Comedy Central has announced that on November 1, they will launch Motherload, a broadband IPTV service. Yes, it will include The Daily Show because, if it didn’t, no one would have noticed the press release. This is a cool idea; Comedy Central has decent traction among the high-bandwidth crowd thanks to the Daily Show and […]
I take Paypal, bad checks, and whompum. Hell, at this price, I’ll be busy for the next week setting up Splogspot accounts. My blog is worth $3,951.78.How much is your blog worth? Link
Funny stuff. “Never mind those. Listen — I can use Google’s logic to get free copies of films, music — anything I want! All I have to do is borrow the CDs or DVDs, downloaded music or video or whatever, copy them, and then offer some sort of ‘fair use’ excerpt index service, just like […]
…but I like Anne Rice even less now. She found the Lord (he’s been missing, yah know). Link
Via Dan Gillmor, we get a link to Dave Winer. I’m not a huge Dave Winer fan, with all that “I did this so you must credit me” crap for technology that is everywhere. We all know that Tim Berners-Lee came up with the web, but we don’t put his name next to every mention […]
Quick follow-up. Ars Technica has a great summary of the events along with some new details. The Penny Arcade fans have banned together and worked up a detailed account of Jack’s activities. One of the forum members has reported the entire incident to the FBI, including the detailed report (forum thread here [NSFW language]). The […]
Arbor Update, a local Ann Arbor blog, recently posted about the riots in Toledo (CNN story). Throughout the day, I’ve been following the hilarious thread as trolls are driven to the post, likely from a search or some post in the neo-Nazi forum somewhere. After some people called for the racist crap be deleted, one […]
I tried to post the following message on your “forums” in response to the hit piece tonight on the governor, but you have a character limit. My commend got deleted as well; must be a technical problem. So, if someone would get get lucky enough to surf over here, here’s my response to Steve Wilson’s […]
I must build this! A homemade Peltier Beer (erm… Beverage) cooler. Ok, not really (I can’t solder to safe my life), but this is pretty cool. Link [via Engadget]