Webmacster87.info is the official blog/website of Douglas Bell, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (USA), and is currently a senior in high school. When he's not spending his time working on homework or writing college application essays, he is a volunteer and student representative for the San Mateo-Foster City, 17th District, and California State PTA, as well as a member of his school's Leadership Class and Peace Club. Online, he maintains this blog and co-hosts the phpBB Weekly podcast.
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Very interesting Daily Show interview here which featured Arianna Huffington (of The Huffington Post) who talked about one of my favorite topics: blogging. She describes blogging just like it is–and Jon Stewart just refuses to “get” it. Nevertheless, I’m going to probably give her new book a try and see if it offers any useful morsels of good blogging information. Nevertheless, it’s good to see people like her spreading the word about what it really means to be a blogger and about just blogging her passion.
And for the record, no, I didn’t know that nine out of ten Italian cheeses are fake. Then again, I didn’t know there was such a thing as Italian cheese. Boy, I’m out of the loop. I guess it’s all in the curds. (Ooh, bad pun!)
Another retro Daily Show clip to share with you on this Happy Thanksgiving. (Isn’t it amazing, I’ve successfully abstained from mentioning the singing turkeys! Err, um, oops…)
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and enjoy your last day of peace before the craziness of the commercial Christmas shopping season starts!
This is a hilarious piece from The A Daily Show with Jon Stewart, from the January 15th show. A pretty interesting reflection on the status of big pharma in the 21st century.
While the writers remain on strike, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have not been airing episodes, which is why I have been so much more productive these past two weeks. However, some of the striking writers themselves have produced an even-lower-budget-than-the-already-low-budget-Daily-Show Daily Show spoof which, in the same style of Jon Stewart, looks at the irony of the media companies NOT wanting to pay their writers, but who ARE trying to sue the pants off of YouTube and other people posting clips of their content online for incredibly inane sums of restitution. Actual Daily Show correspondent John Oliver also cameos in this spoof.
Hopefully the strike will be settled soon with negotiations that are favorable to the writers, but knowing the self-serving, uncontrollable greed past actions of the media companies, it may last awhile.
Jon Stewart is awesome. I will never understand why a silly show like this can actually find and report the actual news of what’s going on while the rest of the US media acts like a big propaganda machine, but this clip of Jon Stewart covering Dave Petraeus’ Iraq Report has to be the best Daily Show clip I’ve ever seen.
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