I’m experimenting posting my own Friendfeed on this site. Scroll down to the bottom of the navigation if you want to check out my own contributions. All my blog posts, photos, videos, etc. will appear there in a chronological order from most recent to oldest.
I don’t have many Friendfeed friends as yet. There’s no telling whether this service will survive. Facebook could easily swallow this and the other social networkds over the coming years.
I love the service and recommend it to one and all.
They fund it in a number of ways, one of which is including Google ads occasionally on some posts. After tens of thousands of page views, I finally saw one of mine with ads:
The best free and legal site for movies and TV shows is Hulu.com, a joint venture of NBC Universal and Fox (News Corp). Yes, the same companies hounding people for illegal file sharing.
They are trying Hulu as one way to move to the digital future.
In the USA, Hulu works very well. But outside the States, you need something on your computer that cloaks your actual location. I use Hotspot Shield.
It works perfectly.
Hulu.com has a small but growing play list. (Including the Daily Show.)
… today we’re launching voice and video chat — right inside Gmail. We’ve tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video — all for free.
… This is obviously a big jab at Skype. With VoIP and video chat functionality in Gmail’s familiar surroundings, many users will feel less need to ever use Skype. Sure, Skype’s client has a ton more options than Gmail’s simple video chat, but many users will prefer Gmail for precisely that reason. …
Crichton died unexpectedly Tuesday “after a courageous and private battle against cancer,” the release said. …
Crichton, a medical doctor, was attracted to cautionary science tales.
“Jurassic Park” — perhaps his best-known work — concerned capturing the DNA of dinosaurs and bringing them to life on a modern island, where they soon run amok; “The Andromeda Strain,” his first major fiction success, involves an alien microorganism that’s studied in a special military compound after causing death in a nearby community.
Crichton also invited controversy with some of his scientific views. He was an avowed skeptic of global climate change, giving lectures warning against “consensus science.”
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Though most of Crichton’s books were major best-sellers involving science, he could ruffle feathers when he took on social issues. “Rising Sun” (1992) came out during a time when Americans feared Japanese ascendance, particularly when it came to technology. “Disclosure” (1994) was about a sexual harassment case. ..
Crichton was married five times and had one child.
I read most of his books and admired his craft. He was a doom and gloom pessimist, though, always finding the global catastrophe in every new technology.
It’s hard to choose a favourite book or movie.
Perhaps Westworld had more effect on me than any other.
Billed as Newfoundland’s Cultural Magazine, The Great Eastern was an hour long summer replacement show on CBC Radio One for the first two seasons, and then became a half hour regular show for the next three seasons.
Rockin’Downtown Rocktown Ronnie sent me a CD of the 1994 to 1999 broadcasts as MP3 files.
Fantastic.
I’ve just finished Season 1 and am enjoying it immensely. It’s as smart and sophisticated as The Daily Show, Colbert or Rick Mercer.
Paul Moth
It’s a spoof of all lame, self-important local radio affiliates everywhere, propped up by tax dollars.
Paul Moth, the radio host, kept a blog during the production of The Great Eastern, it seems.
Happily, a fan named Gerry Porter maintains a website dedicated to the Great Eastern which includes a full archive of the shows. Episode 1, series 1 starts here if you want to check it out.
CBC Radio is too slow, fat and thick to make those classic broadcasts available on their own site. (Someone should parody that company.)
In 2004, the character of Paul Moth was put in a new CBC show called Sunny Days and Nights. Fired from the BCN, Moth gets a temporary job with fictonal CBC affiliate CBNR in the “cottage country” region of Ontario. … The series ran for only one summer.
Rick McCharles 
