Some links for a holiday weekend
Tomorrow is the 4th of July. It is a federal holiday and many people will not have to work. Though today is not a holiday. Some people will work, some people will not. I find this troubling. Since the 4th floats across the week year to year, it should be treated like Christmas whereas the vacation is rouded up or down to the nearest weekend. Okay.
G4 TV, making friends left and right! The G4 cable network (formerly TechTV) is starting a new campaign geared to attracting people to its late-night offerings. The gimmick: threatening your friends late at night. You sign up your friends through their website and then they will receive threatening phone calls telling them to watch this programming. What a delight.
A way to kill 108 minutes. A new site, EnterTheCode.com wonders if anyone will let the Lost-countdown-clock actually reach zero. As of this writing, the answer is no. It has been reset 695 times. Part of me says this is a bit much as I like Lost but refuse to stare at a countdown clock all day, though the other part of me is seriously intrigued by the notion that the internet is far too vast to actually let the time expire. Doing so would require much cooperation. I like it.
Apple to conquer the livingroom. Here’s an article/mockup of the mythical iVault, the ultimate entertainment component. I’m ready for it, but I suspect it could be some years before it happens. Though it WILL happen. But maybe, I’m wrong, maybe its closer than we think. iTunes has only been selling TV shows for 9 months, and yet it seems like ages. The future looks awesome/expensive.
July 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Dude: I feel like anyone with a corporate (or non-hourly, non-government, non-daily media) job was not working today. Pretty much exactly like the Monday before a Tuesday Christmas.
July 4th, 2006 at 12:25 am
What I’m proposing would be to extend the weekend in either direction. A Thursday July 4th, equals vacation of Thursday thru Sunday. Oh, and The Wire, YouTube, HBO, and The Late Show– there, now its about television.