Our news media is already difficult to follow when you’re listening to it normally, but what if you’re watching it somewhere without any kind of volume, voice, or sound for context. Then you get this hilarious result, which was exemplified by The Daily Show in this awesome sketch called News at the Gym.
Tags: funny, gym, Jason Jones, Jon Stewart, media, News, The Daily Show, Video
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.
Tags: Daily Show, Jon Stewart, media, spoof, strike, Viacom, Video, writers, YouTube
When Apple previewed the Apple TV (then code-named the iTV) in October 2006, and released it five months later, a number of people noticed that Apple TV’s interface looked quite a bit better than that of Front Row, which had been introduced on the iMac exactly one year prior. Well, that claim has now vanished, as Front Row 2, in Leopard, is the exact same interface as the Apple TV. Front Row doesn’t have very many other new perks, however, in fact, three of the five “new features” listed under the Front Row category existed in the last version of Front Row, so who knows why Apple considered them “new.” Nevertheless, let’s take a look at the new Front Row in Leopard.
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Tags: Apple Remote, Apple TV, features, Front Row, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, media, menus, review
Not only does Leopard bring along a brand new Finder (review of that coming later this month), but the open and save panels have been updated to reflect the new changes. There is now a brand new sidebar in both panels that include the same new sidebar that you see in Finder, but the new open and save panels also include some new features that have not been seen thus far.
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Tags: features, files, Finder, flexibility, iLife, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, media, open, panels, review, save
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.
Tags: Daily Show, Dave Petraeus, funny, Iraq, Jon Stewart, media, News, Video, YouTube
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