Remember when I pointed out the other day how none of the most popular websites were created by any of the Big Media Conglomerates? So, if you’re Viacom, NBC/Universal, Disney/ABC or one of the other BMC’s and you’ve been hearing about this “Internet” thing and how popular it’s becoming and you want to get in [...]

George Orwell was only half-right.  This shit has gotten scary.  Now, if you frown at the goddamn airport, you may be targeted as a terrorist.  No, it’s not that you’re tired after driving in bumper-to-bumper traffic, it’s that you hate America and are going to try to blow something up. Oh, and as for this [...]

Time-Warner Cable is offering its subscribers this Tivo-like device for free.  Yup, it’s JUST LIKE Tivo, except you can’t fast-forward through commercials (at least half the reason people WANT Tivo in the first place), you have to watch the show(s) you record before midnight of the same day (what happens if you don’t?  Do they [...]

As everyone who’s read this blog for any length of time knows, I’m forever pointing out various iterations of the Laziest P.R. Stunt Of All Time, namely gluing a bunch of Swarovsky (it’s always Swarovsky) crystals to some mediocre gadget and putting an astronomical price on it.  I swear you see some variation on this [...]

Just yesterday, I trashed the Big Media Conglomerates for being such a bunch of tight-assed rip-off artists.  I was right, they are.  Every once in a while, though, one of them actually does something that isn’t a huge, stinking piece of impacted manure. This, my friends, is one of those.  Behold the weirdness which is [...]