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  1. My Own Blogroll by WCityMike · · Score: 4, Informative · on Cool RSS Feeds?
    At this point, this has become almost as vague a question as asking the Slashdot population if they know of any cool weblogs or cool websites. That slight snark having been made, here's my own blogroll.

    Bloggers: 43 Folders, Kris Dresden, Diane Duane, Paul Ford, Neil Gaiman, Michael Hanscom, Jason Kottke, Anne Murphy, Jessamyn North, Alia Phibes, Quentin Tarantino, and Wil Wheaton.

    Linklogs: Anil Dash, Best of Craigslist, Boing Boing, CoolGov, Daze Reader, Fazed, Kottke Remainders, LinkMachineGo, MetaJournal, Michael Hanscom's Linklog, Museum of Hoaxes, NewYorkish, Paul Ford's Linklog, Snopes: New, SubText, and UFies.org.

    Chicago: Chicagoist, jamas.org, CHICAGO.Metroblogging, Chicago Snapshot, CTA Tattler, Gapers' Block, and L or El.

    Miscellaneous: Ask Slashdot, Citying, Cult of the One-Eyed Cat, Good Plastic Surgery, I Work With Fools, Schmo Blog, TeeVee, This Is Broken, Today In Alternate History, and x-entertainment.

    Apple Bloggers: Buzz Andersen, Bill Bumgarner, Todd Dominey, Folklore, Steven Frank, John Gruber, Dave Hyatt, Brent Simmons,

  2. Indeed by Yeechang+Lee · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Battle of the Bush Bulge
    If Bush was wired, the receiver would be the size of a deck of cards or smaller, not some giant thing strapped to his back.


    Indeed. Heck, there wouldn't be anything on the back at all; the earpiece would be all that's needed.

    The story's veracity is also hurt by Salon running it, given its reputation for "All Bush bashing, all the time." TeeVee's terrific parody of Salon from earlier this year got that characteristic dead on.
  3. Indeed by Yeechang+Lee · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Battle of the Bush Bulge
    If Bush was wired, the receiver would be the size of a deck of cards or smaller, not some giant thing strapped to his back.


    Indeed. Heck, there wouldn't be anything on the back at all; the earpiece would be all that's needed.

    The story's veracity is also hurt by Salon running it, given its reputation for "All Bush bashing, all the time." TeeVee's terrific parody of Salon from earlier this year got that characteristic dead on.
  4. "Taste a true pilsner" by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Dog Trained on 200-Word Vocabulary

    but I don't really care because the topic is "Pilsner" and not cheese.

    Then you go on to introduce an example of VELCRO hook-and-loop fastener, which has even less to do with golden beer than cheese. Aren't you admitting that the topic is broader than the trademark status of "Pilsner"?

    it is an american simplification to take brand names for generic terms.

    In many cases, I fault the producers for not including a suitably specific generic term on the packaging. Speakers may shorten "CHAMPAGNE wine" to just "champagne" but "CHAMPAGNE sparkling wine" to "sparkling wine".

    Based on the only piece of evidence you included, it is not SABMiller directly who claims Miller Lite is a "true pilsner"

    All Miller Brewing Company pages are robots.txt'd off to keep minors out, but I managed to dig up exhibit 2: Script of a commercial for MILLER LITE beer.

    So is "golden beer" the accepted generic term for lagers of this type, just as "sparkling wine" is the generic term for wines produced in the Champagne region of France and imitations thereof?

    When a language such as English does not have a formal codification

    Granted in general, but with an important exception: Interstate brand names in American English do have a formal codification maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

    this kind of ignorance of proper usage of such words is practiced only by less than 5% of the world population.

    If you claim that only Americans commit genericide against trademarks, then explain British "hoovering" for sweeping the carpet with a vacuum cleaner.

  5. Is Eddie the Echo the Speedpass Poster Child? by guttentag · · Score: 2 · on The Timex Speedpass Watch
    Meanwhile, McDonald's recently resurrected its "Eddie the Echo" ad campaign about the guy in the nerdy glasses who says everything twice and waves twice as he does so. Could he be a techno geek who would own such a watch? The character was first test-marketed in Silicon Valley. Are they conditioning us to wave our Speedpass watches twice so they can double their sales?

    Funny? Insightful? Paranoid? Probably all of the above.

  6. Why is this surprise? But there is hope... by koganuts · · Score: 1 · on The Tick to be Cancelled

    This is FOX... the same network that initially cancelled Family Guy, only to bring it back after they received a lot of letters. From what I recall, FOX didn't initially know they had a gem with Malcolm in the Middle either.

    Bottom line is, if enough snail-mail letters are sent to FOX (trust me on this, networks give snail-mail more weight than e-mails), there is a possibility that the show could be saved. It's worked in the past for the original Star Trek (thus its third season) as well as Roswell (thus its second season).

    In the case of Roswell, fans sent thousands of bottles of tabasco sauce to The WB as a show of support. With The Tick, perhaps fans can instead send... spoons?

  7. Re:A revelation... by a42 · · Score: 2 · on CmdrTaco's Week with Tivo
    I felt *exactly* the same as you did. Then my wife made me buy one. I don't want to overdramatize things here but it has radically changed the way we watch television. Not only is it easier to program than a VCR, but imagine a VCR that always has a tape ready and knows to tape stuff that you like.

    It's one of those things you have to see to really appreciate. The "TiVolution" will start slowly but it's going to grow.

    There's a good article at TeeVee.org that talks about Tivo.

    --john