The (Bi-)Weekly ‘Loper – April 8, 2007
Posted by Jim Connelly in The Weekly 'Loper on Apr 08, 2007
While you were trying to figure out how you could get yourself one of those machine gun legs, here’s what we’ve been looking at:
- Creator Of Frivolous Lawsuits Files Lawsuit Against Other Frivolous Lawsuit Filers – There oughta be a lawsuit!
- Examining NBC Universal and News Corp’s So-Called YouTube Killer – Will their content override YouTube’s ubiquity?
- One Positive Step For MySpace – Now if they can do something about that terrible terrible UI.
- Buffy’s Back! – The Season 8 comic books are off to a rip-roaring start.
- That’s What I Like: The Glory of War – Tyson takes a look at a Fresno-based online war historian.
- DuroSport Strikes Again: Second Life Store a Health Hazard – Our understanding is that on the weekend that this store opened, Second Life started having some huge huge issues. Coincidence?
- DuroSport and Star Trek: A Match Made in Hell – Apparently, a lot of Trekkers couldn’t handle our harsh criticism of this new service, and chose to lash out in the comments section, pretending that the whole thing was some kind of lame joke. If so . . .
- DuroSport and Star Trek: The Party’s Over – . . . the joke was clearly on DuroSport, because the service was terminated by Star Trek after only a single day.
- Why “Vote For The Worst” Just Might Work – It’s not that I hate American Idol, per se, it’s just that I am so very very over it.
- Hell Feezes Over: A Major Record Label Does The Right Thing – All about EMI’s decision to let Apple sell DRM-free music, and how the fact that a major label did the right thing almost made Kirk’s head explode.
- Steve Jobs’ DRM Double Standard – Of course, apparently what’s good for the musical goose isn’t so good for the video gander. Or some such twisted, labored metaphor.
- Sometimes My Arms Bend Back: A Personal History of Twin Peaks – While I’ve watched the first season of Twin Peaks at least a half-dozen times (I kept having to show it to people, as if to say, look at this!!), I’ve only ever watched the second season once, during that initial run. I remember really really loving the epic battle of good v. not-so-good that they were setting up, as well as the epic friendship between Dale Cooper & Harry Truman. I remember being disappointed by the ending, though. In any event, I can hardly wait to watch it again, and find out how it holds up after watching all of the shows its influenced.
