Mon, October 30
Time Without Zones—3:24 PM
Daylight Saving Time is a crock, especially the newfangled 2007 version. But Slate wonders if perhaps we'd be better off with no DST and no time zones at all.
Would the U.S. be better off with only one time zone?
Fittingly, their main line of inquiry has to do with syncing up TV schedules. Accordingly, I'm all for it!
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Fri, October 27
I Made It Up
I love reading stuff I don't remember writing. Today I discovered something I don't even remember thinking. (Read more.)
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Thu, October 26
Kiss the Cook
The Survivor column is super late this week. My LA trip wreaked total havoc with my writing schedule. Who knew? (Read more.)
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asdf lkji—8:47 AM
Cute little blurb about a TV news report inadvertently broadcasting an interview subject's predilection for downloading porn:
Law of averages, really. 80% of Internet traffic (or some other large, made up number) is pornography. If you're going to point a camera at someone's download history, you're likely to find some porn.
But what really bugs me about this is the title of the entry: "The Internet Is for Pron." I'm now officially fed up with this "cute" fad of intentionally misspelling things in a wink to the IM/text-message culture, where such typos are common and unintentional. (e.g., "teh funny," "pron," etc.) I never liked it in hip hop culture, either ("Tha Dogg Pound," etc.), but at least then you knew it was intentional. (The best defense is a good offense.)
In cases like "pron," however, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell whether someone made an honest typo, or is trying to be "hilarious." I guess you could say it doesn't matter; both people are stupid. But still, I'd rather know. I'm actually more likely to forgive "ignorant stupid" than "unfunny stupid."
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Tue, October 17
Laugh Tracks Suck
In the sense that I feel they represent a style of television that isn't working very well. Witness: 30 Rock vs. Twenty Good Years. (Read more.)
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Mon, October 16
Too Many Cooks
After watching the 90-minute Flavor of Love finale last night, I take back every negative thing I've said about Survivor. Or about having a car battery attached to your genitals. (Read more.)
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Come in, Orson—5:01 PM
They've taken the original audio recording of that infamous Orson Welles commercial recording session and they've acted out a skit for it. (Where by "They" I mean the Internet, of course. God bless 'em.) Pretty entertaining – I'd never heard the real thing.
You can also enjoy the Animaniacs Pinky & the Brain version (more verbatim than I'd have expected), and – of course – the parody version from The Critic. (Both are voiced by the brilliant Maurice LaMarche, who also played Kip on Futurama.)
Maybe you're wondering, "What about clumsily slapping the Welles audio together to match the Animaniacs animation?" Well, They've thought of that, too. Will the new Google-owned YouTube make it a priority to crack down on copyright violations like these? Lord, we can only hope not.
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Fri, October 13
Dino Dino Jungle
Surfing the web can sometimes come with a sense of adventure. (Read more.)
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Tue, October 10
The Whole Nine Yards
Friday Night Lights is well reviewed and hotly anticipated – but is America ready for some football? (Read more.)
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Toadying Martial Art Expert Volunteer Deputies on the Phone—4:45 PM
Burning my cell phone minutes to sell me on movies/DVDs I'm already planning to pay for: it's the new black.
One of you little tricksters – and I think I know who you are, but this time your name wasn't part of the message! – has instructed Mr. Dwight Shrute to call me and verbally harass me.
And I'm lovin' every minute of it!
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Mon, October 9
Now We're Cooking!
It's hard to decide which is worse: watching the new season of Survivor: Cook Islands, or having to live with myself after making that terrible pun. (Read more.)
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Suddenly Programming!
The comment spammers are on the rampage, and they've brought me out of my web programming semi-retirement. It's a frustrating challenge, but it hasn't been all bad – getting the gears turning again has been kind of fun. (Read more.)
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Sat, October 7
The Tent Embiggens—11:23 AM
Certainly we should all be very excited about the newly released trailer for the next project of the Christopher Guest ensemble: For Your Consideration.
However, on the third viewing I detected a little something we might not have known to look forward to – Shahi!
Hooray! It's always great when new people join in, and if they're already favorites, so much the better!
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Wed, October 4
Mid-Term Report
A chance to check in on the progress of some of the season's new shows once they've got another episode or two under their belts. (Read more.)
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Pwned—3:06 PM
What does it say about a culture when typos become neologisms?
I ran across "pwned" online a few times in the last few days and from the context I assumed it was an intentional misspelling of "owned," for use expressing domination. (As in, "I totally pwned you.") Which turns out to be more or less the case. It's just like "teh" – someone typed it wrong and suddenly everyone's doing it on purpose to be "funny."
I think we can all agree "All your [whatever] are belong to us" is hilarious, but there should be restrictions in place to keep this from getting out of hand.
I'll admit, however, that this is awesome.
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Git-R-Spun—12:11 PM
Following a thread of David Cross's ongoing feud with Jim Belushi (just a bunch of unfunny, sarcastic rants about Belush – I'm no Jim fan, but could you pick an easier target?) I landed on this letter Cross wrote in response to criticism of him in a book by Larry the Cable Guy.
It reminded me of this clip of Larry (Dan Whitney) before he invented the Larry character. It's an interesting contrast.
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Mon, October 2
Pug Fugly
I'm not rushing to appreciate Ugly Betty, but God bless the show for giving me any excuse to use that as a title for a column. (Read more.)
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