Friday, November 30, 2007
Another Favorite 80s Video
Bananarama - Trick of the Night. Not their best selling song, but my favorite song and video of theirs.
I think I’ll do another list of favorite 80s videos before doing 60s, 70s and 90s lists. These are fun.
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Who Let the Dogs Out?
Think Positive
Another Clue Bat Experience
The AGW weenies never learn. Nature likes to rain on parades. Reality doesn’t care about ideology.
PermalinkA North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
“Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey,” said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
The List Keeps Getting BiggerI posted this on my old blog. But the list has gotten bigger so it needs revisiting.
These are all the things that are claimed to be caused by global warming. I think the shark has been jumped about 70 times by now.
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Post Punk
Here’s a great website with lots of great music videos from non-mainstream artists. Many of them are really good. Like, Yello. I’ve never seen this video but I’ve loved the song for a while now.
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Free South Park
I knew this would happen sooner or later. Free TV on the web is going to be the norm because it allows people to find shows they would miss otherwise. All South Park episodes will be freely distributed (right now pirate sites already do this) on websites.
Offering versions of TV shows online has not hurt television ratings, and may have actually helped. “One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick,” MTV Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said at the Reuters Media Summit in New York on Wednesday.
In August, Comedy Central signed an extension of a deal with “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and agreed to create a new joint venture to spread “South Park” materials across the Web, on mobile phones and video games.
So far, the venture, SouthParkStudios.com, features a small collection of video clips from the show.
Bernstein Research said on Wednesday cable network ratings at several of Viacom’s channels spiked in November, led by MTV, reversing a steep decline earlier in the year.
The internet and TV will be merging in the near future. This is just the beginning step. It was inevitable that the suits would learn that free is a better way to sell shows because you will make big bucks in advertising. People want to see shows at their leisure, not on a schedule. The internet gives people the chance to catch shows they missed.
Frankly, free downloads will be a huge boon for television, music and film once they figure out a way to do it right. If, for example, they made you watch a commercial while downloading a song, they could give people free music and make money at the same time.
It’s going to happen sooner or later.
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Pop Princess Covers Lum Song
Nana Kitade’s version of the Urusei Yatsura theme song. Pretty darn good.
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Future Past
What they were predicting the future to be like in 1900.
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