The Daily Loper – April 19, 2007

Three Jackass Morons Edition

Todays links of interest:

• eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
  In other news, Google, who lost out on the deal, has just launched a similar tool bar-based "queryless" search service.
• Scandal at Screens!
  If we discover that one of the makers of the "Seven-Minute Sopranos" had an HBO connection, does it somehow dilute how awesome it is? No and yes. It does nothing to how it worked as a piece of art in and of itself. However, it does taint the backstory.
• "Deadwood’s" return "most likely" delayed until 2008
  It just seems like an actual conclusion is becoming more and more of a remote possibility.
• Suddenly, the Web Is Giving Eggheads Something to Watch
  Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Jokes. New YouTube-esque ventures cater to the long-attention span crowd.
• YouTube to split revenues with users
  The brain trust behind the "Kitty Cat Dance" video will be set for life…
• AOL courts TV advertisers
  As AOL launches what will be part of their online television programming division, advertisers get new players in the game for their dollars.
• iPhone on target for end of June launch, AT&T says
  Man, I can only hope that it doesn’t have the same network issues that we’ve been experiencing since we switched in anticipation of getting one.
• RIM stays mum on cause of BlackBerry outage
  In other words, you people should be glad that it came back at all!
• MySpace launches online news service
  Of course, nobody will be able to find any actual news stories nestled within all of the ads.
• Naked Trees Dominated Early Forests
  It wasn’t until the Parents Television Council flooded the FCC with thousands of similarly-worded complaints that the trees were forced to cover themselves up.
• Microsoft aims to double user base with Windows and Office
  Wait a second! At this point, to double its user base, wouldn’t Microsoft need to expand to other planets?
• The 100 unsexiest men 2007
  The ‘Loper males are just glad that — by process of elimination — we are in the top 3,249,999,900 of "sexiest men of 2007."
• Sanjaya is voted off "American Idol"
  Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Now, we can go back to trying to ignore the whole thing.