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Big Hollywood : Dim Bulb: Someone Tell Sheryl Crow Her Planet-Killing Light Bulbs Are Showing

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:43:38 +0000

Are you sure they're not fluorescent lights? From looking at the photos, I cannot be certain one way or the other. The bulbs are too small to clearly identify. CFLs are available in bulb shapes, torpedo shapes, reflector floods, as well as the more common spiral shapes. That being said, there are two bulbs that are likely incandescent bulbs and those are the two bulbs that have a purplish or greyish color to them. (Pictures 1 and 4 in the magazine article.) Full-spectrum incandescent bulbs often have a tint just like those in the photos, but I've not seen CFLs with a similar tint. Of course, if two bulbs are incandescent bulbs, it's not unreasonable to assume the rest may be as well, but I'm not sure any definitive conclusions can be drawn from these images insofar as lighting is concerned.

Big Hollywood : RED COUNTY: Time for a Conservative Revival of the 80's Punk Band 'Dead Kennedys'

Fri, 28 May 2010 18:03:24 +0000

What benefits does a punk bank have to offer? Do they have free checking? Do they pay better interest rates? ;)

Big Journalism : Morning Thread: Have the Wheels Come Off Obama's Media Tricycle?

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:17:26 +0000

It would have been amusing had someone been able to respond to him with a quote from Billy Madison: "Mr. [President], what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Big Hollywood : Hollywood's Broke Part 6: Fixing Television

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:29:56 +0000

It may be less expensive to buy NBC. Rumor is Comcast only wanted them for the cable networks anyway, so they may be willing to make a deal. ;)

Big Journalism : About Those 'Racial Slurs:' Real News or Media Propaganda?

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:27:58 +0000

It seems like the MSM is intent on continuing to report this incident as fact, even though, to my knowledge, no evidence has surfaced that the incident ever even occurred. All we have is the word of some Congressmen that this even happened. And, good journalism would seem to require that you don't report the word of a Congressman as a "fact" especially in the light of a lack of evidence. In reading a story just minutes ago on the Twitter assassination calls on ABC News' site, they repeat the incident as though it were a fact. The line reads: "On their way into the House over the weekend, protesters yelled racial and homophobic epithets at entering Congressmen." It does not say that the protesters "allegedly" yelled such insults or that the Congressman claimed to hear the epithets. It is clearly meant to convey the incident as a fact. I think that a significant part of the reason that television and newspapers have declining audiences isn't all because of the Internet. It's because they have long since been exposed as not being able to accurately convey information, even before the Internet became commonplace. The Internet just made it easier for people to find alternatives.

Big Hollywood : NBC May Pull Plug on Disastrous Leno/O’Brien Experiment

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:47:34 +0000

I think too many people frame this as a Leno vs. O'Brien kind of thing. But, they're not the decision makers. So, to a large extent, it doesn't matter who pushed for what, as the ultimate decision will be made by someone else. The type of decision making that has gone on here is the reason that NBC is now a fourth rate network. I remember the days when NBC was "must-see" TV. These days, the network has very little worth watching. And, judging by their ratings, I'm certainly not alone in that opinion. If they thought that O'Brien was the future for The Tonight Show, they should have stuck to their decision and let Leno go to another network. Or, if they thought sticking with Leno was a better choice, they should have let O'Brien go to another network. By essentially being indecisive and trying to keep two hosts, they created a situation that is a bigger disaster than if they had simply let either O'Brien or Leno go to another network. On top of that, they now have to rebuild their 10:00 p.m. and 11:35 p.m. schedules whereas, if they had made a tough decision before, they could have avoided that. As long as NBC's trend of poor decision-making continues, they will continue to be a fourth-rate network. Maybe Comcast will bring in new leadership, because that is where NBC really needs a shake-up.

Breitbart.com : Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:37:05 +0000

I wonder how difficult it was for him to adjust to trying to control a right hand with his left? The robotic hand is a right hand, while it was the left hand that he lost. It seems like that would only add to the difficulty of adjustment, kind of like controlling a mirror image of your hand.