I hate the tv

Youtube, today I realized, contains a plethora of funny live news outtakes. Whether its the fox news perverts slipping up or rowdy bystanders (ahahaha) harassing the reporters…there’s a lot of giggles to be had.

And of course, let’s not forget about these pre-YouTube classics: QVC and grapes

So Google talk rolled out an interesting feature a while back, to show your friends which song your playing…You can see it here…

Well they use it to track what people are playing and rank music using it.

It seems pretty cool, so I’m not totally against it, but I bet a lot of people don’t know this is going on. And it’s important to remember that this user information is turned directly into money by companies like google.

I didn’t see them mention this to me when doing the software update. Software license agreements are all hocus pocus….click here and we’ll make the hundreds of pages of nasty legalese go away so you can just use the damn program. At least google’s got some blurb up about how you opt-in and opt-out. They’re pretty cool about that.

Ahahhaa

I don’t know WHAT this is; but it’s pretty fun. The end is amazing.

update 3/8/2008: the video was removed from gootube. Here’s some information on this brilliant animation.

Bullshit. Bullshit! bullshit. This study from the Reason Foundation makes an interesting read for anyone who’s dieing to avoid the obvious facts. There are no numbers produced and no scientific rigor exercised.

So many holes that I won’t even address them, except with this (from this website):

According to the 1999 Reason Foundation Annual Report, top funders include: C. Boyden Gray and David Koch (each individually contributed $25,000 or more in 1999), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the JM Foundation, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Lilly Endowmet, Scaife Family Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Sunmark Foundation. Corporate Donors in 1999 included: American Farm Bureau Federation, American Forest and Paper Association, American Petroleum Institute, American Plastics Council, ARCO Foundation, BP Amoco, CA Building Industry Association, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Chevron Corporation, Chlorine Chemistry Council, Clorox, Coca-Cola, American and Continental Airlines, Daimler Chrysler Corp, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Edison Electric Institute, ENRON, Exxon Mobil, FMC Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Kimberly-Clark, Koch Industries, Koch Materials, Eli Lilly, Microsoft, National Air Transportation Association, National Beer Wholesalers, National Soft Drink Association, Pfizer, Inc, Philip Morris, Procter and Gamble, Shell Oil, Sun America, Union Carbide Corporation, United Airlines, Western States Petroleum, Watson Land Company, Whole Foods Market, Winston and Strawn.

They obviously have an agenda.

I ran into it via this, then this.

Photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette de Jong have a very powerful set of photos with commentary called “Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl”.

A Snippet:

“The milk from the villages gets tested for radiation levels. If the radiation levels are too high the milk is mixed with uncontaminated milk until the radioactivity is below a set limit”

Found via boingboing.

I caught this article on the inq and felt obliged to chime in as someone who is often grumpy:

Happy HDW,

I’m sure you, I, and a bunch of other Inq readers are in good company this week. Besides AMD finally getting some recognition for their nice chips, what else is going right?

We’ve still got bush, still got a war, tech job industry in the US is still pretty lame, morgage rates are on the rise, oil at all time high, (bullshit) talk of preeminent nuke strike on iran, hamas came to power, It’s hot and perhaps hurricane season this year will be another doozie…not to mention all those Louisiana license plates I keep seeing (in texas and when I was in CO last week).

Eh fuck it,
=)
Glen.
ihatethetv.com

(feel free to print any of this and my name, then again it’s probably a pile of shit not worthy of reading)

Speaking of Chinese super-companies taking over our country and Walmart helping…..This viral advertising campaign is a little bit of light-hearted fun. Pretty creative, nice looking.

The Whois gives this info…someone in Hong Kong, I assume:

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