Larry Lessig in slightly over 12 minutes compares Pailn against every Vice-President in U.S. history and still has time to ponder the chances that she could become President Palin.
Palin pales dreadfully in the comparison: She is the second least experienced VP candidate in history. What's more the historical odds are 1 in 5 that she would have to assume the Presidency. However, given that John McCain is the oldest Presidential candidate in history and has a history of cancer, the chances are even higher.
The following is a smattering of shows currently saved on my Tivo as "suggestions" -- shows that I didn't ask for but that Tivo thinks I would like. Usually, there are some pretty good ones and the ones that aren't can usually be traced to other trends (like watching a couple of cartoons opens up the Cartoon Network gates).
But suddenly, the Suggestions have utterly gone to crap. Here's just a very small smattering of them:
- "It's All Gospel"
- "The best videos of chart-topping artists"
- America's Heartland
- "A family farm creates multiple organic products; bluegrass music; products made from bales of straw, annual wild-rice harvest"
- P. Allen Smith Gardens
- "Planting hydrangeas; hydrangeas in arrangements and wreaths; snowball viburnum"
- Rhinestone (Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Richard Farnsworth)
- A country singer bets her considerable virtue she can make a New York cabby a star in only two weeks
- The Jamie Kennedy Experiment
- Melissa Joan Hart and Jamie bungle a mother/daughter reunion on the set of a talk show
What. In. The. HELL? Who's been watching crappy ass television with my Tivo? Did Tivo get a big new investor recently from somewhere deep in the middle of the country? Get out of my television!!
Pandora needs your help right NOW!
Dear Pandora fans -
We urgently need your help! We need you to make a phone call to support internet radio.
After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, SoundExchange and the RIAA are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and internet radio. But just as we've gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress.
Yesterday, Congressman Jay Inslee, and several co-sponsors, introduced legislation to give us the extra time we need but the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which represents radio broadcasters such as Clear Channel, has begun intensively pressuring lawmakers to kill the bill. We have just a day or two to keep this from collapsing.
This is a blatant attempt by large radio companies to suffocate the webcasting industry that is just beginning to offer an alternative to their monopoly of the airwaves.
Please call your Congressperson right now.
Call 202-225-3121 and ask for your representative.
Ask them to support H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. Congress is currently working extended hours, so even calls this evening and over the weekend should get answered.
The Criterium: 60 minutes to go as fast as necessary to stay in front of the pack.
SF Twilight Criterium on Union Street. Watching the women race now. Headed to the corner at the bottom of the hill for the mens race, ready for spills :D
Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don't Want To Live Any More ...
I think this is pretty genius.
