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Tentative Review of Hulu

October 30, 2007 – 7:33 am

NBC broke away from iTunes to offer its shows through Amazon (which only works on a Windows PC— no iPods etc) and through their new venture Hulu. It is a flash based video offering meant to compete with YouTube (event though YouTube was never meant to compete with NBC). The folks at MacRumors offered [...]

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Arguements for or Against YouTube (a new hamster dance)

August 1, 2007 – 4:57 pm

I was recently involved in a discussion about how useful YouTube is. I was on the pro YouTube side. I don’t think it is the end-all for the internet, but I do think it is possible for it to provide a useful service. However, I can not agree with the idea that [...]

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Pole Position & Space Invaders— with People!

July 5, 2007 – 4:43 pm

Kind of neat. It is fun to see classic games acted out by people in stop-motion animation, but I might like the sound effects best. It looks like these folks also did a version of Pong, but how many of these does a person need?
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Evil Can Still be Kind of Funny

May 31, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Ignoring the arguments about whether Google is as good as they claim to be, one has to admit that they have a sense of humor. Take for instance their directions via google maps to get from New York, NY to Paris, France. I don’t know why I’d never considered just swimming the 3,462 miles [...]

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