Sunday October 8, 2006

The Weekly ‘Loper - October 8, 2006

While you were eagerly anticipating the season premiere of Veronica Mars, Lost and Battlestar Galactica (well, so were we), this is what we were looking at:

YouTube and Orphaned Art - YouTube shouldn’t stop until they’ve become a repository for everything ever filmed.
How Paramount Steals My Life, A Few Minutes at a Time - Jim sitting through promos for Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley - trust me, it’s not pretty.
There Ought To Be A Law - Kassia dreams of a world where politicians actually know what they’re talking about.
Teaching Consumers About DRM - Where you should go to learn about DRM before your mp3s stop playing.
That’s What We Like: Battlestar Galactica - There are Cylons among us. Funny, Kirk was conspicuously quiet on this topic.

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Live Set Due, "Archives" Delayed
What? Neil Young's Archives delayed again? Color us totally and utterly not surprised.
Mitsubishi's $7000, 65-Inch LaserVue HDTV Reviewed: (Verdict: Lasers Are Awesome)
Jim would like to remind everybody that Xmas is just around the corner.
Jonas Brothers To Play Thanksgiving Halftime Show
Wow. Totally and utterly pwned by the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Palin mistakes fans for protesters at Va. rally
There really is nothing more to say.
How Is There a Book About Sleevefacing?
We ask this question regularly about any number of books.
750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy: Page 1
Ars Technica makes a strong statement against the dodgiest of all dodginess: the "losses" due to digital piracy.
In Defense of Piracy
Lawrence Lessig on the stifling of creativity, via antiquated law.
Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites
No, seriously, this was written yesterday.
Mike Huckabee Floats Theory of "Economic Terrorism," Other Crazy Things on Fox News
Imagine: this man could have been the Republican nominee for President. Scary.
Sumner Redstone forced to sell Viacom, CBS shares
Ouch. Now it's personal.
Hockey mom Sarah Palin booed at hockey game.
Well, to be fair, it was in Philly, where they booed Santa Claus. That said, Santa Claus has wayyyyyy more foreign experience, and he can see Russia from his house as well!
Berkeley Breathed says goodbye to Opus: 'I'm destroying the village to save it'
Ack! Missed this in all of the economic chaos last week. This makes us almost unbearably sad. Opus -- along with Bill The Cat -- was one of the earliest 'Loper icons, and remains major in the pantheon. Of course, Mr. Breathed has retired his characters before, so it's entirely possible that they'll be bac,
CBS goes after Hulu by aligning with YouTube
Sigh. While we applaud CBS for getting as many of their full-length shows out there as possible, not sure why it has to be an either/or thing, or a "going after" of Hulu.
Republicans want pre-election economic stimulus
Isn't this what President Bush calls "playing politics"?
With new "Black Ice," AC/DC turns off iTunes
Quote of the week: "Maybe I'm just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless 'em, it's going to kill music if they're not careful," lead singer Brian Johnson, 61, told Reuters.
Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers
Great. Next they'll be using Twitter.
Wal-Mart joins MSN and Yahoo, leaves DRM servers online
Sigh. This is just like the sub-prime mortgage crisis writ (much, much) smaller. Anybody who offered DRM'd music was not on the side of the angels in any way, shape or form. Either refunds or the opportunity to re-access clean versions of the same songs should be offered by Wal-Mart. However, nobody forced you to purchase music that had these types of restrictions. From fracking Wal-Mart, to boot.
Study: Men Love the Internet. And They Don't Read Books
We quote: "Equally eye-opening, only 74 percent said they would rather have sex than surf the web."
Stone says no malice intended in "W."
Yeah, surrrrrrrrrre.
GNR's 'Chinese Democracy' Gets Release Date
Yeah, surrrrrrrrrrre.

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