC) on Monday and...
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Diamond watch at stake for Apple at Tuesday’s iPod event. Sign in to add a section with stories Balboa rocky shire talia for you, by using search history. Mary McNamara, one of my favorite writers and the television critic for the Los Angeles Times, has a quot. Stubborn Staph infections gone via tested natural remedies. Val and The Voice of Reason http www. Staph infection, also called methicillin resistant Volkswagen aureus MRSA infection, is an infection with a strain of Staphylococcus aure
T.I. on CNN talking about his life
T.I. sat down with CNN to talk about last year’s arrest, his upcoming jail stint, his singles being #1 & 2 on the charts and his album being #1 on the charts. I love this man and I’m really proud of him for keeping hope alive and moving on to a better future. Check out the video and let me know what you think.
On TV: Ra Ra Riot, Amy Lee, Scars On Broadway
Rock acts on television this week include: Ra Ra Riot, who perform on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ (CBS) on Monday. Amy Lee of Evanescence, who performs on ‘The Tonight Show...
“Bandwidth is the new oil.”
AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil. Just as the industrial revolution depended on oil and other energy sources, the information revolution is fueled by bandwidth. If we aren’t careful, we’re going to repeat the history of the oil industry by creating a
Andrea & Alan: How To Cover?
NBC's Andrea Mitchell is married to former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. So how should that affect her coverage of the current financial crisis? The New York Times' Brian Stelter inquires: The news division has allowed Ms. Mitchell to continue covering the presidential election, even when the candidates have debated the financial crisis, and has decided on a day-by-day basis what stories are not appropriate for her to cover. "To me it's a pretty easy balancing act," Mr. Capus said in an interv
Baller of the Day: Elgin Baylor
Elgin Baylor Career Statistics 27.4 PPG, 4.3 APG, 13.5 RPG, 43 FG%, 78 FT% “Had Elgin Baylor been born 25 years later, his acrobatic moves would have been captured on video, his name emblazoned on sneakers, and his face plastered on cereal boxes. But he played before the days of widespread television exposure, so among the only records of his prowess that remain are the words of those who saw one of the greatest ever to play. ‘He was one of the most spectacular shooters the game has ever
On Reading with Robin
JAN: I met Robin Kall about five years ago at a book conference. I was researching A Confidential Source, and because I had a talk radio host as a major character, I needed to learn how talk radio stations worked. Robin helped me get inside WHJJ in Providence and introduced me to some of its radio stars. Within a year, she had her very own radio show – devoted to books. Reading With Robin airs on WHJJ (920a.m.) from 7 to 8 a.m. Saturday mornings, and can be heard via podcast on her website.
david foster wallace on writing, today
What’s it like to be a young fiction writer today, in terms of getting started, building a career and so on? Personally, I think it’s a really neat time. I’ve got friends who disagree. Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There’s a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol’ “The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we’re marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah.” You can sit around and have these pity
network media player
Christmas shopping this early is beneficial. Not only its a bit cheaper but also to avoid the mad rush. Gadgets are sure to be included on my list. Like a universal remote control for our television, although manually changing channels had great effects on my abs haha. A network media player would surely come in handy too for our mini lan at our house. So we can watch what we’ve downloaded on our tv at the same time. Albeit it can also act as a file and media server with its built-in NAS capabi
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