Archive for October 31, 2006

Nostalgia Clip of the Day

In the spirit of enjoying sweet, sweet copyrighted material on YouTube while you still can, I encourage you to check out classic SCTV clip: Martin Short leading punk outfit The Queen Haters on Mel’s Rockpile.

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Ugly GooTube backstory?

You didn’t read it here first — this story’s tearing up the web — but Mark Cuban has an anonymous post on his blog claiming that YouTube is colluding with the major media players to a) squeeze out its competitors and b) cheat artists out of profits.
Here’s the executive summary as I understand it:
Reportedly, nearly [...]

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Cool but largely useless Mac app of the day award

Today’s prize goes to a program called Disco. It’s a Mac OS X disc burning utility.
The useless part is that at least for me, the built-in disc burning functionality of Mac OS X is perfectly serviceable. The cool part is that the app actually spits out cool interactive smoke while your disc is being burned. [...]

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Spam of the day

I got a piece of mail from someone called “Herbert Mitchell”. The subject line?
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That’s it.
Dudes, I think Jean Chretien has reinvented himself as a spammer! Cool, huh? (Speak those words to yourself in a Quebecois accent. It’s so totally him.)

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