Tag Archives: TV

Oops

December 22, 2005 – 1:14 pm

Speaking of bad things done with “good” motives:
The story of Kjell Jönsson
This is a story of private jets flying out of Germany, of kidnappings on European streets, and of torture. It has a cast of lawyers, spies, suspected terrorists, innocent bystanders and an ex-CIA boss who believes that ‘human rights is a very flexible concept’.
Scheuer [...]

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Freedom of speech propaganda

December 8, 2005 – 8:48 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has secretly paid Iraqi newspapers to run dozens of pro-American articles written by a special military task force, The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
The newspaper also reported that the “Information Operations Task Force” in Baghdad has bought an Iraqi newspaper and taken control of a radio station, and [...]

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Oprah and Dave

December 2, 2005 – 12:08 am

Together at last - tonight on the Late Show!

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Catching up

December 1, 2005 – 10:24 pm

Man, I am lagging on posting lately; sorry.
At least I finally got caught up on Lost; I watched everything up until episode 9 of the second season (which was just on last night). I downloaded that one this morning but haven’t watched it yet. I like it so far; I think it’s about tied for [...]

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FOX polluting the radio

July 31, 2005 – 6:22 pm

I was kind of surprised this weekend to find the audio of a FOX TV station (SD channel 6) being simulcast on 87.7 FM in San Diego. The frequencies between 87 and 92 are supposed to be reserved for noncommercial radio. This is usually a great thing, since in any town you go to you [...]

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Downloading TV shows

June 21, 2005 – 6:33 pm

I’m moving this discussion to a post to facilitate more conversation.
Dave Z: Re: 30 days. I think you can catch a repeat of it, check your cable schedule.We should watch it together/at the same time and take notes for a online � discussion “.

JB: I already downloaded it yesterday within about an hour of noticing [...]

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30 Days

June 12, 2005 – 9:50 pm

Morgan Spurlock from Super-Size Me (great documentary on fast food - see it if you haven’t) is coming out with a TV show based on the same premise - 30 days of something. In the first installment, he tries to live for 30 days on minimum wage.

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Steak sauce

June 10, 2005 – 11:58 pm

doesn’t float.

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DVR prediction (or suggestion):

May 26, 2005 – 9:08 pm

With most cable companies now offering broadband internet over their cable system, DVRs should come with built-in bit torrent clients that you can use to go back and get shows that you forgot to record when they were on.

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Storytellers

April 30, 2005 – 8:25 pm

I saw this on TV the other day, it was really good. I’ve always liked Springsteen, but I really liked his walk-through of his new song Devils & Dust. I may have to check out the CD if the rest of the songs are good.

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