The Daily Loper – December 12, 2007
Posted by Lopy in The Daily Loper on Dec 12, 2007
A Good Church Man Is Always Up in Everyone’s Shit Edition
Todays links of interest:
- Most DVR users skipping ads, study says
No really. They commissioned a study. Could have just asked us, but, well, it’s good to keep the researchers working. - Amazon.com: Actron CP9145 AutoScanner Diagnostic Code Scanner with Live, Record and Playback Data Capability for OBDII (Post-1996) Vehicles: Automotive
Sometimes, Amazon’s daily Gold Box Deal has an amazingly specific target audience. Sure, it’s 68% off, but what the hell is it?? - Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world
Microsoft’s DRM strategy is beginning to look like a second rate shell game. - Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah Shows
We couldn’t make the Zeppelin reunion; we couldn’t make these. Something ain’t right. But not with Yo La Tengo, who have been continually awesome for nearly the entire time Zeppelin has been broken up. - Merriam-Webster’s 2007 word of the year: w00t
File this under: trying too hard. And "pwned" would have been a much better choice. - Whither Letterman, whither late night?
One of Dave’s writers says that it might be a good thing for him to come back and rail nightly. Perhaps, but we’re not sure that he wants to work that hard anymore . . . - Penthouse Buys Group of Social-Networking Sites
Noted without comment. - Queues gather to gaze at grubby Magna Carta
Noted mostly for headline alone. - As budgets shrink, talent feels pinch
As belts tighten, music budgets diminsh. !@#$ no more overwrought superstar singer ballads. - Bigmouth was better
Billy Bragg on the Morrissey scandal. ‘Nuff said.
