The rough and tumble, cigarette smokin’, hard-living Captain Phil Harris of the good ship Cornelia Marie died yesterday at the age of 53. A fan favorite of the hit Discovery Channel Show Deadliest Catch, Phil Harris will be sorely missed. He is survived by his two sons, who always fished alongside him. Goodbye, Captain Harris. May all your crab pots be full of the best king crabs up in that great sea in the sky….
WalletPop, a fun consumer website checking out the latest in consumables, doesn’t see much hope in Blockbuster’s latest and sadly desperate attempt to stay relevant. In the face of the flexibility and selection of NetFlix and cable companies, Blockbuster is trying to take on Redbox, a self-serve kiosk where you help yourself to DVDs for a dollar. But tech consumer writer Jason Cochran shows just how poorly designed this new machine is.
5 fatal flaws in Blockbuster’s new $1 rental machines (WalletPop.com)
The Onion’s hilarious video lampooning Blockbuster Video reveals how irrelevant the once dominant video store has become.
Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
According to the Hollywood Reporter, YouTube is launching a new channel where “citizen journalists” can post their videos and online news editors can use them in their coverage.
This basically means that anyone with a camera or phone can now be a part of major news coverage.
Editors can even request videos of a certain subject matter with the new YouTube Direct. Of course, the primary aim is celebrity coverage or bizarre behavior.
Sites already testing it include Huffington Post, NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle. And since no news show or online entity can exist today without video, it will be interesting to track the success of this new YouTube feature .
Read more about it here.
It used to be that not getting invited to the coolest party was the deepest shun one could experience. But things have changed.
Now that a good chunk of modern socializing is done online, it’s the dreaded “unfriend” that people fear most. Such as, “I had to unfriend him after that date.”
It’s the equivalent of breaking up with someone in the Facebook or other social media worlds.
The official definition is: “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site, such as Facebook.”
So dreaded, in fact, that the New Oxford American Dictionary has named “unfriend” the 2009 Word of the Year.
The announcement was made on the Oxford University blog, where they also list other words that almost made the cut.
An interesting article on HowStuffWorks.com explores the scenario of the world ending in the upcoming movie “2012.”
Since the dawn of time, there have been countless predictions of how and when the world will end. Some are based on historical myths and others just paranoia.
The article notes several theories, such as the belief that another ice age will finish us off, or that eventually the sun will become too large, consuming the Earth. Remember Y2K?
The film “2012,” which comes out this Friday, Nov. 13, explores what might happen if an ancient Mayan prediction of the world ending on Dec. 12, 2012 came true.
The prophecy stems from the fact that the Mayan calendar ends on this day.
While the movie is a blockbuster with enormously impressive special effects sequences (as seen from the trailer) that may seem incredibly unrealistic to some, it still leaves you wondering, “What if?”
Watch the trailer:
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