Author: Richard

Myspace Changes to mimic Facebook. Again.

The new layout goes back to the 3 column design, making the 3rd rightmost a music bar, displaying what your friends listened to recently. I have been saying for 2 years now that Myspace needs to make its comeback by going back to its music & comedian roots. This music bar should also include music videos and comedian audio and video. FREE ADVICE, Myspace… you should take it.

Stay with your dogs as they die

You know those anonymous post cards that i forget the details about but people would send in saying random things they learned about life or personal secrets or world truths or whatever? read this one and feel your soul collapse into itself like a black hole of Sadz:

Extra crusher (for me): the pup behind the card-in-the-card looks a lot like my yellow lab, Buddy, who died a few days after Christmas in 09, so I was still at my parents house when he went and it just so happened that it was right before my dad left for work so the 3 of us were all around him, giving him a comforting pet as he sailed off into the blackness.

The thought of an animal, whose world is so limited as to not know much OF a world beyond its owner, being without that owner as it possibly panics or feels abandoned as its life fades away = heartbreaking 🙁

UPDATE: visual reference/remembrance of Buddy:


Pie thrown at Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a protestor wielding a shaving foam pie as he gave evidence at the Culture Media and Sport committee on phone-hacking.
His wife Wendi Deng was quick to defend her husband.

Leaving the rest of us to wonder:

Or was it all planned as a Murdoch publicity conspiracy to divert the headlines away from his non-admissions of any guilt or responsibility and onto some kook who got bitchslapped by Mrs Murdoch?

Planking vs Owling

Since this “craze” has lasted more than a week, I feel obligated to mention its existence for the history records: Planking is a thing where people lay down and take a picture of it and for some reason that is supposed to be a hilarious inside joke. Even though, i’m sure it can be, sarcasm aside. It’s easy to be snide about humor you’re not part of or don’t get, but whatever makes the kids happy, I say go for it. It’s still weird though. But if you see some of the more unusual ones, you can kindov imagine how this could be a silly thing thats fun enough to be a legit thing that people do. I mean..watch this video and try to keep a cynical eye on this fad:

It’s all about the unusual (i think) so I can dig that. Unless only the unusual ones are getting the media attention. then thats lame. but if im understanding it correctly – a plank on a bed or couch would only be posted ironically.

But if you think laying flat on things can’t be dangerous, guess again. This dude died trying to plank on a 7th story balcony.

Then of course, there’s this: Continue reading Planking vs Owling

Japanese Girls win some kind of thing or something

since when are girls allowed to play sports? and in JAPAN? wtf is happening to this world? i havent actually seen any of this sporting event or whatever it was. i just read about it on the internetz cuz the twitterfacebook people were all blee bloo blah about some kind of sporting japanese girl slapfight or something (??). watevs yo.

I feel like this is appropriate for the occasion:

yeay?

Piling on “the Murdoch Press”

As investigations against News Corp. get rolling in the U.K. and possibly the U.S. over e-mail and phone hacking, critics of CEO Rupert Murdoch have been trying hard with the lengths they’re going to to try and make this an America relevant scandal to rock the ages and sink the Murdoch empire. Instead of letting it play out to find out who the bad guys in this situation are, I have been seeing tons of blog and press from Murdochs competitors make that decision.

Mostly it’s just silly grasping at straws. Like this video was posted by the increasingly disappointing ThinkProgress.org with the headline “FLASHBACK: Rupert Murdoch Smacks Down Fox News Host For Bringing Up Hacking Scandal”. I fell for the bait thinking that I was in for a treat with something juicy. What kind of twitchy body language of annoyance or anger would Murdoch show as he told one of his employees to shut up and fall in line? What degrading “don’t forget your place here, boy” type of slam was I in for?

MURDOCH: I’m not talking about that issue at all today, I’m sorry.

and thats it… The dude essentially said “no comment” and Lee Fang writing at Think Progress just made up an alternate reality over it.

VARNEY: The story that is really buzzing all around the country and certainly here in New York is that the News of the World, a News Corporation Newspaper in Britain, used–

MURDOCH: I’m not talking about that issue at all today, I’m sorry.

VARNEY: Okay. No worries, Mr. Chairman that’s fine with me!

Murdoch: I’m too far removed out of here.

Isn’t lying in journalism – even if you don’t like the person or thing you’re lying about – bad journalism? Shouldn’t people who criticize Murdochs publications for doing that, maybe…not do that themselves? It’s also amusing that the beef against Newscorp publications is that they’re allegedly fake news (“Faux News” is an old meme), yet this whole scandal is about Newscorp being so dedicated to reporting news that employees may have illegally hacked into politicians and crime victims phones.

Fox News Watch, a weekend show on the Fox News Channel that discusses media reaction to news items sums up the details of the scandal before discussing here:

Outrage over the audacity of Fox News to allege that their critics and competitors excessive coverage has been excessive has of course already started and will continue with this clip, I’m sure, as it reiterates what I’ve been saying for weeks and what was said during a brief segment on FNC’s morning show Fox & Friends earlier: y’all are lookin silly as f#ck over this.

Rebekah Brooks, Newscorp International CEO has been arrested in London. if she’s guilty of hacking someones phone – throw the book at her. If Rupert Murdoch knew this was happening – throw a copy of the first book at him too. It’s interesting news on it’s own. why do people feel compelled to lie about it to make it even more sensational?

Amazon is kindov Awesome

Commenting on Netflix’s new price increases, I noted:

I use amazon prime. it includes free 2 day shipping on anything you buy from amazon – which was why i had it in the first place. one day they just added free streaming movies as a perk to my membership. HINT: that is how you do it, Netflix… surprise users with free new features, not with old features that now cost double what you were paying…

I was later alerted to this occurance below. I didn’t make this image, but the exact same thing happened to me a little over a year ago with the exact same result and it made me very pleased with Amazon. I have since become an intentional paying member of Amazon Prime.

compare this to Netflix’s shenanigans: