tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57202852423729772842024-03-05T14:33:59.938-08:00BIC's BickeringsBIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-68611177263976187242012-05-22T18:48:00.002-07:002012-05-22T18:48:19.661-07:006,175,831<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bloomberg News introduced a Billionaires Index back in march in anticipation of
the Facebook IPO and general interest in Mark Zuckerberg being propelled into
the ranks of the world's wealthiest people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today's ranking of the
world's richest people</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-billionaires-index/">http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-billionaires-index/</a></span></span></div>
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I stumbled across this new resource looking for the rise and fall of net worth of
David Wetherell, former CEO of internet holding company CMGI. Investments (and
divestments for that matter) in companies such as AltaVista, uBid, Lycos and
Yahoo! During the “Dot Com” boom placed Mr. Wethrell in the Forbes 400</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://bit.ly/JCD1US">http://bit.ly/JCD1US</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Look What Happened The Last
Time A Website Had A Real-Time CEO Wealth Meter”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-05/wall_street/31122698_1_cmgi-shares-david-wetherell-shares-plunge">http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-05/wall_street/31122698_1_cmgi-shares-david-wetherell-shares-plunge</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is interesting to see
what was and what could have been. One company that could have been the
leader in Social Networking today was SixDegrees.com. SixDegrees was a pioneer
that was ahead of its time. It failed to make traction because broadband
internet which would allow photographs (headshots etc) to render quickly on a
browser was not yet mainstream. </span></span></div>
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“</i></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Inspired
by the theory of six degrees of separation, sixdegrees is your personal on-line
community where you have the ability to interact, communicate and share
information and experiences with millions of other members from around the
world, all of whom are connected to you.”</span></i></span></div>
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Machine has captured images </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;">1998
SnapShot <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19980416101322/http:/sixdegrees.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/19980416101322/http://sixdegrees.com/</a><br />
1999 SnapShot <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19991116034501/http:/www.sixdegrees.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/19991116034501/http://www.sixdegrees.com/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The SixDegrees patent,
patent # 6,175,831 was filed back in Jan 17, 1997 and granted by the U.S.
Patent Office back on Jan 16, 2001</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“A networking database
containing a plurality of records for different individuals in which
individuals are connected to one another in the database by defined
relationships. Each individual has the opportunity to define the relationship
which may be confirmed or denied. E-mail messaging and interactive communication
between individuals and a database service provider provide a method of
constructing the database. The method includes having a registered individual
identify further individuals and define therewith a relationship. The further
individuals then, in turn, establish their own defined relationships with still
other individuals. The defined relationships are mutually defined.”</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US6175831">http://www.google.com/patents/US6175831</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Bloomberg news is reporting that the Facebook
“</span></em><span class="tl"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">IPO Makes Zuckerberg </span></i></span><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Richer</span></em><span class="tl"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> Than </span></i></span><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Google</span></em><span class="tl"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> Founders”</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/facebook-ipo-makes-zuckerberg-richer-than-google-founders.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/facebook-ipo-makes-zuckerberg-richer-than-google-founders.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On the subject of Google
there was a little known company Links2Go founded in 1994 (a.k.a </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Continuum, a.k.a TopicalNet) </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19991104115723/http:/www.links2go.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/19991104115723/http://www.links2go.com/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">which used
a technology strikingly similar to Google’s PageRank (“Backrub”) <a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/%7Ebackrub/google.html">http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html</a></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span> </span>“</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Links2Go test site was well received because it had the
ability to automatically organize web content and to provide end users with
highly relevant links pertaining to the topic of their query.” </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.atp.nist.gov/eao/sp950-3/tropicalnet-2.htm">http://www.atp.nist.gov/eao/sp950-3/tropicalnet-2.htm</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And wasn’t ashamed to let
websites<span> </span>know they made the top of their
Search Engine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">During
the course of our analysis, we<span> </span>identify
which links are most representative of each of the thousands of topics in <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: black;">L</span></span></span></span>inks2Go,<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> based on how actual
page authors, like yourself, index and organize links on their pages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://bit.ly/JlzUCN">http://bit.ly/JlzUCN</a> (November 1998)</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“The Google search engine
has two important features that help it produce high precision results. First,
it makes use of the link structure of the Web to calculate a quality ranking
for each web page. This ranking is called PageRank ... Second, Google utilizes
link to improve search results.”</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/%7Ebackrub/google.html">http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">With a bit of nostalgia in
the air I recall back in the day when there those that claimed they owned an
“Internet Patent” also known as the “Freeny patent” which covered most if not all
downloadable content over the web… essentially patenting the entire
internet.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“In 1983, in 36 pages of
painstaking detail, inventor Charles C. Freeny Jr. sketched out his idea for a
network of ``information manufacturing machines'' that could swap encrypted
digital information over phone lines. The language of the patent defines this
information as the content of ``tapes, videodisks, handheld calculators,
handheld electronic games, greeting cards, maps, and sheet music,'' and it also
specifies digital payment schemes.”</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/1996/31/b348688.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/1996/31/b348688.htm</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
“"System for Reproducing Information in Material Objects at a Point of
Sale Location," U.S. Patent 4,528,643 was invented by Charles C. Freeny,
Jr<span> </span>and granted by the Patent office in
1985 <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US4528643">http://www.google.com/patents/US4528643</a></span></span></div>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-80124087745341606302012-04-30T13:17:00.002-07:002012-04-30T13:19:01.328-07:00Update: THQ a.k.a THQI stock trade Marvel / Disney ConnectionJust want to alert that I have been updating the original post<br />
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-63051080107497339052012-04-24T18:10:00.002-07:002012-04-24T18:13:37.087-07:00Planetary Resources Inc., Moon & Donnie DarkoThe Planetary Resources Inc. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYYPN0BdBw">Announcement today
</a> had me thinking about ..well ...what else ...space and time in movies.
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I re-watched Donnie Darko Recently and realized that the trampoline symbolizes a black hole. It is round and black like a black hole and the people jumping on the trampoline symbolize the chaos and distortion that surround a black hole. There are some that theorize that a black hol could be used as a wormhole for time travel and Donnie Darko is a Time Traveller movie with even our friend Steven Hawking's Book "A Brief History of Time" making an appearance in the film.
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Another great Movie is Duncan' Jones' <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/">Moon</a> It is about "Sam Bell" who "has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems."<BR><P>
Sam Bell's name is no accident and his initials S.B. are code for a Spiral Barred Galaxy. "Edwin Hubble classified these types of spiral galaxies as "SB" (spiral, barred) in his Hubble sequence, and arranged them into three sub-categories based on how open the arms of the spiral are." .....The current hypothesis is that the bar structure acts as a type of stellar nursery, fueling star birth at their centers. The bar is thought to act as a mechanism that channels gas inwards from the spiral arms through orbital resonance, in effect funneling the flow to create new stars.
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We learn in the movie that the station on the moon is in fact a nursery of sorts (i'm trying not to give a spoiler here).BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-73829733859434870592012-04-22T20:01:00.002-07:002012-05-06T13:04:38.131-07:00This post has been repurposed by the author<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post has been repurposed by the author 5/6/12<br />BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-17829211173101381982012-04-17T19:09:00.015-07:002012-04-18T18:51:56.537-07:00THQ, Marvel (o.k. Columbia Pictures) and The Mysterious Lumber Liquidators<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixUhqOO-_k8Zl7Tisw9afr9QgU0bOv5g2ETRBxwjQYgL0g1ilPQqwAoytegNsTdr3BTDBiDcUR-hsWYrKwPu-6VGByqC6FaBsqDoKnAMJuamvsbWCw8M40O6fVvWNd-9WAcHSqbRF18Qs/s1600/Fake+Boobs.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixUhqOO-_k8Zl7Tisw9afr9QgU0bOv5g2ETRBxwjQYgL0g1ilPQqwAoytegNsTdr3BTDBiDcUR-hsWYrKwPu-6VGByqC6FaBsqDoKnAMJuamvsbWCw8M40O6fVvWNd-9WAcHSqbRF18Qs/s400/Fake+Boobs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732567943879079682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Apologies and Credit to <a href="http://www.fark.com/users/Rain-Monkey">Rain Monkey</a> on <a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6977747/This-is-a-fake-thread-Please-post-fake-things-in-it">Fark</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsFjTgu2r-VozivHeE9fbd8_Fv8RaQD8UKWTSLeJMEY7WeMuz19vmpIfxEoVYkXys3ETAqy7yAGyh8h_H0MUGuv2NTnYpUiJu9ARvl-8Km00ajO0ta-7Q5OIn1Jcium_-8zAouW_nHPk/s1600/amazing-spider-man-subway-dance.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsFjTgu2r-VozivHeE9fbd8_Fv8RaQD8UKWTSLeJMEY7WeMuz19vmpIfxEoVYkXys3ETAqy7yAGyh8h_H0MUGuv2NTnYpUiJu9ARvl-8Km00ajO0ta-7Q5OIn1Jcium_-8zAouW_nHPk/s400/amazing-spider-man-subway-dance.jpg" com="" img="" gif="" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732557616154583394" border="0" /></a><br /></div>SOURCE: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/theamazingspiderman">http://www.facebook.com/theamazingspiderman</a><br /><br />The Advertisements placed in the Ad Card Slots in this Subway Car are Fake. Or should we say that the ads are actually engineered specifically for this Spiderman movie. Notice the Yellow ad in the Middle is for "Lumber Liquidators." An ad for Lumber makes absolutely no sense if it is targeting NYC commuters who live in apartment buildings.... but as mentioned, these ads are not genuine subway ads but actually product placement...<br /><br />Here are some interesting tidbits:<br /><br /><br />On the <a href="http://people.forbes.com/profile/jeffrey-w-griffiths/50263">Board of Directors of THQ</a> sits the ex <a href="http://ir.lumberliquidators.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=211769&p=irol-newsArticle_Print&ID=1633963&highlight=">Chief Executive Officer of Lumber Liquidators.</a> You might be asking yourself right now what the heck a guy who sells lumber knows about video games??? But if you click the <a href="http://people.forbes.com/profile/jeffrey-w-griffiths/50263">link from Forbes</a> you will see that Mr. Jeffries used to run the Show at Electronics Boutique later known as EB Games, n<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB_Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifs">ow a subsidiary of Gamestop</a><br /><br />Both Lumber Liquidators and THQ use the same marketing product placement firm <a href="http://www.heropp.com/index.htm">Hero </a><br /><br />"A Lumber Liquidators advertisement makes it into the publicity shot of Columbia Pictures upcoming event film "The Amazing Spiderman....Freedom fighters safeguard a Lumber Liquidators location in the demo of THQ's upcoming FPS game "Homefront."....The title character for "Chuck" wears a t-shirt with the title character for the "de Blob 2" video game...."<br /><a href="http://www.heropp.com/corporate/evidence.php">http://www.heropp.com/corporate/evidence.php</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heropp.com/production/clients.php?client_id=118&nop=0"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHwGyIbSk-QaOxQ-J8q2ciPOujOuG-2FDQ74CwaKn3cx8FBuLrHerIK9n2SwU1L8Zi8FtYQ_qYgkziaYazCITPbp6mrhylzUympYhqtg5G51YX4Ya58gXV58OhkrFLnUKHyAGkfDTIfQ/s1600/thq.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHwGyIbSk-QaOxQ-J8q2ciPOujOuG-2FDQ74CwaKn3cx8FBuLrHerIK9n2SwU1L8Zi8FtYQ_qYgkziaYazCITPbp6mrhylzUympYhqtg5G51YX4Ya58gXV58OhkrFLnUKHyAGkfDTIfQ/s400/thq.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732563381520124210" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.heropp.com/production/clients.php?client_id=118&nop=0">THQ on Hero</a><br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; texthttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif-alighttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 105px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhW57u8C1gbWvHv6qW11XTQouy1egYF51mQiyMcensw27DS8RLlVxLzgWcmtCkM9Cl_Mz5RnNwgd9ijf07Z2B3pYxv7ubl5AMw7jEFkImtebFo63oNLWDeI2HS9gAi4dCs0W1irYYRak/s400/lumber.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732564072125459794" border="0" /><br /><a href="http://www.heropp.com/production/clients.php?client_id=13&nop=0">Lumber Liquidators on Hero</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heropp.com/"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QP8OeSkDE9T4FC9gmsh_YmZErMTvm47zStV9NU9tWnjuo0hJkRwFaDX0ABm2XwpjgvAGxMyEgnXieaiZ3FPqVm96dOyGGyBORBKryQ-MqyAnpUUqYEDp_IvEY9qgeuaEGAZB9bxdRYI/s1600/index_04_01.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QP8OeSkDE9T4FC9gmsh_YmZErMTvm47zStV9NU9tWnjuo0hJkRwFaDX0ABm2XwpjgvAGxMyEgnXieaiZ3FPqVm96dOyGGyBORBKryQ-MqyAnpUUqYEDp_IvEY9qgeuaEGAZB9bxdRYI/s400/index_04_01.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732565970442891170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.heropp.com/"> Hero</a><br /></div>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-49662912753901881032012-04-08T13:25:00.019-07:002012-05-11T13:49:21.796-07:00THQ a.k.a THQI stock trade Marvel / Disney Connection<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apparently Marvel/Disney doesn't have the resources to develop Marvel Video Games in-house---otherwise why would they have outsourced the game to Ubisoft? With the licenses expiring the time is (was?) ripe for Marvel to develop games in-house. They could have bought THQ for pennies on the dollar. But It appears that Mickey Mouse is just plain Goofy.</span> <b><br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>UPDATE: 5/10/12<span class="entry-title"> Ubisoft creating ‘Avengers’ video game for Kinect, Wii U</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/ap-newsbreak-ubisoft-assembling-avengers-video-game-for-kinect-wii-u/2012/05/10/gIQA20ORFU_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/ap-newsbreak-ubisoft-assembling-avengers-video-game-for-kinect-wii-u/2012/05/10/gIQA20ORFU_story.html </a></span></span></b></span><br />
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<b>UPDATE 6: 5/6/2012: Forbes Again claims Disney Interactive to Produce Marvel Games </b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/05/06/what-disneys-200-million-marvels-the-avengers-opening-weekend-means-for-the-video-games/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/05/06/what-disneys-200-million-marvels-the-avengers-opening-weekend-means-for-the-video-games/</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow;">yet... Recently-registered domain name (avengersbattleforearth.com), has sparked speculation</span> <span style="background-color: yellow;">that the UbiSoft may publish the game!....</span></b><br />
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<b>Avengers: Battle for Earth domain points to Ubi tie-in</b><br />
<a href="http://www.computerandvideogames.com/346647/avengers-battle-for-earth-domain-points-to-ubi-tie-in/">http://www.computerandvideogames.com/346647/avengers-battle-for-earth-domain-points-to-ubi-tie-in/</a><br />
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To release this thing while Avengers is still burning hot, could UbiSoft <a href="http://www.ubi.com/">http://www.ubi.com</a> buy what has already been produced by THQ and code from there?---Could UbiSoft and THQ play nice together?<br />
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<b>Ubisoft talent poaching case Court rules in case sparked by THQ's hiring of former Assassin's Creed boss</b><br />
<a href="http://www.computerandvideogames.com/330124/thq-wins-ubisoft-talent-poaching-case/"><b>http://www.computerandvideogames.com/330124/thq-wins-ubisoft-talent-poaching-case/</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,San-Serif; font-size: x-small;">Check for yoursefl --- go to <a href="http://geektools.com/">geektools.com </a><br />and type in </span><b>avengersbattleforearth.com</b><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,San-Serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,San-Serif; font-size: x-small;">and you will see that</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,San-Serif; font-size: x-small;">Administrative Contact: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,San-Serif; font-size: x-small;"> Marvel Characters, Inc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,San-Serif; font-size: x-small;">Domain servers in listed order:
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nic1.ubisoft.com
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Although Avengers IP reverted back to Marvel, does THQ still own the code for the game they produced? <br />
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<b>UPDATE 5: </b>LOL. If you have a problem with a Marvel video game, please <a href="http://marvel.com/help/category/10">contact the product's manufacturer directly.</a><br />
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<span class="url"><b>UPDATE 4:</b> Sega, possibly to save themselves from losing Marvel License tried to acquire the old (Avengers) THQ Development Team </span><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/sega-australia-boss-shows-interest-in-acquiring-ex-thq-talent-do/">http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/sega-australia-boss-shows-interest-in-acquiring-ex-thq-talent-do/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vg247.com/2012/04/19/ex-thq-developers-form-indie-studio-three-phase-interactive/">Ex-THQ developers form indie studio Three Phase Interactive</a><br />
<a href="http://threephaseinteractive.com/">http://threephaseinteractive.com/</a><br />
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UPDATE 3:<span style="background-color: yellow;"> Marvel Games</span><span style="background-color: white;"> @ </span><span class="js-username"><span class="screen-name">MarvelBlip on Twitter</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Run by Marvel Studio</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">s</span>' own Chris Baker (<a class=" twitter-atreply pretty-link" data-screen-name="cbake76" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/cbake76" rel="nofollow">@<b>cbake76</b></a>), Eric Adams and Todd 'TQ' Jefferson. All Marvel games, all the time.<br />
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Manhattan Beach, CA
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<a href="http://marvel.com/blogs/Marvel_Interactive" rel="me nofollow" target="_blank">
http://marvel.com/blogs/Marvel_Interactive </a></span></div>
<span class="url"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/marvelblip">https://twitter.com/#!/marvelblip </a>
{Just trying to figure out an org chart here - so is Marvel or Disney
running the show for Marvel Video Games? Why isn't Disney Interactive
sending out Twitter Messages and Marvel Studios is?}---</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;">BTW "Sr. Games Manager at Marvel Entertainment" Eric Adams used to be a "Sr. Producer" at THQ. While at Marvel Eric </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">Supervised
the licensing side of production for THQ's Marvel Super Hero Squad
console games and was the lead on THQ's canceled Avengers game.</span><br />
<b>UPDATE 2: Disney Interactive lays off 200 as video game unit shifts focus (Article From 2011)</b><br />
Co-Presidents John Pleasants and James Pitaro announce a sweeping
reorganization of the group's money-losing digital media division,
including the closure of a development studio.<br />
<i>"...{Disney} <span style="background-color: yellow;">shifts away from expensive console games</span> to focus on
online and mobile entertainment...."</i><br />
<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/26/business/la-fi-ct-disney-interactive-20110126">http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/26/business/la-fi-ct-disney-interactive-20110126</a><br />
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<b>UPDATE 1: 4/21/2012</b>
<b>FORBES: More Marvel The Avengers Games Heading Home Soon From Disney</b><br />
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"<span style="background-color: yellow;">Once Disney bought the comic book giant, they switched all game development to Disney Interactive</span>." </i><br />
<b><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/04/21/more-marvel-the-avengers-games-heading-home-soon-from-disney/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/04/21/more-marvel-the-avengers-games-heading-home-soon-from-disney/</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Updated 4/11/2012</span><br />
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Video Game Company THQ (Ticker Symbol THQI) market capitalization , once $2 billion, dips below $35 million<br />
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<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/04/thq-market-value-once-2-billion-dips-below-35-million.html">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/04/thq-market-value-once-2-billion-dips-below-35-million.html</a><br />
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Sega lost its licenses to produce video games for Marvel and now Marvel is ...looking for publishing opportunities...<br />
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"previously reported in September 2011 that the license for the characters had reverted back to Marvel – hence, no more Sega – and that they were looking for publishing opportunities from other potential partners. With Jefferson hinting at incoming announcements, perhaps they found someone?"<br />
<a href="http://gamerant.com/marvel-movie-video-games-sega-robk-137564/">http://gamerant.com/marvel-movie-video-games-sega-robk-137564/</a><br />
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THQ cancelled their latest Marvel game to concentrate on their own intellectual property. Marvel seeks new home for THQ cancelled avengers game <br />
September 21 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2011/09/21/marvel-seeks-new-home-for-thq-cancelled-avengers-game/">http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2011/09/21/marvel-seeks-new-home-for-thq-cancelled-avengers-game/</a><br />
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I suspect that the opportunity Marvel is looking for is to produce Video Games "in-house" and the smartest and easiest way to do so is with a THQ acquisition.<br />
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Here is an interview with TQ Jefferson, VP games production for Marvel<br />
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Q: What role do video games play today for Marvel?<br />
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Jefferson: Over the past decade or so, video games have become more and more important as a means to reach out to existing fans, find new ones and to innovate in the ways that we present our characters and tell stories.<br />
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Q: Will Sega still be making Thor, Captain America and Iron Man games?<br />
Jefferson: There are no current plans for additional Marvel games to be published by Sega.<br />
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{Marvel seems to be displeased with LICENSED games}<br />
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Q: Do you think we're seeing fewer movie-licensed games today in the industry, and why do comics seem to be the exception?<br />
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Jefferson: In my opinion, the biggest afflictions affecting movie-licensed games is the amount of development time and a strict adherence to retelling the story of the film in the form of a game. The former is easy to understand -- less development time means less time to design, produce and polish the game, resulting in a poor or lesser-quality experience. The latter is a little more subtle, but I can sum it up thusly: ... In order to hit the expected amount of gameplay, you need to embellish, add additional characters, story, subplots and objectives to make a more robust and satisfying experience. That’s where a lot of movie licenses fall down – lack of content.<br />
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SOURCE: Hollywood Reporter<br />
<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvel-games-avengers-amazing-spider-man-gdc-tq-jefferson-296842">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvel-games-avengers-amazing-spider-man-gdc-tq-jefferson-296842</a><br />
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Marvel is very aware why THQ cancelled it Avenger's game. If THQ was under Marvel's control ...well then it wouldn't be a licensed game would it. Nothing wrong with a girl playing a little hard to get.<br />
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The Avengers: The Video Game leaks, cancelled by THQ in 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/30/the-avengers-the-video-game-leaks-cancelled-by-thq/">http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/30/the-avengers-the-video-game-leaks-cancelled-by-thq/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2009/01/comicsdying">Comhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gific Books are a dying Business</a> --- Not to say that Marvel is---Marvel is Thriving thanks to a Disney Acquisition. Marvel is already producing its own movies at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios">Marvel Studios</a> (and has been even prior to the Disney acquisition). Movies are a Leap from Comic books... but video games not so much. One could argue that video games are the next best thing and it's a bit surprising that Marvel took the leap from Comic Books straight to film....Moreover, Video Games are more lucrative than movies (in general we are not speaking of Marvel specifically here) --- Infographic Of The Day: Videogames Pwning Hollywood In Release Week Sales <a href="http://visual.ly/game-over-game-vs-movies">http://visual.ly/game-over-game-vs-movies</a><br />
Here is a Huge List of video games based on Marvel comics <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_based_on_Marvel_comics">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_based_on_Marvel_comics</a> --notice that Marvel has not published any of them --- they are all licenses.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">--- so why haven't they been producing their own video games????<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">This is where Di$ney comes in</span><br />
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Disney CEO comments on publishing Marvel games<br />
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02/10/2010 <br />
"Iger revealed that Disney may soon start publishing games on Marvel properties. Iger didn’t elaborate on when or how Disney would begin publishing Marvel video games so it could be some time before we see a Spider-Man game with a Disney Interactive label instead of an Activision one.<br />
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Currently most of the Marvel video game properties belong to a variety of companies such as Activision (Marvel comic universe, Spider-Man/X-Men film properties), <s>Sega (Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America film properties)</s> and THQ (Marvel animated properties). Activsion has the Marvel license locked up for a few more years but the exact contract details for <s>Sega</s> and THQ aren’t known. So it’ll be interesting to see how Disney goes about publishing Marvel games and whether it’ll be a case of waiting for the existing contracts to expire or if Disney will simply buy out the remaining contracts and throw bundles of cash at companies like Activsion <s>and Sega.</s> "<br />
<a href="http://shogungamer.com/news/disney-ceo-comments-publishing-marvel-games-and-disney-exclusivity-wii">http://shogungamer.com/news/disney-ceo-comments-publishing-marvel-games-and-disney-exclusivity-wii</a><br />
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Disney Plans High-Quality Executions of Marvel Content <br />
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3/15/2010<br />
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"The recent Disney results also echoed the belief that Marvel games would be good for the higher-end, more "hardcore" Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 demographic which some Disney properties have a more difficult time reaching. <br />
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However, since a number of third-party game publishers currently have agreements with Marvel -- for example, Sega for the upcoming Iron Man 2 game {Note: This is an article from 2 years ago! Sega recently lost its Marvel licenses...}-- it appears that it may be some time before all major Marvel properties free up for Disney control in terms of video games {The time is now!}. <br />
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As for what branding these titles would be released under, Disney's Wadsworth told Gamasutra: "If we do things under the Marvel brand it may just be [marked on the box] under the Marvel brand." He added that it also might be a joint Marvel/Disney brand in some cases."<br />
<a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27293/Disney_HighQuality_Executions_Of_Marvel_Games_Planned_PostAcquisition.php">http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27293/Disney_HighQuality_Executions_Of_Marvel_Games_Planned_PostAcquisition.php</a><br />
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This is what Marvel would be buying....A TEAM.. or should we say THQ's teams<br />
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"Darksiders 2 was a lot quicker to get done because we already had an established team, they were experienced and we had already made one game. When we first did the first Darksiders we had four people at the beginning. We didn’t even have a decent sized team for over a year. We didn’t have an engine. We were still building the technology and the tools. We didn’t have designers…we didn’t have anything. So it’s hard to count the first year and a half, or so, of the first game. But we did get Darksiders 2 done in half the time, because we already had a team ready. Building a good team, literally, takes years.<br />
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Says Joe Madureira of THQ's Vigil Games...<br />
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But wait, who is Joe Madureira?<br />
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Joe Madureira has done a lot of things. He’s worked as a comic book artist for Marvel Comics, and even created his own comic series under the Wildstorm label called Battle Chasers. ... Madureira (Joe Mad to his friends) and David Adams eventually left NCSoft and founded Vigil Games in 2005. Since then, Vigil Games has been acquired by THQ, and is currently shepherding the post-apocalyptic franchise Darksiders. At a recent preview event for Darksiders 2 I sat down with Joe Mad, Creative Director on Darksiders 2, to talk about his transition from comics to video games, the core tenets of the Darksiders franchise and even secret Nintendo assassins.<br />
SOURCE: <a href="http://playstationlifestyle.net/2012/03/22/mad-about-darksiders-2-joe-madureira-speaks-to-playstation-lifestyle/">http://playstationlifestyle.net/2012/03/22/mad-about-darksiders-2-joe-madureira-speaks-to-playstation-lifestyle/</a><br />
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Fast Forward to the Present: 4/3/2012 Marvel begins changing titles of employees (o.k. employee) working on Licensed Video Games from "Manager of Licensed Games" to "Interactive Manager"<br />
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"Ryan Penagos: My guest this week is Chris Baker Manager of Licensed Games.... oh no? no?<br />
Chris: My Title recently changed to Interactive Manager<br />
Ryan Penagos: Congratulations<br />
Chris: It's not a promotion its a title change ...but hey I'll take it<br />
Ryan Penagos: Yeah, well that <span style="font-style: italic;">signals<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> something I assume...<br />
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<a href="http://marvel.com/news/story/18451/download_episode_22.5_of_the_this_week_in_marvel_podcast_with_chris_baker">http://marvel.com/news/story/18451/download_episode_22.5_of_the_this_week_in_marvel_podcast_with_chris_baker</a><br />
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THQ has worked on successful video games for Marvel previously (look on bottom left)<br />
<a href="http://marvelshsgame.marvel.com/">http://marvelshsgame.marvel.com</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=marvel&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=thq.com&as_occt=any&safe=off&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=">Google Search marvel site:thq.com</a><br />
About 195,000 results<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=thq&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=marvel.com&as_occt=any&safe=active&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=#q=thq+2012+site:marvel.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&as_qdr=all&prmd=imvns&ei=An13T7GlOYHq0gGeuLC4DQ&start=10&sa=N&fp=1&biw=768&bih=429&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&cad=b">Google Search thq site:marvel.com</a><br />
About 176 results<br />
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Food For Thought: {What if we were to replace the word(s) "movie" and "motion pictures" with the words "Video Game" below?}<br />
"Marvel used to license out the rights for motion pictures in their characters to other film studios, because Marvel could not afford to make their own motion pictures. Therefore, it was more profitable for Marvel to license out the rights in an exchange for a substantial fee and a percentage of the gross proceeds from the films.....<br />
Back before Marvel started making its own movies, it was very beneficial to them to license out these movie rights to other studios. Unfortunately, now that Marvel has its own studios and is making their own comic book hero movies, they cannot just terminate their licensing contracts for some of the most popular heroes in the Marvel Universe. Marvel has no option now, but to wait for the other studios to break one of the licensing contracts or to buy the rights back, that is if the studios are willing to sell. "<br />
SOURCE: <a href="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/steveorjoey/news/?a=41001">http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/steveorjoey/news/?a=41001</a> Please read this article the author has put a lot of thought into this<br />
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Marvel gets Blade and The Punisher screen rights back, more movies coming?<br />
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Both of these characters have had three movies apiece now, but both have been off the big (and small) screen for some time. And now, Marvel Comics CEO, Joe Quesada, has confirmed that the rights have duly reverted back as a result.<br />
<a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/991095/marvel_gets_blade_and_the_punisher_screen_rights_back_more_movies_coming.html">http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/991095/marvel_gets_blade_and_the_punisher_screen_rights_back_more_movies_coming.html</a><br />
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For marvel to become immediately immersed in Video Games ...it needs only buy a company like THQI<br />
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<b>LINKBACKS</b><br />
<a href="http://www.hookedgamers.com/blogs/markbarley/2012/04/19/rumor_marvel_to_purchase_thq.html">http://www.hookedgamers.com/blogs/markbarley/2012/04/19/rumor_marvel_to_purchase_thq.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gamingcentrum.com/2012/is-marvel-going-to-buy-thq/">http://www.gamingcentrum.com/2012/is-marvel-going-to-buy-thq/</a><br />
<a href="http://gamingbolt.com/reports-speculate-a-thq-purchase-by-marvel">http://gamingbolt.com/reports-speculate-a-thq-purchase-by-marvel</a><br />
<a href="http://kotaku.com/5903103/speculation-marvel-to-buy-thq-and-make-video-games-in+house">http://kotaku.com/5903103/speculation-marvel-to-buy-thq-and-make-video-games-in+house</a><br />
<a href="http://game2gether.de/76663/wird-thq-von-marvel-aufgekauft/">http://game2gether.de/76663/wird-thq-von-marvel-aufgekauft/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gamalive.com/actus/12666-thq-rachat-marvel-disney-jeux-video.htm?p=1">http://www.gamalive.com/actus/12666-thq-rachat-marvel-disney-jeux-video.htm?p=1</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/17/will-marvel-buy-thq-games/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/17/will-marvel-buy-thq-games/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=175787">http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=175787</a><br />
<a href="http://boards.420chan.org/wooo/res/2043675.php">http://boards.420chan.org/wooo/res/2043675.php</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UeMlgvMjoM#t=44s">Youtube: GAMING NEWZ: Tekken Marvels At Darksider's Tag </a><br />
<b>DISCLOSURE: LONG THQI</b>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-70766042510812500252011-04-16T20:11:00.000-07:002011-04-16T20:13:14.132-07:00China's Ghost City "Pyramids"<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rPILhiTJv7E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-59598700174352939112011-02-23T13:02:00.001-08:002011-02-23T19:10:30.204-08:00What Me Worry?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyyv0YsoIPh2yb_dCYRv37LjrVPtL50S771euLSSQrWWmOfYKRWuGg2bFwC0p5sVkIUQT-9CRrGXGWUtP8ddL3jV87_orumO9ReiiICBduq2cI46ftaiK-Y6JQgjyxfXcn7-l28DN3PsE/s1600/what_worry_teeth_extract_1905_close.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyyv0YsoIPh2yb_dCYRv37LjrVPtL50S771euLSSQrWWmOfYKRWuGg2bFwC0p5sVkIUQT-9CRrGXGWUtP8ddL3jV87_orumO9ReiiICBduq2cI46ftaiK-Y6JQgjyxfXcn7-l28DN3PsE/s400/what_worry_teeth_extract_1905_close.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576997300572999874" /></a><br />I found the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman">Alfred E. Neuman </a> Holy Grail ---<div>The first picture of Mad's maddest mascot!</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a cropped photo of Ritter's Dental Parlor at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Fatbush+Avenue+%26+Schermerhorn+Street+Brooklyn&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Flatbush+Ave+%26+Schermerhorn+St,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11217&t=h&z=16">Northwest Corner of Flatbush Avenue</a> & Schermerhorn Street Downtown Brooklyn Circa 1905.</div><div><br /></div><div>It comes from Brian Merlis & Lee A. Rosenweig's Photo Compendium</div><div>"Brooklyn Heights & Downtown Volume I 1860 to 1922" </div><div><br /></div><div>The book was published in 2001</div><div><br /></div><div>Buy the book if you want to see entire image!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br />EDIT: After poking around it seems i'm not the only one to find this <br /><br /><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pre-mad-comic-1904-alfred-e-neuman-dentist-1">Dentist Handout</a><br /><br /><a href="http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/was-alfred-e-neuman-from-brooklyn/">Was Alfred E. Neuman from Brooklyn?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2010/02/mysteries-of-melvin_17.html">"It Didn't Hurt a Bit" Kid: Mysteries of Melvin </a>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-32519536309181324052011-02-04T17:32:00.000-08:002011-02-04T17:33:06.677-08:00What's the Internet anyway?<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JUs7iG1mNjI" frameborder="0"></iframe>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-84083364873666928692011-01-29T10:34:00.001-08:002011-01-29T10:34:35.119-08:00Egypt Protests<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uEN6eKcO9RU" frameborder="0"></iframe>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-40157778839799609152011-01-24T17:40:00.001-08:002011-01-24T17:40:35.613-08:00Seinfeld: "Jerry the Great" re-cut trailer<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z14_-En-JTk" frameborder="0"></iframe>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-81574073863490183072011-01-16T16:51:00.000-08:002011-01-16T16:53:01.577-08:00Douglas Rushkoff goes nuts<script src="http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?autoplay=1&embedCode=VmN2xyMTo5V4kbLAo7vMJdcRMrfiOzQP&browserPlacement=right489px&deepLinkEmbedCode=VmN2xyMTo5V4kbLAo7vMJdcRMrfiOzQP%2CZkbG9yMTruVXdsITsBG748xOfGM4HLf8%2C90YnVyMToXwJ7Mhi24k2if1Za8h-E7KV"></script>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-16815121708125573792010-03-19T19:06:00.000-07:002010-03-19T19:08:00.110-07:00Seinfeld Puffy Shirt Transfer: Museum of American History<object id='cspan-video-player' classid='clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0' width='410' height='500' align='middle'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'/><param name='movie' value='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf'/><param name='quality' value='high'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/flashXml/137439&style=full'/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf' base='http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/' allowScriptAccess='always' width='410' height='500' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' align='middle' allowFullScreen='true' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/flashXml/137439&style=full'/></object></embed<br />>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-2141503244877878532009-09-17T13:38:00.000-07:002009-09-17T13:41:13.897-07:00Nerdcore Rising<a href="http://www.nerdcorerisingmovie.com/">Nerdcore Rising </a>the Documentary is out on Netflix. <br /><br />Does MC Frontalot still live in Prospect Heights?BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-35298021856914580922009-04-22T19:22:00.000-07:002009-04-22T19:26:04.458-07:00You use a Modem, Is this True?<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5179322278194364152#5m20s"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhu3dvzGY0R0jX2JX5YZD4qrXW4ueuzsABnH5rbXqRU9RU240hptAyl-nTwc6XYIE6Gh1dYb1-4yE2c8OEDu59SJCO5OTgeYkV4cGydHce96ia6jLOWzhTfbZDRuD-3a8Ua2nWxjlF5Bk/s1600-h/64ready.gif"><img style="display:block; 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We’re not making toasters"<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/5-0&fp=494a1eb0070dbe74&ei=hP5KSdeLCZXFmQeowNCaDw&url=http%3A//www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2008/12/even_now_only_10_months.html&cid=1281464651&sig2=DAHog8auKv3pa6KbcmIusg&usg=AFQjCNEb3n1tEFVr0F9gKr13n3su-OAJoA"><br />But at the end of the day</a>, you do what you have to do. <br /><br /><br />So he said, <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/6-0&fp=494a1eb0070dbe74&ei=hP5KSdeLCZXFmQeowNCaDw&url=http%3A//blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/12/18/how-i-made-partner-at-boies-schiller-get-out-of-the-weeds/&cid=0&sig2=IDvwaX5gsTVfHwMwvGOr7g&usg=AFQjCNGz-S1X9r_94VvGJcz36QG-UTZ1IA">at the end of the day</a>, if you can’t think of anything, give law a try. <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/8-0&fp=494a1eb0070dbe74&ei=Jf9KSf_9L5XFmQeQwbCbDw&url=http%3A//readme.readmedia.com/news/show/Dr-Eunice-Bellinger-Marks-First-100-Days-at-Genesee/316275&cid=1281383630&sig2=fkvzLXAk5npxFhTFuNNI4A&usg=AFQjCNGo7i_852FM0slO5MrfHCB2W5toCg">At the end of the day</a>, we realize we are more alike than we are different.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/3-0&fp=494a1eb0070dbe74&ei=Zf9KSfqDAdbemQfTkMiVDw&url=http%3A//www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Health-Fears-Hurt-Apple-s-Stock/story.xhtml%3Fstory_id%3D10100BA03DKM&cid=1280942010&sig2=k_r0tDlKAmEs8UqL_Xhu5w&usg=AFQjCNEAhCxeWELdfHrCfQr9g2-o1xBwcQ">At the end of the day</a>, according to Gartenberg, Apple has more than just Steve Jobs.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0&fp=494a1eb0070dbe74&ei=ov9KScS8L8KPmAel3d2WDw&url=http%3A//www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081218-NEWS-81218043&cid=1281409567&sig2=NBgpHgTn0lTr8X7wDGZjxw&usg=AFQjCNHsvWc_iVbpIfm1uZUz8TMYcPNJWg">At the end of the day</a>, I'm still for the death penalty.<br /><br /><br />Yes, and <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/4-0&fp=494a1eb0070dbe74&ei=ov9KScS8L8KPmAel3d2WDw&url=http%3A//www.screenindia.com/news/The-Day-The-Earth-Stood-Still--English-/399612/&cid=1281219506&sig2=Cjp0xxWJRb0haVzJCa1G-Q&usg=AFQjCNFlH_KnoxTYDriUuQzYxy422EbWkA">at the end of the day</a> it’s still an alien invasion movie with environmental messages<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8G77A9jZSsnNFbH_B-5o1MF-JFwD953FP580">At the end of the day</a>, a win is a win, regardless of how you get it<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/3-0&fp=494b1eb0070dbe74&ei=lQBLSbLfD4LFmQeh3_WXDw&url=http%3A//mvn.com/cavalierattitude/2008/12/at-the-end-of-the-day-we-are-who-are.html&cid=0&sig2=X72KA-6FdZySOHBexyaCPA&usg=AFQjCNEFp2ij_ROO9OQKNNa6dneDlc5WFQ">At The End of the Day</a>, We Are Who We Are<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0&fp=494b1eb0070dbe74&ei=5ABLSY77KpXFmQf3v8SaDw&url=http%3A//www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/12/eugene-jarecki.html&cid=1281366264&sig2=lwYoBpcTZoNy3ja7rFc6jQ&usg=AFQjCNHXKpYxg812OUUkr-hKG4M0iOl-4g">At the end of the day</a>, you're standing in front of an empty house with a great big gun<br /><br /><br />I think <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/8-0&fp=494b1eb0070dbe74&ei=5ABLSY77KpXFmQf3v8SaDw&url=http%3A//www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/17/technology/iphone.php&cid=1281137787&sig2=RP1ASmVz0IA7Hy0318lcKg&usg=AFQjCNGICZfEdHxS8z5pFUzt5jO2tiRWdQ">at the end of the day</a>, this will be more of a loss to Orange than to Apple...BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-41762881385334655342008-06-06T12:00:00.000-07:002008-06-06T12:07:32.048-07:00Fish Market Men<embed width="440px" height="380px" flashvars="configHome=http://video.thirteen.org&vidID=1697&epID=637&autoPlay=false&configAdLevel=0&remote=true" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" useexpressinstall="true" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="thirteenplayer" id="thirteenplayer" src="http://video.thirteen.org/flash/thirteen.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></embed><br /><br /><embed width="440px" height="380px" flashvars="configHome=http://video.thirteen.org&vidID=1698&epID=637&autoPlay=false&configAdLevel=0&remote=true" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" useexpressinstall="true" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="thirteenplayer" id="thirteenplayer" src="http://video.thirteen.org/flash/thirteen.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></embed>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-27410342951795883142008-06-05T19:40:00.000-07:002008-06-05T19:43:57.397-07:00Shout Out to Tom GreenYes, Tim and Eric are awesome. 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<br />Egg The Arts Show....Absolutely was one of the best shows on TV ever.BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-14620131503098757992008-05-24T12:32:00.000-07:002008-05-24T12:33:21.665-07:00Michael's Ants<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pDbrMidAH8c&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pDbrMidAH8c&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-63433297159365433612008-05-23T18:16:00.000-07:002008-05-23T18:17:12.689-07:00<object width="400" height="300"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=993998&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"> <embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=993998&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/993998?pg=embed&sec=993998">MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/blu?pg=embed&sec=993998">blu</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=993998">Vimeo</a>.BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-56681526730175825712008-05-18T15:56:00.000-07:002008-05-18T20:19:13.278-07:00The Death of Cable TV: What’s Next for Hulu?<p class="MsoNormal">The Death of Cable TV: What’s Next for Hulu?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Back in March, South Park Studios <a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/news/3405">announced</a> that all the episodes of <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">South</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> would be made available for free.<span style=""> </span>A month later I bought a 32” <a href="http://www.vizio.com/">Vizio</a> LCD HDTV Set with an RGB (a.k.a VGA) input (<a href="http://www.dealnews.com/">Refurbished for less than $500</a>) that would allow me to watch web video “TV style.”<span style=""> </span>Just recently, <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/05/13itunes.html">Apple announced</a> that HBO’s shows would be available piecemeal over at iTunes <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/hbo-shows-now-available-on-itunes-curb-and-entourage-not-coming-any-time-soon">(what? No Curb just yet?).</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>These events collectively spoke to me…and they said cancel your Cable TV subscription.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><br />There is a dirty little secret in TV land.<span style=""> </span>The gateway to cable TV for many was (is?)<span style=""> </span>that reception (including here in Brooklyn New York) of regular rabbit ears TV is a winter wonderland. Snowflakes are everywhere and some channels have no reception at all.<span style=""> </span>That’s where basic cable becomes a necessity and was used as gateway to upsell standard and premium channels.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So I fired up my Vizio, grabbed a simple coax cable to use as a makeshift antenna and auto scanned the dials. Click, snow; Click,…. holy cow,<span style=""> </span>crystal clear HDTV and it’s free.<span style=""> </span>Free HDTV means that if I cancel cable I won’t lose the “power of now.”<span style=""> </span>The power of instant, live Television has been taken for granted but not forgotten in the age of Tivo.<span style=""> </span>I would argue that most of us would feel a loss of power by losing the (cap)ability of the Power of Now TV.<span style=""> </span>We would feel this loss (probably subconsciously) even in DVR in demand society.<span style=""> </span>But free HDTV coming across the board and it’s “<a href="http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html">sooner than you think</a>.”<span style=""> </span>And now is the time to cancel your cable TV.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Although it may seem counterintuitive, if Hulu also embraces the concept of the power of now it will accelerate viewer exodus from cable TV. Perhaps there is not enough “<a href="http://rushkoff.com/books/get-back-in-the-box/">in the Box</a>” thinking going on here and a little too much “me too” I can be an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb">Interwebs</a> content provider. There are allot of couch potatoes out there who are too lazy to search for TV programming on the web (yes it is a sad state of affairs) and at the other end of the spectrum we have the armchair critic.<span style=""> </span>And this is where we will find what’s next for Hulu and company.<span style=""> </span>Instead of just static content waiting to be found there will be genre channels streaming “live” (including <a href="http://www.nitpickers.com/movies/nitpick.cgi?np=349">rerurns</a>) with content continually voted on “<a href="http://www.digg.com/">DIGG style</a>” by viewers like you and me.<span style=""> </span>Just click the stream and get your nonstop now content.<span style=""> </span>Think or don’t think, but it’s there and it’s happening now and it’s empowering.<span style=""> </span>Now some of you might think that it would get awful boring always having the same content running because only our favorite episodes will be streaming.<span style=""> </span>But new content and even plot and story line and news coverage can be voted on.<span style=""> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_your_own_adventure">Choose (y)our own adventure</a>.<span style=""> </span>What’s more, don’t we all like to sit down and stare at a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom">roadside accident</a> now and then?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">According to Alexa, the <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/veoh.com?q=">86<sup>th</sup> most popular website</a> on the entire internet is not Hulu but <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/tv-shows.html">Veoh</a>.<span style=""> </span>Veoh doesn’t create it’s own content and some (a lot?) of it’s content *is* linked to Hulu, the 1,086<sup>th</sup> most popular website (yes, the <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/hulu.com?q=">1,086<sup>th</sup></a>, exactly 1,000 behind). There is also content from <a href="http://television.aol.com/in2tv">AOL’s In2TV</a> which includes cult classics such as <a href="http://video.aol.com/video-category/max-headroom/103273">Max Headroom</a> and <a href="http://video.aol.com/video-category/freddys-nightmares/103269">Freddy’s Nightmares</a> (which is more similar to The <a href="http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=twilight+zone">Twilight Zone</a> than Nightmare on <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Elm Street</st1:address></st1:street>).<span style=""> </span>Well I suppose Hulu doesn’t really create it’s own but is a collaboration of efforts but really this is semantics.<span style=""> </span>I’m not sure why Veoh doesn’t seem to link to content from <a href="http://www.adultswim.com/video/index.html">Adult Swim</a> which has great shows such as <a href="ttp://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39219ebcf430119ed0ee1890013">Assy McGee</a> and <a href="http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39217ab41660117ad6d54aa0143">Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job</a>!<span style=""> </span>Other portals worth namedropping here are <a href="http://www.sidereel.com/_television">sidereel</a>, <a href="http://www.fancast.com/full_episodes">fancast</a>, and <a href="http://www.joost.com/">Joost</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure if we will ever again see an event (phenomenon?) such as <a href="http://www.cbs.com/video/?source=innertube_vanity_url">CBS</a>’ the final episode of M*A*S*H on 2/28/1993 which had 50,150,000 households as viewers.<span style=""> </span>We can probably thank our DVRs for that.<span style=""> </span>But can someone tell me, during the final episode of M*A*S*H did TV stations have central, western, eastern time (etc.) i.e. a “staggered” airing…or was <a href="http://noosphere.princeton.edu/">everyone watching at the same time?</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.tomgreen.com/">Barrel Roll!</a></p><br /><style>div#main{overflow:visible;}</style><div style="overflow: visible; background-color: rgb(213, 48, 0); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 425px; z-index: 500;"><a href="http://www.adultswim.com/video/index.html" style="display: block;"><img src="http://www.adultswim.com/video/embeded_header.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="30" width="425" /></a><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.adultswim.com/video/vplayer/index.html" height="350" width="425"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="movie" value="http://www.adultswim.com/video/vplayer/index.html"><param name="FlashVars" value="id=8a25c39215fa78a40115fc86e9f001c4"><embed src="http://www.adultswim.com/video/vplayer/index.html" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="id=8a25c39215fa78a40115fc86e9f001c4" allowfullscreen="true" height="350" width="425"></embed></object></div>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720285242372977284.post-55621903220749656622008-05-17T22:13:00.000-07:002008-05-17T22:14:40.845-07:00Diplomatic Immunity<object width="510" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/bQZtSPDHlqhDoTQmB0KHSA"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/bQZtSPDHlqhDoTQmB0KHSA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="510" height="295"></embed></object>BIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819505673084727102noreply@blogger.com0