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Al Gore Invents Internet TV

Posted by samzenpus on from the can-he-uninvent-spam dept.

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." "

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  1. Next week... by FlyByPC · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...he'll invent SlashDot!

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  2. Al Gore? by iGN97 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The original inventor of the algorithm?

  3. Haven't we had enough.... by rob_squared · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...articles about robots recently?

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    I don't get it.
  4. When will Al Gore's head become... by dspisak · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah keep mocking him. You'll be sorry when he decides to take it back.

  6. no! by barryfandango · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once."

    Maybe in my college days, but never again!

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    In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -Oscar Wilde
  7. Jay Leno's pic of Gore returning to the spotlight by oogoliegoogolie · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_L eno/headlines/H_2871/H_2871_13.jpg

  8. X-Bender by joe_bruin · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Internet-TV hybrid? by Khakionion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, exactly. Except for not at all, but barring that detail, yes, you're right.

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  10. Re:The link? by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looking at this page it's apparant taht Al Gore wants to create FarkTV.

    GOD HELP US ALL.

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  11. Al Gore invented mathematics... by n0rr1s · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that's why they're called Al-Gore-ithms.

    1. Re:Al Gore invented mathematics... by Peer · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're not far off; the word algorithm comes from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi, and Al Gore is actually his granddaughter.

  12. Re:NSF had nothing to do with his funny claim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Then he should have said "I took initiative in helping FUND the internet."

    For those of you keeping score at home:

    Al Gore: 1 semantic slipup

    His Opponent: 12,476 slipups (plus $2e11 mistake penalty), and counting.

  13. Re:How the mighty fall.... by Jeremi · · Score: 4, Funny
    And this man was almost president.


    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...

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