My Blog Is Shrinking

Some stuff that was happening on the web while I was either sick, recovering, or trying to catch up on work from being sick:

• Keith Obermann takes Bill O’Reilly to the woodshed.
• What do you do in Western Massachusetts in the winter? Listen to an all-star Tuvan throat-singing band, that’s what.
• Rebecca MacKinnon takes a break from blogging about Google, Microsoft, and China to turn her eye towards sex at Davos…
• Western Union is no longer sending telegrams. One wonders if it’s still possible to actually send telegrams…
• In the wake of the Disney/Pixar deal, some thoughts: Pixar has their own way of doing things and the very first thing the Pixarheads did after the deal was signed was cancel Toy Story 3. I’m not the only one struck by the similarities between the Disney/Pixar deal and the old Apple/NeXT deal….
• Top Gun 2: Brokeback Squadron. I make no comment. update: link updated to a higher-quality version.
• Iranian blogger Hoder is going to Israel.
• Scenes from LOTR that could have been used in tasteless advertisements.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing AT&T. Love the logo.
• Denton’s latest is a Silicon Valley gossip rag called Valleywag.
• Even wonder how Jack Bauer gets around Los Angeles so quickly?
• This is a rather amusing viral marketing campaign. Not sure what the eventual product will be—most likely something cell-phone related—but it’s amusing nonetheless.
• I’ve always wanted my own island.
• I’ve recently discovered the Sleuth Channel, NBC Univeral’s ultra-low-cost replacement for the late, lamented Trio. The programming seems to consist entirely of old NBC and Universal action shows—Miami Vice, Homicide: Life on the Streets, The Equalizer, The A-Team, and Knight Rider make up the bulk of the line-up—with movies from the Universal back catalog scattered hither and yon. It’s great viewing (not to mention the great theme songs, like the one from The Equalizer). Why, just the other day, I learned from Dragnet ‘67 that one pound of LSD has enough doses in it to turn everyone in Los Angeles County into a psychotic!