I’m trying out blogtorrent on my server here, and my first test file is a 12 minute clip (MPEG2, 224Mb) from tonight’s Dennis Miller show with Harry Shearer, Xeni Jardin, and Mickey Kaus, as they talked about blogging. I think all three were great though I can barely stomach Dennis Miller these days.
Throughout the late [...]
This Week in God is the highlight of TV for the entire week for me. Those three minutes make paying $60/month for programming worth it.
“Sir, this is Professor Lawrence Lessig.
The Future of Ideas? That Lawrence Lessig?”
Ok, that was kind of weird, but amusing. Here’s a 20Mb MPEG2 clip that’s about a minute long from last night’s West Wing.
Yep, if you check the last page of Lessig’s CV, he had a hand in writing the constitution for Belarus.
The google video search is pretty freaking cool. You can tell they’re scraping show transcripts which lots of services already have (I seem to recall something called TVeyes used to email me when the word “blog” or “metafilter” was mentioned on TV, which used to happen only once or twice a year). But they also [...]
I just spent a couple hours futzing with various scripts on various servers so that I could get all my TiVo’s info online. And yes, this is what I consider fun after-work activities.
I want a chip embedded in my TV that filters out commercials featuring frisky elderly people talking about 4 hour erections.
Please.
I love documentaries and one of my favorite shows on TV is the quasi-documentary/news show Frontline on PBS. It’s always been pretty good, with 2 or 3 standout shows every season, but a lot of fluff and repeats in between.
This year however, they have been absolutely on fire with great broadcasts week after week. [...]
If you caught the final episode of IFC’s show Film School, they mention that Vincenzo gets a Volvo commerical. It looks like they awarded three filmmakers from the NYU program. The films are on the new Volvo site, here’s Vincenzo’s film. It looks a lot like the cafe film he did on the show, but [...]
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