Posts Tagged “television”

25 Jan: Every Pop Song On the Radio

I dis­cov­ered a bit from Clay Shirky, talk­ing about how tele­vi­sion was the way post-griminess indus­trial soci­ety chose to cope with free time. Included was the bit that enough time is wasted watch­ing tele­vi­sion to pro­duce all of Wikipedia 2000 times over.

Tags: , , , 2009-01-25 21:26 4 Comments

6 Apr: Credit Where Due

Thank you to the Sci-Fi Channel (and/or who­ever ends up own­ing them) for get­ting it and let­ting me down­load BSG off your web­site in a flash thing.
Also, Scott Ian is the moth­er­fuckin’ man, though I think Baltar is very clearly sup­posed to be a Factured Fairlytales ver­sion of Jesus (the beard was the giv­away, I thought). […]

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13 Dec: President Batman

A friend of mine IM’d me an arti­cle osten­si­bly about how Russia is trag­i­cally under the (now-former) KGB’s thumb again. Yes, yes, we all know Putin is a dirty bas­tard who should never be in charge of any­thing more involved than [insert menial civil-service gig here]. And the more media-savvy (ahem) will fig­ure out that […]

Tags: , , 2006-12-13 17:41 7 Comments

10 Oct: Sanity Has Left The Building

It’s actu­ally pretty amaz­ing how crazy TV has got­ten since I stopped watch­ing it. Obviously, I can’t know for cer­tain how crazy it is, since I don’t own one, but I read blog­gers talk about ABC putting on shows about “how soon is the apoc­a­lypse,” and sup­pos­edly some CNN anchor was recy­cling bull­shit from WorldNetDaily […]

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