The Daily Loper – December 4, 2006

Bunnies! It Must Be Bunnies! Edition

Today’s links of interest:

• Interview: The Hold Steady
  Pitchfork interviews Craig Finn, singer and lyricist of the band that put out (Jim sez) 2006’s best album. "But I hear easily as much Replacements in our music as I do Springsteen." That says it all.
• Sing Along with Buffy
  They compare it to Rocky Horror, but that’s aiming too low. BtVS is going to be the Star Trek of the new milennium.
• TiVoToGo DRM cracked
  Here’s a Medialoper quiz: Name one DRM that hasn’t been cracked.
• Interviewing the man behind The Wire.
  We’ve only just started watching The Wire, so please don’t tell us what he says. Hopefully, when when we get to the end of Season 4, we’ll remember to actually read this.
• Ho, ho, ho? No! Santa beer barred
  Talk about a war on Christmas!! Thank gods that the ACLU is getting involved in order to get us some Santa beer.
• ?Happy Feet? Stuck In The Top Of The Box Office
  Given that this is obviously Left-Wing Propaganda (or in the case of Penguins, Left-Flipper Propaganda), the success of this film is obviously more bad news for the Bush Admin & their Fox News flunkies.
• The Analog Geezer That Keeps Working
  Thanks to audiobooks, there’s not likely to be an obituary for cassette tapes. Plus, cool new concept (which is actually an age-old concept): cross-platform bookmarking. Which only analog media can do.
• Sugar-free TV
  It turns out that television can be both family-friendly and interesting. Who knew?