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Archive for April, 2006

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Sunday, April 30th, 2006

I can’t leave this Da Vinci Code story alone. The 71-page judgement written by Judge Peter Smith contains a code. That sound you hear is western civilization grinding to a halt.
You can find a pdf of the judgement here. In it are random italicized letters. Take them all together and they spell…
(smithycode) j a e i [...]

What About Inter-Room Sharing?

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

The RIAA and MPAA are advancing into the next frontier of lawsuit targets. First they went after Napster and shut it down, leaving only de-centralized file sharing systems like Gnutella. Since there is no central server to shut down, they went after individual file sharers, such as a 12-year-old girl or people who rip CDs [...]

Sweeps, Under the Rug

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Today marks the beginning of May Sweeps! The race is on! Keep a jaundiced eye on your local news because they get affected the worst.
Sweeps is a month-long phenomenon in which the Nielsen Ratings people devote extra scrutiny to the data. They supply more viewing diaries to more viewers and go into greater detail. There [...]

Ratings Watch: Only 3 Genres!

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

America’s vision narrows - we only want to see detective shows, medical shows, or American Idol. Numbers are ratings/households(millions).

American Idol (TUE) — 16.6/24.4
American Idol (WED) — 16.5/27.63
House  — 13.7/22.6
CSI — 12.2/18.8
Without a Trace — 11.6/16.9
CSI: Miami — 10.8/16.3
Desperate Housewives — 10.4/15.7
CSI: NY — 10.3/15.1
NCIS — 10.1/15.9
Grey’s Anatomy — 9.7/14.6

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Lordi Mercy

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I used this story for a cheap laugh last week, but it turns out to be funnier with details.
Thanks to the New York Times, I got the hookup about Lordi, Finland’s controversial entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Understand that Eurovision winners tend to sound like Abba and Celine Dion - in fact, those [...]

My Heart Will Go On - In 3D!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

The director of Titanic, True Lies and Terminator 2 sees “a future in 3D.” Given his tenacious titling tendencies, maybe it should be 3T… Anyway, James Cameron says he has been considering a re-release of Titanic in the IMAX 3D format, and is currently lensing his Journey To The Center Of The Earth using stereographic cameras. Cameron [...]

Box Office Weekly #012

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Box Office Weekly #012 (MP3 - 8.64 MB - 25 min)
A show in England gets cancelled after only 43 years… Silent Hill calls attention to itself…. and in my commentary I make you admit that you’re a criminal! All this and a crack appears in American Idol’s absolute domination of television, today on Box Office [...]

Odds, Ends

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Will Smith Crashes Bar Mitzvah
Somewhere, there are pictures of Will Smith doing the Macarena. Get jiggy wit dat! 
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Have Baby
Pre-order Suri’s harrowing autobiography, due out in 2046.
“Lost” Creator to Revive Star Trek Franchise
“Kirk meets Spock when they crash-land on a desert planet, but they discover that the planet is full of enigmatic secrets [...]

Radio Snake Eats Own Tail

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Morning radio, as you must already know, is a lucrative affront to civilization. It’s bad, bad, bad. Judging by ratings, it hasn’t gotten much worse than “Diamond” David Lee Roth’s short-lived replacement gig for the Howard Stern show. Sources say (not to me, I’m getting this from the Associated Press) that Roth’s show is just [...]

Judges Promote Workplace Harassment

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

The California Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Amaani Lyle, 32, a writer’s assistant who had filed a claim of sexual harassment against the sitcom FRIENDS. In the suit, she alleges that she was subjected to frank sexual talk and raunchy humor during the writers meetings for which she took notes. The judges agreed.
However, [...]