One of the things that I love about the fact that I have not listened to the radio in a few years is that I am still floored by stuff like this. The wife says this is all over the airwaves at this point and might be to the point of being played too much. Say what you will but this is live music and strategic instrumentation playing at its best. Still the best album of the year as of today for me.
wisdom and buffoonery wrapped in a crispy tortilla shell.
Posted 1 month ago
For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands.
Posted 1 month ago
Ferdinand A. Porsche, who designed the original Porsche 911, the snazzy, powerful sports car that became the lasting signature of the German automobile company founded by his grandfather and later run by his father, died on Thursday in Salzburg, Austria. He was 76.
Posted 1 month ago
When I sit down to work on a personal project at home, it’s much simpler.
I don’t have to follow the familiar standards of whatever kind of app I’m building. I don’t have to use an existing application as a model. I can disregard history. I can develop solutions without people saying “That’s not how it’s supposed to work!”
That freedom is huge. There are so many issues in the world that people complain about, and there’s little chance of fixing the system in a significant way. Even something as simple as reworking the local news is out of reach. But if you’re writing an iOS game, an HTML 5 web app, a utility that automates work so you can focus on the creative fun stuff, then you don’t have to fall back on the existing, comfortable solutions that developers before you chose simply because they too were trapped by the patterns of the solutions that came before them
http://prog21.dadgum.com/132.html#
Spot On.
Posted 1 month ago
That apology addresses the “Today” show’s failure to abridge accurately the conversation between Zimmerman and the dispatcher in this high-profile case. This is how the program portrayed a segment of that conversation:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.
And here is how it actually went down:Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/nbc-issues-apology-on-zimmerman-tape-screw-up/2012/04/03/gIQA8m5jtS_blog.html
My wife leaves on the Today show sometimes when we are getting ready in the mornings. That show has gone from having some resemblance of a news program to being just a slight step above Entertainment Tonight within the last 2-3 years. At its worst it is equal parts TMZ level “exclusives” with people who frankly no one really gives a shit about and the other 50% is YouTube videos from last week. No clue on the edit above, but sounds like a ratings gimmick to me.
I hope Al Roker and Natalie Morales can find employment elsewhere, they seem like the only humans on that show that don’t have egos inflated to the Bronx.
Posted 2 months ago
So far this year, the average audience for 11 of the 15 most-watched cable channels at any time of day has fallen from a year earlier. The biggest losers include Viacom Inc.’s Nickelodeon, Time Warner Inc.’s TNT and News Corp.’s FX, which have each seen double-digit declines in percentage terms, according to Nielsen data through March 18.
Comcast recently announced that Xbox users who subscribe to the company’s Xfinity TV service will now be able to access Xfinity On Demand content on their Xbox 360s — and that doing so won’t count against your 250GB data cap. The cable provider’s new policy has touched off a firestorm of criticism from net neutrality advocates, who point to the decision as proof of just how toothless the FCC’s Open Internet rules are.
The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin
Prognostication of 5 years down the road:
For an extra $2.95 a month, as long as you are a Comcast subscriber - Microsoft will give you access to YouTube, YouPorn and Kotaku on your Xbox for one low fee.
< 25 year old crowd: ”This is awesome! We can now read Kotaku on our 60” TV.”
> 25 year old crowd: ”Didn’t we use to get all the internet for one price?”
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