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Reno 911! Cancelled By Comedy Central – Television – Gawker

Reno 911! Cancelled By Comedy Central – Television – Gawker.

THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE

Note: THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE was originally published in Rolling Stone. For whatever reason Jann “Yawn” Wenner hasn’t put a digital copy online. That may change. Fortunately there is a scanned copy in PDF form. Finally an OCR copy has been made and posted by – of all people – an SA goon namedContinue reading “THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE”

The greatest moment in the history of broadcast television (except for maybe the fake moon landing)

I like to claim the title of “Amateur Expert” in almost every area, but if there’s one thing I know, it is television. The clip is below. I think I’ve watched enough television to be able to spot it’s high water mark, and I would have to say it’s this performance by Alec Baldwin andContinue reading “The greatest moment in the history of broadcast television (except for maybe the fake moon landing)”

Reporter runs a spam campaign on air via botnet

This is amazing. I always knew that running a spam campaign would be easy – once you got in touch with the “rancher” but I’ve never actually seen an operator run one. The BBC television program Click has done an episode where a reporter shows – once you have everything in place – just howContinue reading “Reporter runs a spam campaign on air via botnet”

Time-Warner Merger Trivia

At the time (pun intended) it was the largest corporate merger in US history. For some reason the lawyers were able to convince the shareholders that a merger of the two companies would be hugely profitable for them. Synergies would abound! Redundancies would be found! Efficiencies would know no bounds! In fact, for a while,Continue reading “Time-Warner Merger Trivia”