John E. Bredehoft

Her covers cd is really good - Michael W. May

From the Meat Loaf radio station. Wonder what "Bob Dylan sings Jim Steinman" would sound like. - John E. Bredehoft

This calls for the literal version: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Michael W. May

That thought crossed my mind as I was listening to the song. - John E. Bredehoft

The AP reporters "bought a copy, ripped it from its spine and scanned it into the system so it could be read and electronically searched. A NewsNow moved within 40 minutes, followed quickly by multiple leads as details were gleaned from the 413-page manuscript." - John E. Bredehoft

"I am not anti-advertising. I am pro relevancy." - John E. Bredehoft

"The teens have said they were imitating a rap from a popular YouTube video, which begins: "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce." Spenser Dauwalder, 18, has said employees at the fast-food restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave. But Dauwalder said no one else was in line. He and his three 17-year-old friends left without buying anything. A manager wrote down the car's license plate number and called authorities, police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow has said." - John E. Bredehoft

"ProLogis announced late Tuesday that it would begin construction in December on a warehouse at the southwest corner of Etiwanda Avenue and Fourth Street in Ontario within its Crossroads Business Park, a 281.7-acre master-planned project near the interstates 10 and 15 intersection. ProLogis declined to identify who would occupy the 667,000-square-foot facility, but documents filed by the developer with the city's planning department show the occupant will be Home Depot." - John E. Bredehoft

"Further proof this week, if any were needed, that Stairway to Heaven is musical cancer, comes from Led Zeppelin biographer Charles R Cross. He has posited the theory that the eight-minute opus has become one of the most broadcast songs in history because radio DJs use its length as an excuse to nip out for a crafty fag." - John E. Bredehoft

" * The show made $50 million a year for CBS, which syndicated the program. CBS would rather have that money than not, but losing it will amount to a “rounding error” in 2012. * The show was a big ratings hit for local TV stations, but they paid a lot for it–upward of $200,000 a week in big markets. That made it a loss-leader for most broadcasters, Meltz says. * And yes, the show provided a big lead-in audience to local TV news broadcasts, particularly in top ABC markets. But given that it’s not going to end up on a rival broadcast channel, “it is conceivable that station audience/ad share won’t change much for the day-part.”" - John E. Bredehoft

"She is expected to concentrate on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a cable channel that will bear her name and have its premiere in January 2011. But she did not mention that channel on Friday. “So why walk away and make next season the last? Here is the real reason,” she said, staring into the camera. “I love this show. This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it’s time to say goodbye. Twenty-five years feels right in my bones, and it feels right in my spirit. It’s the perfect number, the exact right time.”" - John E. Bredehoft

"The list of repercussions of her decision is long. For CBS, the owner of syndication rights to her show, it means the loss of its signature program and millions of dollars every year in revenue. For ABC stations, where her show was largely seen, it means the loss of daytime’s most popular program, a generator of giant audiences leading into evening news programs." - John E. Bredehoft

"The Times' Marc Lifsher reports that one faction -- the LCD TV Assn. -- was all smiles. The reason? LCD sets are less power-hungry than plasma TVs. In other words, as so often happens when the government regulates products, it favors one technology over another -- and manufacturers know it, even if the regulators insist otherwise. One other interesting sidelight: Seth Greenstein, outside counsel for the CEA, said the rules would bar many hotels and hospitals from buying televisions because such centrally controlled sets can't meet the new limits on power consumption when they're turned off. Philips Electronics warned the commission about this issue, to no apparent avail." - John E. Bredehoft

...and the bad. - John E. Bredehoft

"The five energy commissioners voted unanimously to require television manufacturers to produce new models that use 33 percent less electricity by 2011 and 49 percent less electricity by 2013. In recent years, televisions have become one of the home’s biggest energy hogs as ever-larger flat-screen models have proliferated. Energy commission staff estimate that televisions and various set-top boxes now account for about 10 percent of residential electricity consumption in California, up from 3 to 4 percent in the 1990s. Without imposing standards, as California has done for a number of other home appliances, electricity use by televisions could jump to as much as 18 percent by 2023, according to the commission." - John E. Bredehoft

The good... - John E. Bredehoft

Great 4am driving song, if I remember correctly :) - Michael W. May

"The Web is full of chatter about yesterday’s game, but video is hard to come by. Again, this appears to be a case of Google’s (GOOG) YouTube flexing its ContentID system on behalf of copyright owners, in this case the European sports marketing company Sportfive. This is a theoretical victory for content creators, who want to be able to control how and where their stuff appears on the Web. But since there doesn’t seem to be an approved video, it’s not really a solution. If it’s a story that’s attracting most of the world’s attention, someone’s going to find it, somewhere." - John E. Bredehoft

"The thing is, it’s not just Fox. As I’ve mentioned perhaps too many times, I’ve long since drifted away from watching television news on a regular basis, finding the Internet a much more efficient and less aggravating means of getting information. But I catch news shows from time-to-time, usually while traveling or because someone else has the television on. And everything from “Good Morning America” to the nightly network news promos to local news radio is in the same hype mode. It’s all crisis this, emergency that, and tragedy the other. It’s like Jerry Springer is suddenly in charge of all news programming." - John E. Bredehoft

"One of the keys to Chromium OS' success likely will be how much users can actually do with it, given that it won't be using much of the software in common use now. To that end, Pichai announced that, as of today, the company was making the system's computer code public so that outside developers could start making applications for it." - John E. Bredehoft

"In the new method, forwarding a link through Twitter is error-free, no noise is added because it can't, and the lineage is carried as metadata, and doesn't take up any of the 140 characters." - John E. Bredehoft

"We perceive that we don't have accents, but we do. During his 1976 campaign for President, Jimmy Carter was appearing at a southern campaign stop, and told the crowd that it would be nice to have a President without an accent..." - John E. Bredehoft

"Ironically, even though the European McDonalds restaurants offer the healthier fare, the New York Times reported that "French fries and cheeseburgers remain the best sellers on the menu." This aligns with something that I remember reading some time ago, that noted that the mere presence of healthy items on the menu makes people feel healthier...but they still tend to go for the non-healthy stuff. It stands to reason - Mom takes the kid to McDonalds because you can get applesauce or whatever with the kid meal, and then the kid throws a tantrum until the meal includes fries instead. Another interesting thing mentioned in the Times article was iPod rentals. I'm trying to imagine what a McPod would be like..." - John E. Bredehoft

"This is lousy news for employees, who are faced with a “jump now or wait to be pushed” decision, but it is designed to cheer investors: AOL says the cuts will drop its annual operating expenses by $300 million." - John E. Bredehoft