So more and more TV Networks are coming online where you can watch full episodes of the current TV series in your browser. Of course the quality isn’t that great and it’s basically has as many ads or even more than your regular TV broadcast. Also unfortunately, all of these videos can only be played on IE.
Two new ones that just joined the rank include:
FOX on demand – A MySpace page!?!? What are they smoking. I guess FOX does own MySpace. Current series you can watch include: Prison Break, ’til Death, BONES, the Loop, Justice, Standoff, Vanished, and Talkshow with Spike Feresten. There are 2 viewing sizes: 543×302 and 1037×592, the latter seems to be just a direct blow up of the former.
NBC Rewind – This is a somewhat different system where you’re only allowed to watch the latest episode. Guess it’s only for those who missed the showing of that week. Not sure if that’s a smart move or not, but it somewhat limits newcomers to start watching the series, but it does mean that you can just wait and queue up to watch the entire season. Current series you can watch include: 30 Rock, Twenty Good Years, Friday Night Lights, Heroes, Studio 60, Kidnapped, The Office, The Biggest Loser, My Name is Earl, and ER. The view size is about 599×342.
Random Crap:
Real Pizza Delivery Stories (from Deadlock) – hilarious accumulation of stories from pizza delivery guys from all over America. Includes sex, robberies, tipping, and all the other good stuff you’d expect from TV.
Sports fan names newborn son ESPN – Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he’d get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. … Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network’s 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Fox and Clinton (from FuzzyWuzzy) – Olbermann rips Fox News a sorely needed reality check after Fox ambushed Bill Clinton. Quite an interesting news report by Keith Olbermann, though it’s really nothing that I haven’t come to realize.
Dropout makes big bucks playing games – When 18-year-old Tom Taylor dropped out of high school because he wanted to play more video games, most people were skeptical. Now he’s known as Tsquared on the gaming circuit. He’s earning six figures and has product endorsements and a video game tutoring business. … Six months after he started gaming full time, he signed his $250,000 contract. He also got a publicist, a financial adviser and media training.
Fertile women dress to impress -study – Women dress to impress when they are at their most fertile, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study they say shows that signs of human ovulation may not be as mysterious as some scientists believe. I remember reading a study of having men smell worned woman’s clothing and rate the smell as being attractive or not attractive, and clothes worn by woman during their periods were rated as more attractive.
German motorist obeys sat-nav system, hits sand – An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system ignored a motorway “closed for construction” sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road, police said on Monday.
Police officer in Argentina suspended for cheering – An Argentine police officer has been suspended for 10 days without pay for cheering a goal while on duty at a football match and sparking violent protests by fans. I can understand the pelting of foods, but is it legal to suspend an officer because he was cheering on duty? Then again, this is Argentina.
Rejected Wii Games (from Digg) – The upcoming Nintendo Wii will use a revolutionary new controller which won’t be used for any of the following. Pretty funny compilation of boring game concepts with the Wiimote.
The Claim: A Plane’s Back Row Is the Safest Place to Sit (from Digg) – I’ve also been told that the back of the plane was the safest section to sit, but the front was generally a smoother ride. THE BOTTOM LINE There is no evidence that flying in the back of a plane is any safer than sitting up front.
I’ve posted several magic videos of Cyril Takayama before, but here’s a bunch more of his videos: Japanese Magician Takayama. I was going to list them all out, but there were just too many.
An Elephant Crackup? (from Digg) – Since the early 1990’s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses; this abnormal behavior, according to a 2001 study in the journal Pachyderm, has been reported in ‘‘a number of reserves’’ in the region.
Chef makes wedding gown with cream puffs – The dress — made of 1,500 cream puffs and weighing 20 pounds — took the 28-year-old baker two months to make, and by the end of the wedding reception, bride Viktoriya said she didn’t want to take it off.
Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants – Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy — almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet (three metre) high marijuana plants. … “We tried burning them with white phosphorous — it didn’t work. We tried burning them with diesel — it didn’t work. The plants are so full of water right now … that we simply couldn’t burn them,” he said. Even successful incineration had its drawbacks. “A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action,” Hillier said dryly. Haha. These Taliban guys are smart. Who knew if you tried to burn a forest of marijuana plants, you’d get high *cough* I mean sick.
Disney says “non” to Mouse orgy – The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday said it took “appropriate action” against employees at its Paris theme park who were caught simulating sex while dressed as Disney characters in a digital video that has received wide attention on the Internet. The video shows Minnie Mouse struggling to free herself as she is grabbed from behind by Goofy and then a giant snowman. Later, Mickey Mouse simulates sex with the snowman and Goofy does the same with either Chip or Dale, the chipmunks, as laughter is heard on the tape. The tape is described on the Internet as the “Mouse Orgy.“ You can see the video here: L’orgie de Mickey (NOT WORK SAFE!)
Classroom trash can used as toilet – A fifth-grade teacher allowed five students — a boy and four girls — to use a trash can as a toilet during a school lockdown drill when no one was supposed to leave the classroom.