Posts Tagged ‘TV’

Apple media event today

Posted: 1st September 2010 by Brant in biz, tech
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At 1 pm Eastern today, Apple is hosting a media event to announce new products. For the first time that I am aware of, Apple will stream the event live on the Web.  Note you can only watch with the right hardware/software. Apple announced that the stream will only be viewable on an OS X [...]

iPad and Fast Money

Posted: 31st August 2010 by Brant in biz, tech
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iPads have taken over on the set of CNBC’s program Fast Money. Disclosure: I own Apple stock.

Colbert on gay marriage

Posted: 6th August 2010 by Brant in culture, fun, politics
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Another great bit from Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c How to Ruin Same-Sex Marriages www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News

Everything is amazing and no one is happy

Posted: 17th July 2010 by Brant in culture, fun
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Louis CK:

The chupacabra is real

Posted: 14th July 2010 by Brant in culture
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Or maybe not. You decide. More on the chupacabra from The Awl.

How to identify a bad iPhone

Posted: 14th July 2010 by Brant in fun, tech
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(h/t TUAW)

Taibbi on LeBron

Posted: 11th July 2010 by Brant in biz, culture
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You have to read Matt Taibbi’s full essay on television announcement of LeBron James’ move to Miami. But here is a taste: By any measure it was a landmark moment in the history of human self-involvement, eclipsing previous peaks in the narcissism Himalayas (Nero’s impromptu fiddle concert as Rome burned, the career of the prophet [...]

Family Guy emmy nomination

Posted: 9th July 2010 by Brant in culture, fun, politics
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I love Family Guy. And they just got a nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for this little number. Sarah Palin, were she in the Academy, would not vote for this, I assume.

Disintermediation (updated)

Posted: 27th June 2010 by Brant in biz, culture, tech
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Disintermediation is the process by which a process middleman in a process is eliminated. Remember what the Internet did to travel agents? Who uses a travel agent these days? And how about bricks-and-mortor book stores? Well, we are (finally) getting closer to disintermediation of the cable TV companies. The Internet is a terrific platform for [...]

Quote of the day

Posted: 12th June 2010 by Brant in biz, politics
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I don’t think we can call it the Gulf of Mexico any more. We broke it; we bought it. – Stephen Colbert, after referring to the “Gulf of America”, on the Comedy Central television program The Colbert Report, 2010-06-07 (via Quotation of the Day Mailing List).

Carly Fiorina discovers the open mike

Posted: 10th June 2010 by Brant in politics
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Oh my. Carly Fiorina, GOP candidate running against Barbara Boxer, unknowlingly spoke on open mike about her opponent’s hairstyle, and other issues.

New GaGa

Posted: 8th June 2010 by Brant in culture, fun
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Alejandro.

Apple/iPad/iTunes TV

Posted: 6th June 2010 by Brant in biz, tech
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Adam Lisagor has written a (long) essay speculating on the experience of watching video on an iPad, and what may be coming in the near future by way of Apple TV. I don’t agree with it all but he is right, I think, in speculating that the iPad is a key part of the future [...]

Netflix and the iPad

Posted: 20th May 2010 by Brant in biz, tech
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Yesterday Netflix upgraded their app for the iPad. What does the upgrade do? It allows iPad owners to output Netflix’s streaming movies from the iPad to a TV. This is a great new feature.

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One of my favorites from 1986. “I Wanna Be a Cowboy” by Boys Don’t Cry. On MTV, April, 1986. Bonus video: David + David performing “Welcome to the Boomtown.”  I moved to LA in 1984 and this became, in 1986, more or less a theme song for what I found when I moved to Hollywood. [...]