| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Jon Consults His Therapist 2/4/10 | ||||
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K.O. wants you to see what got left out by Bill-O.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
After Factor, Therapy
K.O. wants you to see what got left out by Bill-O.
Web 2.0 Blues
What's an old-school folkie to do in a world of social networking?
Respond online.
Scott Blaszak performs his original song, "Talkin' Web 2.0 Blues."
Did we mention Blaszak's also a filmmaker?
"The Wiki Breakup" is among Scott Blaszak's contributions to SlateV.
Respond online.
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| Audio: PRI & WNYC's program Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. "Busker" is from munkt0n's Flickr photostream. | |
Did we mention Blaszak's also a filmmaker?
"The Wiki Breakup" is among Scott Blaszak's contributions to SlateV.
The Ex
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Eliot Spitzer 2/2/10 | ||||
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Snooze Deterents
So you thought it'd be nice to hit the snooze alarm...
Real Seiko alarm clock ads by BBDO Bangkok, Thailand.
Real Seiko alarm clock ads by BBDO Bangkok, Thailand.
Designer Genes
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| Audio: CBS Radio's Osgood File, 2/2/10. | |
Left Out In The Coal
Their name suggested coal was clean,
The Greens, although, were far from kean.
The Doctor's heirs exclaimed "How crude!"
Thus "Lorax" Coal got their ass sued.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Fox 'n' Hounds (2)
Jon Stewart made one visit to the Factor, edited & aired over 2 days.
It hardly seemed long enough to carry over to a second day... Except for the promotional value. Bill wasted a lot of time with his trial balloon ticket, too. Jon held his ground and then Laura Ingraham came on to claim he'd thrown Obama under the bus... Maybe even the Straight Talk Express.
I'd missed this yesterday, but apparently the big O is taking on all comers this week... Not necessarily getting their point and responding, just taking them on.
The Daily Kos Poll in question.
It hardly seemed long enough to carry over to a second day... Except for the promotional value. Bill wasted a lot of time with his trial balloon ticket, too. Jon held his ground and then Laura Ingraham came on to claim he'd thrown Obama under the bus... Maybe even the Straight Talk Express.
I'd missed this yesterday, but apparently the big O is taking on all comers this week... Not necessarily getting their point and responding, just taking them on.
The Daily Kos Poll in question.
Halftime & Halfwits
 Mike and Jeff publish podcasts on Facebook. They're agitated over issues of truth, justice and the American way. |
Pulp Non-Fiction
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| Audio: WNYC's On The Media Host: Bob Garfield. | |
Brace Yourself
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| Audio: CBS Radio's Osgood File, 1/26/10. | |
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Internet (Addiction) Age
South Koreans were among the first to truly embrace the internet. Perhaps that’s why the country has also become one of the first to treat internet addiction as a psychiatric disorder. Author Douglas Rushkoff traveled to South Korea for PBS' Frontline: Digital Nation to present a glimpse into South Korea's battle against digital obsession.
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| Audio: WNYC's On The Media Host: Bob Garfield. | |
Ads 'n' Adds
Mike and Jeff publish podcasts on Facebook. They're still waiting for Rolf Benirschke to cave in and friend them. |
Assume The Position
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| Audio: CBS Radio's Osgood File, 1/21/10. | |
Sitting Ducks, a 1982 painting by Michael Bedard.
Save The Tiger
Craig Tracy photographed this image of “The Last South China Tiger” as part of Save China’s Tigers‘ efforts to protect the remaining striped felines there.
A quick look at the tiger's nose suggests Tracy is a body painter...
But how many models did he use?
Via Like Cool
But how many models did he use?
Via Like Cool
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
There Ain't No Sanity Clause
The progressive blog Daily Kos hired Research 2000 to conduct a Poll of Self-Identified Republicans, conucted between January 20 and 31.
63% of them believe President Obama is a socialist
53% believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president
36% believe he wasn't born in the United States
31% believe the president hates white people
24% believe the president wants the terrorists to win
23% believe their state should secede from the union
Jane's Law: The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane. -- Jane Galt, from Asymetrical Information.
Hunting Dog
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- attributed to Groucho Marx
Talk about stupid pet tricks...
Duck-Hunting Dog Tells All
A man invites a friend to watch his prize duck hunting dog at work.
They approach the first pond, the dog runs ahead into the brush. He comes back and waves his tail once. The owner tells his friend that this means there is one duck on the pond. They walk up, and sure enough, one duck flies off.
At the second pond, the dog waves his tail three times. The owner explains that this means there are three ducks on the pond. When they walk up, exactly three ducks take flight.
At the third pond, the dog runs back and forth, humping the hunters' legs and chasing his tail. The friend asks what in the world this means. The owner explains, "This means there are so many f**king ducks on that pond, he can't even count them."
Talk about stupid pet tricks...
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| Audio: NPR's Morning Edition, 2/2/10 Host: Steve Inskeep. | |
Duck-Hunting Dog Tells All
A man invites a friend to watch his prize duck hunting dog at work.
They approach the first pond, the dog runs ahead into the brush. He comes back and waves his tail once. The owner tells his friend that this means there is one duck on the pond. They walk up, and sure enough, one duck flies off.
At the second pond, the dog waves his tail three times. The owner explains that this means there are three ducks on the pond. When they walk up, exactly three ducks take flight.
At the third pond, the dog runs back and forth, humping the hunters' legs and chasing his tail. The friend asks what in the world this means. The owner explains, "This means there are so many f**king ducks on that pond, he can't even count them."
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| Ellen DeGeneres - Hunting | ||||
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The Big O
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Q & O 2/1/10 | ||||
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President Obama's Q+A session with Senate Democrats 2/3 turned into a softball game staged largely to make those facing tough electoral prospects look good to their home state audiences.
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| The Word - Siren Song 2/1/10 | ||||
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Dot Communism
It isn't always clear whether the attacks are government sponsored or merely tolerated, but Todd Bucholz says China faces a stark choice when it comes to Internet freedom and it's time for China to pull hackers' plugs.
 Economist Todd Buchholz was an adviser to the first President Bush. His latest book is called "New Ideas From Dead CEOs." |
CD of the Month
"Dancing Into Silence" by Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai along with William Eaton and Will Clipman is the Echoes CD of the Month for February 2010.
John Dilberto of WXPN, Philadelphia offers a review.
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| Audio: PRI's Echoes, an ambient music program on public radio. | |
Washday Wardrobe
How many times do you change your lingerie while cleaning?
"Chore" is an ad for Damaris lingerie... Supposedly "brilliant housework attire."
Lauren McAvoy appeared as a contestant on Britain's Next Top Model, where she got to show her face... And won the third season.
Lauren McAvoy appeared as a contestant on Britain's Next Top Model, where she got to show her face... And won the third season.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
How High Priced The Moon
But it was partly his Baptist upbringing. In his then current condition of drunken amateur theologian he equated NASA's manned space program moon landings with "Jacob's Ladder" story from Genesis... The original Stairway to Heaven.
Little did he know that spaceflight would be mothballed later the same morning... A casualty of the proposed 2011 federal budget.
"The truth is we were not on a sustainable path to get back to the moon," NASA administrator Charles Bolden said in a telephone conference call with the Washington Post. "We were neglecting investments in key technologies."
Les Paul, whose custom guitar is Gibson's all-time best seller, is also considered the inventor of multi-track recording, which allowed his partner Mary Ford to stack vocals like Imelda May did for the tribute at the 2010 Grammys with Jeff Beck.
It's Groundhog Day!
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| Lisa Landry - Groundhog Day | ||||
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Robot Replacement?
PETA wants spring-predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil replaced with by a robotic version.Bill Murray kinda likes the original, unaltered.
I can see it now: Well, did he see his shadow? I don't know, but he did kill 14,000 bystanders.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it's unfair to keep the animal in captivity and subject him to the huge crowds and bright lights that accompany tens of thousands of revelers each Feb. 2 in Punxsutawney, a tiny borough about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. PETA is suggesting the use of an animatronic model.
But William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, says the animal is "being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania."
Uh, how exactly is the average child treated in Pennsylvania?
This year's verdict: another six weeks of winter.
To New Beginnings
The Band, live in Japan, September 1983.
Easy As Pie Graph
The creator's alias is similar to "Lazlo Toth," the pen name under which SNL's Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) wrote letters to famous figures (taken from that of Laszlo Toth, a deranged man who vandalized Michelangelo's Pietà in Rome). The letters, designed to tweak the noses of politicians and corporations, were full of deliberate misstatements of fact and inside jokes. Many of these letters received serious responses; Novello sometimes continued the charade correspondence at length, with humorous results. The letters and responses were published in three books: The Lazlo Letters , Citizen Lazlo! and From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters.
Red White & Brown
| Jokes.com | ||||
| Russell Peters - Stereotypes | ||||
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| Audio: NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, 1/30/10 Host: Audie Cornish. | |
Monday, February 1, 2010
Calculated Risk
With all the recent criticism of Timothy Geithner, and the acrimony over re-upping Ben Bernanke (70-30, an electoral landslide, was the narrowest ever margin for confirming a Fed chairman), it was former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who initiated the government's response to the economic meltdown. He's been on defense ever since.
Reporter: Anthony Mason.
Reporter: Anthony Mason.
As Loud As Allowed
The guys in the lab coats can confirm what any couch potato with ringing ears already knows: commercials are damn loud.
Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) first introduced a proposal to limit the loudness of TV ads in the summer of 2008... A little late to make it through that session. And the bill was swiftly overwhelmed by the din of campaign attack ads, screaming car dealers, lower priced car insurance and household gadgets demonstrated TO an audience of carefully selected shills or BY Billy Mays.
So Eshoo tried again in 2009 with the the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act.
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| Audio: NPR's All Things Considered, 01/02/10. | |
TV stations or networks do the same thing. If you channel surf during widespread coverage of the same event (like the State of the Union message) you'd hear different audio processing on each channel, most of it trying to sound louder.
Radio does the same thing, almost like it's screaming for attention.
And so does the music industry.
Every technical advance to make media sound better is ultimately sabotaged by media ownership's drive to make their product louder.
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| Audio: NPR's All Things Considered, 12/31/09. | |
Sunday, January 31, 2010
You Are Watching Pad TV
If Apple had Googled they would've found this before using the name:
From Mad TV, Fox's challenger to SNL. Bruce McCoy and Tami Sagher wrote the sketch about the then-fictional device in 2005.
From Mad TV, Fox's challenger to SNL. Bruce McCoy and Tami Sagher wrote the sketch about the then-fictional device in 2005.
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| Audio: NPR's All Things Considered, 1/28/10, Host: Madeleine Brand. | |
Truthful Toons
Ted Rall, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is an award-winning political cartoonist and op-ed columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. He is the author of 14 books, including graphic novels, political polemics and travelogues covering Central and South Asia.
Museum Piece
It drew a great deal of critical attention when painted in 1882, and still provokes emotional responses today.
The work, which hangs in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is also the subject of author Erica Hirshler's “Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting.”
The work, which hangs in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is also the subject of author Erica Hirshler's “Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting.”
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| Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Meghna Chakrabarti. | |
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