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‘Cause their online video player sucks—big time. Perhaps they intended the interface and usability to be bulky and counter-intuitive. Or maybe they’ve just never actually seen Hulu to get an idea of how it should work. Some reasons why ABC’s player stinks:
- It requires a special plugin. It doesn’t just run on Flash, like Hulu.
- Much of the time the “player is unavailable” for no apparent reason. Other than from intentional removal, I’ve never had a video on Hulu not play.
- The ads are ridiculous. If you’re watching a show in full-screen and it breaks for an ad, ABC auto-toggles your browser out of full-screen to view the ad.
- During ads, ABC gives you a 30-sec countdown that runs with a blank screen for at least half the time. Then the ad starts, but you are allowed to click “continue” before the ad finishes because the 30 seconds are up. I’m sure ABC’s sponsors are excited that viewers have the option of catching only 75% of their commercials.
- Once, in the middle of a show, it started lagging and then I got an error that said something unexpected occurred and could not continue. So I clicked “okay” and guess what? It continued.
When I suddenly realized last night that we had a LOST episode to catch up on, my wife said, “Oh yeah! I knew there was a show we were forgetting” (besides Fringe and 24). The reason we forgot about LOST? It’s not on Hulu like everything else we watch.
Ditto. Every word.
Ha. I don’t think this counts as a spoiler even for people who haven’t seen last night’s episode yet. Via sds natface mayonegg.
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muppetpants:
SMB2 theme in the style of Django.
That would be Super Mario Brothers 2, for the non-nerds.
Whatever it is, it’s great.
“I’m not an Obama fan, particularly, but a lot of people I like and respect are. To treat Obama as something evil or subhuman would not only be disrespectful toward Obama, but toward them. Instead, I hope that if Obama is elected, their assessment of his strengths will turn out to be right, and mine will turn out to be wrong. Likewise, those who don’t like John McCain or Sarah Palin might reflect that by treating Palin and McCain as obviously evil and stupid, they’re disrespecting tens of millions of their fellow Americans who feel otherwise. And treating a presidency held by a guy you don’t like as presumptively illegitimate suggests that presidents rule not by election, but by divine right, so that whenever the “other guy” wins, he’s automatically a usurper. We don’t have to agree on issues, or on leaders. But if we can’t agree that a free and fair election can produce a legitimate president even when it’s not the candidate we like, then we’ve got a very serious problem.”
“There are about 1,460 days until the next Presidential election, and I assume that I will spend approximately the next 1,459 of them opposing Barack Obama. But I’m spending today proud abut what my country has overcome.”
“In “The Coming Economic Earthquake” (1991), Burkett delineated growing federal deficits and the ever increasing use of debt by business and households out of control. Burkett points out those severe economic times will appear sometime shortly after the millennium unless current polices are changed. Burkett believed that Keynesian economic policies, with ideals for continuing federal deficits and the implicit preference for higher levels of consumption, reduced saving, and a larger role for government in the economy are a means to disaster. As Burkett states in the book that as interest on the debt consumes a larger and larger portion of the yearly federal budget, and more money is borrowed each year to pay the interest on what was borrowed in previous years, there will be a temptation to “monetize” the debt at an increasing rate leading to a calamity not seen since the Great Depression. Burkett questioned whether or not elected leaders would take action in time to prevent fiscal chaos, and believed they would not.”
“O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all care, thou are the object of desire to the scholar. This is the beverage of the friends of God.”
“So often in my literature classes students told me what they “felt” about a novel, or a particular character in a novel. I tried, ever so gently, to tell them that no one cared what they felt; the trick was to discover not one’s feelings but what the author had put into the book, its moral weight and its resultant power. In essay courses, many of these same students turned in papers upon which I wished to—but did not—write: “D-, Too much love in the home.” I knew where they came by their sense of their own deep significance and that this sense was utterly false to any conceivable reality. Despite what their parents had been telling them from the very outset of their lives, they were not significant. Significance has to be earned, and it is earned only through achievement. Besides, one of the first things that people who really are significant seem to know is that, in the grander scheme, they are themselves really quite insignificant.”
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artistspaid:
kingofspills:
“Amazing Grace” by Victor Wooten (via jeffro887)
In case you forgot what “beautiful music” means.
This is impressive, especially since he plays a lot of it using harmonics.
That is some impressive work on a base guitar.
sds:
I spent the first 12 years of my life at camp. I miss the campfire atmosphere. Great pic.
I spent the second 10+ years of my life at camp. I miss (almost) all of it.
(via ajamison via whatson via
scout)
sds:
- It was unfortunate when that Chinese gymnast made a mistake in her routine; now her dad will probably lose his left hand.
I wish I knew how much of a joke this was/wasn’t. I mean, really? Or just sorta/figuratively?
- If NBC had the guts to slip in a few comments about the big elephant in the room—China’s abysmal human rights record—my respect for them would skyrocket.
They actually did this during Bob’s interview with Bush last night.
“A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
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