Keen Thursday links and TV stuff

[yendi]

Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc, has developed Wikicalc. It's pretty much what you'd expect from the name, and the alpha version runs on Mac/Windows/Linux. (Link ganked from the always-entertaining Rocketboom).

The RIAA is claiming that ripping CDs to play on your iPod or other MP3 player is not legal (in spite of having admitted otherwise in court in the past). Every time they pull crap like this, I find myself less inclined to buy CDs at all.

Real Time with Bill Maher returns tomorrow! You think there'll be a Dick Cheney hunting joke or three? The delightful Helen Thomas has already been announced as one of his guests.

Since Veronica Mars was on hiatus, we caught Lost last night, which was nifty, but I'm also a wee bit concerned that, judging from the "previously" and from the episode itself, nothing at all has happened in the three or four episodes that we missed. But hey, Clancy Brown! Guess having kingofbreakfast as a writer has an influence on casting. :-)

Drawn Together wasn't as good as usual, but was still funny. They pulled off one of the few genuinely funny fart jokes in years (since 1975, actually). And the Hero/Xander plotline was great from the start.

Next week, no new Lost, no Scrubs, no new Veronica Mars, no Gilmore Girls, no new Everybody Hates Chris. Man, our Tivo's going to be sad. At least we get House and Drawn Together.

Comments

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

God, the RIAA are a bunch of idiots. I paid for the damn CD, that means that as long as I don't plan on selling them, I can make as many copies as I want!!

[yendi]

*nod* Exactly. And the RIAA said as much back when they were going after file-sharing. It's only now, when they need a new scapegoat for why their sales are down, they they've changed their mind.

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Just remember, House is going to be on MOnday night next week, not Tuesday. Why, I don't know.

[yendi]

*nod* Our Tivo remembers for us. :-)

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Cool. We have DVR and onDemand...which is basically the same thing. I don't know what I ever did before we had it.

[mfree.livejournal.com]

*sigh*. RIAA needs to make the go-aways, preferably in a nonviolent fashion.

[yendi]

Agreed.

[mfree.livejournal.com]

P.S. I love loading sentences with phrasing that seems innocuous on the surface :)

So, how long would it take for the RIAA resistance squads to form?

[digriz.livejournal.com]

Just wait until the RIAA starts claiming that you don't actually *BUY* the CD, you only rent it, and therefore you need to start making monthly payments on it.

[mfree.livejournal.com]

At that point I'd love to see some "unknown assailants" abscond with a few dozen trailerloads of unsold CDs and dump them in boston harbor.

Actually, isn't RIAA doing that now with the "license for content" clauses?

[spookykat.livejournal.com]

The whole "nothing ever happens" is why I am the only person on the planet, I think, who can't get into Lost. It's like the writers have NOOOOO friggin' clue where to go next.

[listeningowl.livejournal.com]

you are not the only person on the planet that does not watch Lost.
Drawn Together does rock. It gives me some hope for animation in the US. The new stuff on Adult Swim is abyssmal.

[yendi]

I like Boondocks, but agreed about the rest of the recent AS stuff (talking about the homegrown stuff, not anime). Other than Boondocks and Robot Chicken, all of the post-Venture Brothers content has basically blown.

And why they feel the need to rerun the John Kricfalusi piece of shit interpretation of Yogi and Boo Boo to death, I've got no idea.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

The RIAA is so full crap.

Was Clancy bearded or clean shaving? Trying to see if the standard Clancy rules apply.

I keep trying to get the guy who runs my LARP to make Clancy come back and play. He used to show up occasionally, before my time.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Another celebrity gamer? No kidding. Wow.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Clancy Brown, Bruce A. Young and Billy Campbell all used to write/act/produce http://www.the-dungeonmaster.com

Been awhile since Clancy played though.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

That is... wow. Really cool and weird.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Heh.

It is more funny and weird.

Basically a minimalist LARP/D&D comedy/improv/adventure show.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I wanted to hug Lost last night and give it all sorts of little kisses. Things are ramping up now, big time.

[yendi]

And yet they insist on re-airing the pilot during Sweeps next week. Grr.

[litch.livejournal.com]

But where the hell did he find the acid?

[yendi]

I'm assuming you mean House? I dunno.

[jmfunnyface.livejournal.com]

I particularly loved Drawn Together last night because my boyfriend's name is Craig. I kept looking at him and asking, "Is there something you want to tell me?"

[yendi]

Heh. That was one of the funnier bits, anyway.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

"The RIAA is claiming that ripping CDs to play on your iPod or other MP3 player is not legal (in spite of having admitted otherwise in court in the past). Every time they pull crap like this, I find myself less inclined to buy CDs at all."
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Screw them. Tho i've yet to make full direct backup copies
of my rarer cds, i do make WMA's (changing that to MP3 now
that i have WMP-10) of my fav music from my fav cds to play
on my PPC.

And when i remake 160-180kbps mp3's of my fav neogoth cuts
i'm going to figure out how to add a indirect page to my homepage so a few friends can hear them too.

That said, i still buy cds of groups i like and rare classics (shrug)
For example, i just won the DCC gold cd of Highway 61 Revisited
by Bob Dylan at the same price it came out in Hvd Sq in 92 :)

[brak55.livejournal.com]

The RIAA is running scared since even legal downloading is booming and they probably don't have as much "control" over it.

I am one of the few old-timers who have very little love for the iTunes/MP3 boom. It may be convenient but the permanence just isn't there. These are copies of the things you buy on a magnetic medium (iPod, hard drive) which can too easily be destroyed. Even those that are "burned" to CD may only have a lifespan of 5 to 20 years, much shorter than a manufactured CD. I think a lot of people are going to be very dispointed when favorite music starts going away on their chosen medium in the future and they don't have backups.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Thankfully I'm catching up on old Veronica Mars episodes and I just bought season 1 on DVD so I can now learn why I'm so friggin confused by the show - season 1 episodes mixed into the reruns. So one episode has Logan and Veronica fighting. Another one they are making out. Veronica and Duncan might be brotehr and sister. Next thing you know they are packing Duncan off over the border. Harry Hamlin is getting stabbed in one episode and in jail the next one (thankfully I looked on TWOP about the last show of last season so I knew that he was the killer)

Now I need to buy a DVD player because my damn laptop is still in the shop.