Herbivore Magazine editor Josh Hooten will be in town tonight for an Herbivore Magazine Release Party at Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe. The fun starts at 6pm October 8th and I hear a rumor that there’ll be nummy vegan treats there. Also, a portion of sales all day will go to Good Mews so you can load up on goodies and help kitties. Yay!
NBC has let me down
This week, I had things to do Monday and Thursday night so I missed Heroes and The Office. I thought, no problem, I’ll just watch them online at nbc.com. I did that regularly last season with Heroes. Oh yeah, I have no VCR or DVR. And I’ve figured out it makes no sense to get one until I get a new TV and possibly commit to cable. And I’m not ready for that sort of outlay.
Well, their new player is unwatchable for me. Stop, start, stop, start, and so on. What the hell? Why did they mess up something that worked great before? I don’t mind the commercials. I figure it’s the price I pay for not having Tivo or my own recording device. But I do mind it being unwatchable.
Then I remembered I had TVShows. It’s an app that automatically downloads tv shows for you. You just subscribe to the ones you want, it automatically grabs the new episodes as they come out and downloads them for you via bittorrent. It kind of takes forever, which is the nature of bittorrent, but I cranked it up last night, went to bed, and woke up to the missed eps of Heroes and The Office. Yay!
Oh yeah, this is a Mac OS X app. There is probably something similar for Windows, but I just don’t care.
links for 2007-10-05
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i just suggested we put this on a page encouraging people to get prostate exams. do you think they’ll go for it?
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wait, a group backed by the seafood industry, who makes money selling fish, says teh babies will suffer if moms don’t eat fish. and this is being reported as fucking NEWS??? wtf is wrong with our media?
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gee, where in this story does it say that the group advocating eating more fish is backed by the seafood industry…oh, that’s right, nowhere. and you have to make it to the bottom of page 2 to get a flax seed mention as a source of omega3s.
links for 2007-10-03
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even if this woman didn’t do it, SOMEONE did. wtf is wrong with this state.
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let’s just flay this guy and dunk him repeatedly in salt water. yes, another atlanta metro area animal cruelty case.
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more animals suffering in the atlanta metro area
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actually kind of interesting explanation of the whole “nucular” pronunciation thing
links for 2007-10-02
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can i have a baby warthog?