The Daily Loper – December 1, 2006

Scared Straight With Prison Mike Edition

Today’s links of interest:

• Olbermann’s Hot News
  Apparently, thinking while delivering the news is hot again.
• The Google/YouTube Come-On
  Apparently what some people call "license fees" other people call "bribes". Really, it’s just semantics.
• Guilds, ACLU challenging FCC regulations
  Man, everyone’s gaining up on the FCC lately.
• Chronicle of the newspaper death foretold
  Sometimes we forget, but newspapers have been dying for quite a long time now. Remember when every major city (and even cities like Fresno) had more than one daily paper?
• Decemberists Announce ‘Guitar Solo Challenge’ with Colbert
  Girlfight!
• eBay: VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1966 Acetate LP ANDY WARHOL (item 300054910309 end time Dec-08-06 20:27:23 PST)
  Got (at least) $20K? Then you can buy the acetate of the first version of the first album by a little band called The Velvet Underground. Please rip us a copy.
• Right-Wing Radio Host Fabricates Controversy To Attack First Muslim Congressman
  Because it’s always more important to have an opinion than it is to know the facts.
• MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill
  A bill that would protect personal privacy is killed because MPAA lobbyists felt it would hamper piracy investigations. Let’s just hope the person who steals your identity isn’t also bootlegging movies.
• E-Some Businesses May Be Slow to Take Vista Leap
  Word. Where one of the ‘Lopers works, they just made the transition to XP last year.
• Truly lame idea for gun exchange
  Turns out that, in Oakland, a guns for Guns N’ Roses tickets exchange was a misfire.
• Lohan sends her condolences to Altman’s family
  Missed this last week. "BE ADEQUITE"
• Britney’s crotch shots take Web by storm
  This is from China Daily. We should be proud that our Western Culture and Values have penetrated so deeply into Communist China. And that Britney is one of the people for whom we need to Defend Marriage. U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A!
• Understanding Battlestar Galactica
  Interesting article, ‘cept for the gratuitous and inaccurate slam on Star Trek.
• ‘Happy Feet’: Penguin Propaganda From Hollywood
  Luckily, the National Association of Manufacturers is on the case! Now, nobody will be confused about how beneficial those plastic six-pack rings really are!
• Intuit Seeks Bigger Piece Of Online Banking Through Digital Insight Purchase
  This may end up being a big move for Intuit.
• Gibson empathizes with Richards, offers support
  Gee, thanks?
• Apple seeks second patent for iPod-mobile-phone combo
  We note that the scene in last night’s "Scrubs" involving Turk downloading music into his mobile phone points out the inherent danger in these types of combinations.
• $14,995.35 for attaching to cable TV?
  That’s how much Comcast wants to charge a guy in New England to hook him up. For that price, he’d better get ESPN *and* ESPN2 in HD.