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Entries from September 2007

House: Alone

September 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

While this most certainly serve as a replacement for the full on reviews that I’d been doing of this show over at TV Squad, and I will most certainly point you all over there, where Richard Keller picked up that awesome assignment, I figured I might, from time to time, share my thoughts on […]

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Thursday Roundup: 9/20/07

September 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

Well, I’ve seen great success with other fun link-fests on blogs I’ve written for, and I wanted to make sure I’m bringing that same hustle to TMD, so I’m going to try and do a roundup like this at least once per week of things that I’m reading that I’m thinking you need to read […]

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Kottke on Krugman

September 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

Jason Kottke continues to be - and I have no vested interest in saying this - one of the smartest and most observant people (forget bloggers for a second) I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. I mean, sure, we can all read this from Krugman and get the drift, but the small stuff is […]

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BusinessWire’s feeds

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Hey Business Wire, you know that I love you, but what’s up with your feeds only having the first few words of any press release? Makes it kind of annoying while I’m traveling to not be able to see whole items. Just a thought.
Oh, and PRN, what’s up with the feeds I have for you? […]

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Hysterical Southwest ad

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

On Wednesday, Engadget posted a hysterical ad (it seems legit, at least) for Southwest Airlines that you have to see to believe. Obviously it’s not really the Wii controllers (or PlayStation 3, for that matter, as the ad is described on Gamebrink), but it’s a freaking riot.

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Chris Crocker to get TV shot?

September 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

According to Variety’s Josef Adalian, Britney defender Chris Crocker has scored a TV deal to do a “docusoap,” whatever that really is.

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Siskel & Ebert review archive

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Jason Kottke posts about the archive of all archives containing all the televised reviews of that duo (and its later evolution). Chris Thilk, eat your heart out.

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PC World, Macworld get new leader

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

PC World Communications & Mac Publishing, the parents of PC World and Macworld publications, announced Friday that Mike Kisseberth had been named president & CEO of the organization. Kisseberth was most recently at CNET Networks, where he was SVP of corporate sales and operations.

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The Economist is everywhere

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

I thought it much that The Economist was over on LinkedIn (I’ve subscribed now), but now it seems they’ve taken big note of the online space, and have bought into an Allied Info from Thrillist. Nice.

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50 Cent in this week’s Time

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Just got tipped off to “10 Questions for 50 Cent,” an “interview” made up of questions from 10 individuals that Time is publishing tomorrow, but is online as of today. There were some notable comments from 50, namely “…but I like Hillary,” and when taking a dig at Kanye West pushing his album at the […]

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