THIS is a good painting of Barack Obama.
THESE are BAD PAINTINGS of BARACK OBAMA.
(Like I needed to point out the difference to you.)
Month: March 2009
If you do not watch Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on a regular basis, you will miss out on the occasional must-see gem of an interview.
It’s not often that you will find this type of good, informative, well-researched, engaging interview on what is, in essence, a comedy program. But Jon’s interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer is absolutely fantastic.
It is said that more college-age kids and young adults get their new and information from The Daily Show than from traditional media outlets. With interviews like this, I can certainly see why.
Well done, Jon. Keep up the good work.
PART 1
It’s nothing new to report that Disney animators (and animators in general) reuse pieces of animation in their various works. Heck, computer programmers do the same thing by reusing code libraries so they don’t have to build the same thing from scratch every time.
Have you even looked at a Garfield or Cathy panel lately? Ack! It’s almost the same thing every day.
Note that this is a different issue from the common “Disney stole my work” lawsuits that crop up every so often.
You hate that website because they came up with a way to make money off of their site and you haven’t figured out how to do the same thing with yours.
Two new book deals were announced today, both of them are based on websites previously featured here on Web Watch:
The BUSINESS INSIDER is reporting that Maxime Valette and Guillaume Passaglia’s website F*** MY LIFE, which is based on its own French website and book, is going into book form and will be published in July 2009. Not a bad way to turn someone else’s misery into dollars.
To top that off, another website that is based on reader’s submissions – THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT, is also getting the book treatment. At the very least, they were upfront about saying that was what they were going to do — upfront to those who bothered to read the fine print, that is.
You know why those weekday afternoon television judge shows are so popular? Because everybody likes to hear other people’s dirty laundry and then voice an opinion on it by yelling at the TV.
Of course, yelling at the TV doesn’t effect the outcome of the situation.
So if you are looking for a place where you can hear an argument and take a side, you’ll want to check out SIDETAKER.
If you are having an argument with someone and just can’t come to an amicable agreement, why not take your case to the Internet and have other people decide who is right and who is wrong.
Some of the questions that are posed are relatively benign:
I do not know anyone who would be willing to take this bet. It certainly would make for an interesting end to March Madness tournament betting, especially for those who are always looking for the ultimate bet payoff with one’s friends: THE HUMAN LITTERBOX.
All the loser has to do is use a cat litterbox for a week instead of the toilet.
Sure, you’d have to figure out what to do about using the facilities at the workplace, but that could be easily arranged as litterboxes are fairly portable. What could possibly go wrong with this idea?
Apparently, this is not a new concept. Cats are writing advice columns on how to deal with messy humans, and Half-Bakery even has a suggestion on using kitty litter as a way to keep your bathroom clean between scrubs…and they’ve done the math in how humans and cats differ in pee volume.
I know what you’re thinking – someone did think that there was a practical reason to poop in a cat box. GEM718 asked Yahoo Questions the following: “Can I Poop in My Cat’s Litter Box to Train her to Do So? My kitten is 5 weeks old, and she just will NOT use her litter box. I needed to know if I were to take a dump in her litter box, would she get the idea?”
You’re just going to have to click the link to see the answer for yourself.
Whether you call it the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship, March Madness, Bracketology, or the World’s Best Office Pool, every year office work grinds to a halt as millions of people sweat over their 63 game selections as they fill out their basketball brackets – hoping ultimately to win their local office pool.
How tough is it to pick the perfect tournament bracket? Try 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1 (nine quintillion, if you lost track of the number of commas in that number).
Officially, the NCAA does not support using the grid in any form of gambling, and frowns upon the amount of effort thrown at filling out the brackets for monetary gain.
Got that? Good. Now that THAT is out of the way, let’s talk about the 10 BEST WAYS TO FILL OUT YOUR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKET SO YOU CAN WIN YOUR OFFICE POOL.
(Okay, we may cover more than 10 rules for you to follow while filling out your bracket, but who’s counting?)
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Making Money at Guitar Hero
If you’re a band trying to make it big by touring college campuses (like I LOVE COLLEGE‘s Asher Roth) or just waiting to sign a deal with a label (and finding out with a music royalty calculator that you owe more to the label than they’re paying you), then maybe you need to rethink your game.
Maybe you need to focus your energy on making music for Guitar Hero and not for CDs and MP3 downloads.
Why? Because that’s where the real money is these days. Video games and music tie-ins. Heck, the music-related video games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and others pulled in US$2.3 billion in three years.