The Daily Loper – December 8, 2006
Posted by Lopy in The Daily Loper on Dec 08, 2006
. . . Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! At All Edition
Today’s links of interest:
- How to get a customer rep on the phone for iTunes
Much more difficult than you want it to be . . . - Chancellor offers £5m for pursuit of pirates
The British have been doing this for, what?, hundreds of years. - The answer is more, not less, product placement
Luckily, the question doesn’t have to be asked. It’s already happening. - McCartney, U2, others join call to extend music copyright
As the Beatles edge toward the British public domain, cries of "fairness" ensue! - Radio’s High-Definition Blitz
Radio decides to promote hi-def in a big way. Will it lure customers back from satellite? - Nielsen to Offer Full Minute-By-Minute Ratings Data April 24
Instead of learning that people stop watching "24" around hour 13, we’ll discover that they tuned out hour 12, minute 37. - Cocktail robots mix mojitos in Vienna
Please tip your robot bartender well, otherwise, when they become self-aware, they will rise up against us because they’ve been nursing grudges over our cheapness. Also, your robot bartender really doesn’t want to hear your problems, so shut up, already. - Borat Students Want Their Scene Scuttled
Of course they do. On one hand, there are many drunken things we’ve done and/or said that we are eternally grateful that weren’t recorded. On the other hand, we didn’t a sign a release prior to getting wasted. - Nominations for 49th Annual Grammy Awards
There have been recent years where we look at the Grammy noms and think "could be worse, all things considered." This ain’t one of those years. ‘Cept, of course, for "Crazy," which should win everything it’s up for. - Little Steven starts own record label
Cool. Now get back to filming the final Sopranos episodes!!! - new wilco songs
Courtesy of Jesse Jarnow’s Frank and Earthy blog, a new album’s worth of songs that Wilco has been playing live. Not that we encourage live recordings like these. Oh yeah, we do.
