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S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. G.R.I.P.E.S. F.O.M.S. O.M.G.I.G.P. – do not watch if you aren’t 16 and male unless you find South Park uproarious.
If you have Silverlight you can wander over to Microsoft’s History of the Internet
otherwise YouTube has most of the clips, just have to look around. Sort of like looking for discreet hair removal products.
YouTube – New Ford Focus “Beautifully Arranged”.
The comments suggest that the instruments are “real” and the music is actually played on it.
Entertaining. Not all commercials are obnoxious.
I wonder how Artzybasheff would illustrate TV “news” commentators?
For more like this wander off to see more of Artzybasheff’s work.
Nine years ago, Mr. Ellison sued Internet service providers for failing to stop a user from posting four of his stories to an online newsgroup. Since settling that suit, he has pursued more than 240 people who have posted his work to the Internet without permission. “If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,†he said.
via With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com:
Whenever I hear Harlan Ellison’s name I see Hunter Thompson’s image. What’s up with that?
This is more than a little hypocritical of me, because I’m lousy about checking other people’s blogs. I’m told there’s a way to have blogs you like emailed directly to your Inbox so that you don’t have to go look every day to see if something new has been posted. Perhaps one of you know how to do that and could share the trick with the rest of us in a reply comment to this post?
(Via Musings.)
I’ll be helping Monique figure out how to cope in the land of feeds.
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days.
Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.
The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla – Dick Cavett Blog – NYTimes.com.
Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.
Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.
“We are from, not there!”
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The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.
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