Multi Media Discussion

This I know full well.

Did you watch the movie before or after reading the synopsis on IMDB:

A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to "reassemble" them into a new "pet"-- a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.

I mean, that would have been a giveaway, wouldn't it?

I knew, I knew. But morbid curiosity got the better of me...

I am now a much less curious person...

Agreed. I don't like gross stuff like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeeps

This hurts to watch.

Watched the Social network today.

I'm going to notify everyone I'm deleting my facebook profile in a month and to contact me privately if they want to keep in touch ...

I'm getting very disillusioned with news programming in this country. For decades, CNN was amazing. Now everybody's trying to be a relatable news magazine, covering Hollywood melt-downs and sensational headlines. I get to watch Nancy Grace shouting at a mother whose daughter committed suicide, or another week devoted to an American teenager who disappears abroad with no additional information. I have to watch BBC's world service to get actual journalism. Hell, Al-Jazeera's English service is better than our networks. I guess that the NYT or WSJ are still doing actual journalism, but I am really disappointed when I can't tell the difference between Entertainment Tonight and the CBS evening news.

Not disagreeing with you, JW, but... you're just realizing this?

The bitter,

ddt

I've known it for a while, but I expected somebody else to step up and carry the hard news. I can't believe that the cable spectrum has room for all of the slanted coverage, sensationalist crap, and cute kitty news, but there's no market for news, national and global, delivered with detail and nuance.

The real and interesting stuff gets buried in a sea of irrelevant 'news' making it impossible for a layman to follow a particular topic for more than 2 days.

What I can recall from 'a brave new world' is that it pretty much described our society.



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I like Al Jazeera English. I'd imagine it would get great ratings if it were allowed to exist on the networks here.

http://www.thepuppychannel.com/

ddt

BBC America is pretty good too. I wish one of the independent stations like KCET would pick it up for their news hour.

Daniel

They can barely afford the licensing fees they pay to PBS... and the money the Rs want to cut from public broadcasting go mostly to stations for programming fees.

ddt

Hey, guess who have killed any possibility of a Kindle web app saving books offline on iOS? What a "coincidence."

"...web apps saved to the home screen are unable to take advantage of HTML5 web caching capabilities"



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Apple are just being asses now. Christ, they've become Microsoft. Embrace, extend, extinguish...

The (dead-tree) comic Axe Cop is just brilliant and hilarious. And written by a six-year-old. Really.

Fun for adults and children with wild imaginations. "But then, suddenly, dinosaur gangsters with ties show up!"

ddt

I'm reading currently Girl Genius in PDF form. I like it, but I've liked everything I've ever read of Foglio's.

Love Axe Cop - found it through Ratfist, by the creator of Earthworm Jim.

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Love Axe Cop - found it through Ratfist, by the creator of Earthworm Jim.

Grooooooooovy!

(Now I'm going to have to go look up some of this stuff.)