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Tentative Review of Hulu

NBC broke away from iTunes to offer its shows through Amazon (which only works on a Windows PC— no iPods etc) and through their new venture Hulu. Apple offered NBC a revenue stream, free promotion, free bandwidth and an attractive and simple delivery package— it is hard to see how spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try and feebly push customers back into an old business model will work out well. Read more [...]

Arguements for or Against YouTube (a new hamster dance)

I was recently involved in a discussion about how useful YouTube is. I guess part of freedom is the freedom to decide whether or not you like something, or in my case to be unsure if you find something to be stupidly funny or just stupid. Read more [...]

Pole Position & Space Invaders— with People!

It is fun to see classic games acted out by people in stop-motion animation, but I might like the sound effects best. It looks like these folks also did a version of Pong, but how many of these does a person need? Read more [...]

Evil Can Still be Kind of Funny

Ignoring the arguments about whether Google is as good as they claim to be, one has to admit that they have a sense of humor. My brother showed me a couple of other cases of slightly evil and very evil being kind of funny. Read more [...]

Look What That Wacky DMCA is Doing Now!

CNet reports: Indeed, Richard Silver, who filed the copyright for the Electric Slide in 2004, said on one of his Web pages that the DeGeneres Show had been putting up a legal fight as he tried to get compensation for a segment that aired in February 2006 in which actress Teri Hatcher and other dancers performed the popular wedding shuffle. Read more [...]

Randall Park and Dr Miracles

The last installment of Dr. Miracles aired on Channel 102 just recently, you can catch the entire series, only four "episodes" on youTube or Channel 102, they are all funny but *very* inappropriate for the little ones. Read more [...]