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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. Apple offered NBC a revenue stream, free promotion, free bandwidth and an attractive and simple delivery package— it is hard to see how spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try and feebly push customers back into an old business model will work out well.

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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 guess part of freedom is the freedom to decide whether or not you like something, or in my case to be unsure if you find something to be stupidly funny or just stupid.

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Pole Position & Space Invaders— with People!

July 5, 2007 – 4:43 pm

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. My brother showed me a couple of other cases of slightly evil and very evil being kind of funny.

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