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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-overtime-pay dept.

partridge writes "Carson Daly's simulacrum is the new Max Headroom. I guess this makes Clear Channel Communications the current embodiment of Network 23? Now we just have to wait for the blipverts to start making consumer's heads explode."

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  1. Where's my... by Valiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...seizure? I miss cyberpunk TV where any show could do me in.

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  2. S1M0NE rocked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a troll, right? That kak wasn't really # 13/208!

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  4. Huh? by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What in the world is this article about?

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  5. Who needs blipverts? by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That hip-hop crap Daly's introducing is already enough to make my head explode....

    Ah, Bach!

  6. Re:Wha? by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh thanks for explaining it. Now people'll try to pass off their typos as Max Headroom impressions.

  7. WOOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    100% troll!

  8. Re:We've already got Blipverts! by Anonym0us+Cow+Herd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you watch the Discovery Channel or TLC you've no doubt seen blipverts. You know, where an obviously mechanically processed human voice comes on and speaks at very high speed. So fast that it requires a great cognitive effort to decipher what is being said.

    Because when I watch TV I want to veg out (otherwise I'd be on my computer, or reading) I find these blipverts to be very annoying. In fact I find them to be the most offensive form of television advertising that I've ever come across. So much so, that I usually turn the channel instantly. I may ordinarily channel surf, but when I see those Discovery blipverts, you've never seen me move so fast for the remote!

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  9. A Geocities Link In A Slashdot article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That must have lasted all of .03 seconds before it ran out of bandwidth.

  10. This post makes no sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I suggest the person posting the article, and the person approving it should take a course in technical communication. Sorry to flame, but cmon. The sentence structure is terrible.

  11. slashdotting a geocities page. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    weak.

  12. site down. surprise-surprise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    really, is it so hard for a paid outfit like /. to have an editor guideline like: if the submission includes a link to a server that obviously can't handle our load [geocities for petessakes], then add a comment with a substitute when possible.

    sure, you can't protect everyone, but you can certainly do more than you do. and you're paid, so start acting like it. /. hasn't been a 'when i have time for it' hobby for a long while.