Stella is an absolutely out-there, gut bustingly funny show based on an established night club routine thought up by three guys. It is the height of random or abstract humor. Every critic I know of spoke very highly of this group of guys. They only made one season.
You can watch it on Hulu here. If you really want I’ve posted what’s probably my favorite episode, or one that I remember being really good, after the break for you to check out. These guys were really ahead of their time, in my opinion.
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Google Earth version 5.0 was released today for across all end-user operating systems. What is most striking to me is the fact that in just a few short years, this app has gone from being the most remarkable program running on my machine to an interesting note in the history of maps applications.
Today I have Google Earth on my iPhone, minus some features. After having the whole world in your pocket on the train, having to sit at a desk to zoom in on the crowds at the Eiffel Tower seems impossible. If the functionality that Google Earth provides is not with you when you need it, it is useless. It’s neat to view the oceans, but I live on the land.
After a brief courtship phase with the promo video and David Lee Songsmith, Songsmith is finally being used to destroy the memories of your childhood and replace them with Picasso inspired chimera. You can blame the internet, again, for mixing the vocal tracks with very weird musical backing instruments on all sorts of songs from years past. Everything from the Beatles, to the Police, to Oasis has been broken.
I’ve added some YouTube videos in the rest of the post as exhibits A-D. More examples are available at TechCrunch and Gizmodo.
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Jack Thompson was permanently disbarred a while ago, but I wanted to have a reference to some of the court transcripts from the hearings for my own reference. Jack is a very interesting case to me. He has the right motive, but executes in way the wrong way. For those who don’t know, Jack has been an outspoken critic of video games, especially violent video games, prosecuting cases where many people thought the link to video games was tenuous at best.
His tactics, however, were far from Christian (or even humane). He inserted pornography as evidence into cases that it had nothing to do with, would harass by letters and emails his “enemies,” and knowingly lie. But, still, the idea of keeping violent video games out of children’s hands is something that absolutely everyone believes in, especially those who play video games often. Even with a white knight agenda, hate and rhetoric are his legacy. Behold the case of the proud, violent man.