(There's a bazillion hours of television content out there, very little of which is original, by the way, but you can only consume it one second at a time, like spoonfuls from an ocean. If you watched TV every second for the rest of your life, if everyone did, we'd all only consume of fraction of what's available. And yet, ten years from now, you may have a craving for that long-forgotten episode of "Diff'rent Strokes"... but it's not available. In the end, if media companies continue to run the TV business as usual, they're going to lose. Dinosaurs, they are. I think I'm starting to understand. Like Long Tail's Chris Anderson says, "Bottom line: TV is begging to be reinvented." )

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Bush Family Sign
(The Presurfer blog)
Presurfer sez: "Recently I came across some pictures of the presidential Bush family. It struck me they all showed the same sign. What is that? Do they have a secret sign and what does it mean?"

(Either it's the "Hook Em Horns" sign from the University of Texas -- but Dubya didn't attend UT, did he? -- I know, I know, with his clumsy speaking manner, it's hard to imagine him having attended any kind of serious school, yet miraculously, he's got a Harvard MBA -- there's hope for mediocre students everywhere; you don't need Affirmative Action, just some father who can pull a few strings, make a few calls. If not the UT hand sign, or some weird kismet with Ozzy Osbourne, then it's some cryptic but brazen homage to whichever satanic deity the family sold its soul to, in return for inexplicable global power being granted to such an unaccomplished "leader." Given the direction that things are headed, I think it's the latter. We'll be landing in the first ring of Hell shortly, please return your seats to their full, upright position )

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