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Al Gore Invents Internet TV
catdevnull writes "The SF Gate is reporting that former VP Al Gore is launching "Current" a new CableTV-Internet hybrid. From the article: "Current, the name of Gore's enterprise, hopes to do that by airing a shuffle of short news features, some produced by the network but many submitted online by viewers. Current will also air segments every half hour showing TV viewers what Google searchers are tapping into at that moment -- everything from current events to tourist destinations. It's all directed at a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once." "
...he'll invent SlashDot!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
"Al Gore's endorsement should be enough for anybody"
The original inventor of the algorithm?
...articles about robots recently?
I don't get it.
Emperor of the Moon? It's taking too damn long.
A TV show or short segment showing what people are looking for on Google? Oh god, I can just imagine it now:
193.53.2.10 is looking for "l33t w@r3z" with 57 hits
Oh but check this out! 216.23.129.44 is looking for "vast right wing conspiracy" with 683,000 hits!
101.23.64.99 is looking for "CENSORED" with 2,947,345 hits. What a perv!
Etc.
Wait... what? There is porn on the Internet!? Why am I always the last to find out about these things.
Uh, is Al sure he wants to broadcast how often people are searching for pr0n, and the different "kind" of pr0n they're looking for?
What would Tipper say??
He's making "liberal TV" But he says he's not.
Nah, I'd guess it to be more like Robot Wars 24/7.
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
Yeah keep mocking him. You'll be sorry when he decides to take it back.
"...a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once."
Maybe in my college days, but never again!
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -Oscar Wilde
April Fools is over for more than 5 days now!
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_L eno/headlines/H_2871/H_2871_13.jpg
Announcing Car Bot: Thank you all for coming. It is my pleasure to
introduce the host of the Kyoto global warming convention. The
inventor of the environment, and first emperor of the moon, Al Gore.
Al Gore: I have ridden the mighty moon worm!
[Applause]
Fry: Good for him.
Get your Unix fortune now!
Yes, exactly. Except for not at all, but barring that detail, yes, you're right.
OMG! Wau!
That's what most Google searches are for. And all the ad breaks will be infomercials for Viagra etc.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
1. Used "groupthink" in a sentence.
2. Thinks Gore bragging about having voted to fund the growth of the internet is somehow "damning" or "Gore having claimed to invented the internet".
We have ourselves a Fox News Zombie!
And Microsoft invented the Binary Numbers.
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From the description in this news article, "Current" sounds like MTV without the music tapes. String together all the semi-hip news and pretentious lecture-in-disguise clips MTV now offers, and you get "Current"!
A friend who has participated in numerous "brainstorm" sessions in TV industry once described those meetings as "plenty of saliva storm but no brain". Now I know why.
The report says Gore bought the network for $70 million; my graphic blog, http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/, does not cost a dime to produce and offers plenty of entertainment.
Sun and Fun
And all of us on /. are ever so thankful for internet related legislation.
Skeptic: "Sir, do you really think that George W. Busch singlehandedly got a bunch of CIA agents together and told them to create a national crisis that would make the American people 'call for help', allowing for the creation of a national secret police founded and staffed by Busch henchmen while simultaneously sending the price of gasoline through the roof and making his fatcat oil friends even wealthier?"
Response: "I don't know, YOU TELL ME!"
Democratic followup: "Dubya isn't smart enough to do that. Just look at him for God's sake!"
Republican followup: "Yes, he is."
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Looking at this page it's apparant taht Al Gore wants to create FarkTV.
GOD HELP US ALL.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
...that's why they're called Al-Gore-ithms.
For those of you keeping score at home:
Al Gore: 1 semantic slipup
His Opponent: 12,476 slipups (plus $2e11 mistake penalty), and counting.
Thank God we dodged that bullet, eh? With the wrong man in charge we might have ended up, oh, I don't know, invading the wrong country by mistake or something...
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
We have a good but dull president. The clown who said he invented the Internet is now off inventing the cable network.