The Daily Loper – March 28, 2007

The Place Where No Cars Go Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Real Kwik-E-Marts? Woo-Hoo!
  In an extremely leveraged buy-out, Apu will soon be taking over some real-world 7-11 stores.
• With aging Falk, "Columbo" looks like closed case
  And yet, they’re still moving ahead with the fourth "Indiana Jones" movie. How is that right?
• Onion launching video newscast
  Here’s a suggested tagline: "We lie, you decide."
• Real Kwik-E-Marts? Woo-Hoo!
  In a really wince-inducing case of life imitating art imitating life, 7-Eleven may convert some stores to coincide with "Simpsons Movie." Because someone, somewhere will go "aha, that’s who they were making fun of!" and start going to these stores? Please explain how this makes any sense whatsoever.
• If It’s Orbison, It Must Be Pledge Month
  In which one viewer notices that PBS only airs certain programming during pledge drive time…as if to tell viewers they’ll get similar programming all the time. Alas, poor viewers, you won’t. Sorry.
• FBI chief blames computers for privacy flap
  Well, yeah, computers are very very nosy. It’s all I can do to keep my computers from following me around the house every single day asking me what I just did, what I’m doing now and what I’m doing next.
• Was Griffin’s Crash a Hoax?
  It’s actually kind of amazing how much play that a crash had by an actor noone really cares about in a car that noone could afford has received.
• AT&T says received 1 mln inquiries on iPhone
  We actually know people who switched to Cingular and got a cheap phone in order to be an easy position to get an iPhone when it comes out. Oh wait, that was us.
• Yahoo! to Offer Unlimited Email Storage
  But what happens if you get an infinite amount of emails?