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Tuesday, Aug 17, 2004
price pointed
"SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16 - RealNetworks plans to announce on Tuesday that it is putting its digital music offerings on sale at half price as part of an aggressive strategy to force its way onto Apple Computer's popular iPod digital music player.
At the same time, the company acknowledged that the sale - which lowers the price of songs on the online RealPlayer Music Store to 49 cents and the cost of most albums to $4.99, tentatively through Labor Day - would have an impact on the company's finances."
college exam
"A plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating electoral votes in Colorado will be on the ballot in November, the AP reports. If passed, the amendment "would make Colorado the first state to allocate electoral votes proportionately according to the popular vote, rather than giving a winner all of the state's electoral votes."
Monday, Aug 16, 2004
save me from this ease
"From the Bible on, moralists and nags have promoted the benefits of hard work and early rising. They are mistaken, argues Tom Hodgkinson. For breathing space to create and time to reflect, indolence is essential. "
blue beard
electoral vote predictor
Sunday, Aug 15, 2004
boring header
nice mp3 blog - *sixeyes
free tirade
prescient
Saturday, Aug 14, 2004
opinionadir
Then, one by one, the producers pitch ideas, tossing them out like clay pigeons that O'Reilly shoots out of the air.
"C'mon, people," he says.
A female producer suggests a segment on the Palestinians, who it seems are -
"I'm asleep, Stephanie," O'Reilly interrupts. He looks around the circle. "Give me something I can put on the air, please."
A producer tosses out an idea about a doctor who recommends giving pot to kids with attention-deficit disorder. O'Reilly's eyebrows lift into two sharp points.
"Can we get the doc?" he snaps.
Friday, Aug 13, 2004
defenseless position
"How is it that civilians in a hijacked plane were able to communicate with their loved ones, grasp a totally new kind of enemy and weaponry and act to defend the nation's Capitol, yet the president had "communication problems" on Air Force One and the nation's defense chief didn't know what was going on until the horror was all over?"
Thursday, Aug 12, 2004
ship to shore
just saw chris matthews give anti-kerry swiftboater john o'neill "the business." as usual for his show, nothing was learned, but im glad to see matthews shortsighted bluster reserved for someone i dont like. even the dimwitted matthews understood that enlisting to fight trumps awol from the national guard. good thing matthews feels a double dose of shame as he himself avoided the war. he made this clear at the end of the show when he repeatedly made reference to the fact that kerry had done more for his country than either he or bush had. hopefully that bit of conventional wisdom will remain part of the larger narrative.
Sunday, Aug 08, 2004
triumph of the shrill
"Comedy writer Robert Smigel has built a formidable career out of childhood fixtures such as silly voices, animals, cartoons, and puppets. He received his big break in the mid-'80s, when Lorne Michaels hired him as a writer for Saturday Night Live; Smigel went on to write such classic skits as the one in which William Shatner admonishes a crowd of Star Trek fans to get a life. In 1991, Smigel hooked up with fellow SNL writer Conan O'Brien to write Lookwell, a revered pilot starring Adam West as a clueless, washed-up TV star turned detective. The show wasn't picked up for production, but Smigel later become one of the primary creative voices behind Late Night With Conan O'Brien."