The Daily Loper – November 9, 2007

This Earth is ruined! We’ve gotta get a new one! Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Was Radiohead?s download experiment a failure?
  No.
• Why We Fight
  If you aren’t supporting the WGA after watching this video, you obviously have a vested interest in seeing them continue to get screwed.
• Big bright puffball Holmes is a comet like no other
  RED ALERT!
• Priest allegedly stalked TV host O’Brien
  This is the type of "stealth campaign" that blowhard William Donohue and the Catholic League should be worrying about, rather than boycotting movies on the shaky ground that they were based upon books by an atheist.
• DRM-Free Music Boosts Online Album Sales
  DUH! Actual sales figures say that free, unfettered non-DRM music is outselling the crippled, hobbled DRM music at a rate of 4 to 1.
• Latest iPhone update jailbroken before it hits the ground
  Hello, Europe! What would you like on your iPhone today?
• Hackers Infect Alicia Keys’ MySpace Page
  Apparently, they changed her default-playing music to Norwegian Death Metal.
• 2 Studios Escalate Actions Against Striking Writers
  Because TV is a writer-driven medium, they are going after the Showrunners, who live in a gray area of multiple duties — including writing. But if the studios really wanted the Showrunners to go back to work, they’d agree to go back to the bargaining table, for reals. But they won’t.
• South Park Guitar Hero
  Real guitars are for old people.
• Strike: Why the writers are right
  And why the producers are dead wrong wrong wrong.
• 30 Rock: Kenneth Parcells’ last party ever
  Last night’s "30 Rock" was quite possibly the funniest half-hour broadcast on TV this year. Total genius how they were able to get stone-cold Green propaganda in the context of a show that was making dead-on fun at the ludicrousness of a GE Company pretending to be Green in the first place. Tina Fey totally and utterly rocks.
• Sony CEO sees ’stalemate’ in disc fight
  Stringer also tells reporters that he wishes he could travel back in time to a point where there might have been an opportunity to unite the competing DVD formats. Apparently Sony should have hired Hero Nakamura as CEO.
• ”Heroes” creator to fans: I’m super sorry
  The good news: Heroes is back on track. The bad news: The writers strike will probably derail the new found momentum.