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The Guitar Hero Effect
Cool, brief article on Wired about Motley Crue’s latest track selling almost 5 times as many copies through Rock Band as it did through iTunes. I find it easy to believe. The Guitar Hero effect is...
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I Regret To Inform You That Star Wars Sucks
I don’t claim to know much. I really don’t know for sure whether or not there’s a god. I don’t claim to know what we should do in Iraq, or whether or not we should attack Iran. I strongly suspect that...
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TV
I generally am not much of a television watcher. With a few rare exceptions, I almost never sit down specifically to watch a show. Sometimes I’ll flip on Discovery HD if I need to kill a few minutes,...
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Shouldn't It Be Breaking Badly?
I just wanted to say thanks to cchjd for recommending Breaking Bad. Good show. I’m only two episodes in (yeah, I know, I should run more) but I’m enjoying it greatly so far. It’s also rather long (it...
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Batman Begins (To Go Downhill)
So I watched The Dark Knight a couple of weeks ago. Going in I didn’t know what to expect. I really liked Batman Begins, and it had a lot of the same people behind it. But the hype was ridiculous, with...
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Crapify
Sometimes you see something and you think to yourself “nothing good can come of this”. Enter massify.com. It’s the film industry equivalent of a thirsty baby playing with an open bottle of Drano....
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Boxee: The Networks' Biggest Threat
Fascinating story about Hulu and Boxee here. As usual, I’ll voice my dissenting opinion and say that Hulu is doing the right thing. Boxee, for those who don’t know, is a service that aggregates certain...
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Why Pirating TV Will Not Be Widespread Any Time Soon
I saw this article on NewTeeVee today contending that Hulu’s recent developments, like the Boxee removal I covered in my last post, might be driving customers back to piracy. It shows a fundamental...
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I Have a New Hero
A couple weeks ago, I was listening to my favorite daily NPR show, Marketplace, and I noticed something hilarious. They were doing a segment about people selling their hair to be made into fertilizer,...
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Academy Awards
I’ve been trying to watch all of the movies up for big awards this year, but thanks to there being 10 of them, and some rather serious time constraints, I don’t know if I’m going to make it. So far...
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