I watched the first ep of Newstopia and hated it, but stuck with the secon, and thought its pretty good and has jumped in my weekly rotation.

…talk about not knowing which side to boo-!

Massive egos and an overdeveloped sense of entitlement… Hang on, which side am I talking about there?

Guys, you MUST mention this on the next show.

“We want this to be Fair and Balanced”.

Yeah, right.

Prime Minister John Howard said there was nothing slow about broadband speeds being rolled out in Australia.

“We are laying out speed of 12 megabytes per second by 2009 to 99 per cent of the community,” he told reporters. “There’s nothing slow about that.”

Just a few thoughts on the podcast:
1. The Festival of Light is Fred Nile. I would expect nothing less from them. The Censors are bound by the legislation, aren’t they? Were Ch 10 breaking the rules by showing it? I doubt it – I really don’t think there’ll be a problem, unless 10 get skittish about advertising $, but I would’ve thought that for every sponsor who pulled their ads, there’d be another who wanted the spot.

2. Speaking of advertising $, I’m sure TT/ACA (can’t recall which one it was – aren’t they the same anyway?) would have contacted Reckitt Benckiser to let them know they were “thinking” of running a piece about Louie’s 50th birthday and would they be interested in paying for a bit of a plug?

3. Ross – the Geek shall inherit the earth. And I watched Double The Fist – and laughed. So there.

4. Did this week’s Quiz winner wish to remain anonymous? You didn’t say who it was.

Here endeth my 2 cents.

Almost.

Last night’s Chaser was excellent, particularly Andrew Hanson’s song – fucking brilliant. They pushed it to the absolute limit (well, almost – they gutted out on “c*nts”, the wusses). Interestingly, the feedback from the public has been positive, but our Glorious Leader/s tut-tutted.

It’s so hard to get good technical reporting these days. Just about any reportage about technology is full of inaccuracies and misleading statements.

It sounds like the problem here is actually large TVs, rather than the technology used. People just demand bigger TVs than they did before. LCD screens themselves come in all manner of sizes, from portable ones for the car, to big screens.

That’s what I though.

I don’t mind pressure being put on manufacturers to be nicer for the environment, but it seems wrong to suggest that new TVs are less efficient than old CRT TVs.

i was watching ‘criminal minds’ last night, (well, killing time between south park and boston legal, having caught up on all of my current channel BT viewing) thinking that i might perhaps drop a line in here and whinge about how excrutiating criminal minds is to watch, and there you go, you wonderful lads, announcing that it’s in the running for torture awards. only i think this must be the only show in the nominations that display torture in the form of ‘jason gideon’ have to work with planks of 2 x 4 reading the other lines.

tut, tut mandy, what were you thinking? are you just biding time til someone offers you a part in “princess bride 2: daughter of princess bride, revisited, again”? were you smoking crack for a very long time, then suddenly stopped and sobered up, before refusing to return to set??? man, those drugs musta been good….

why is it that this crap is being given quality air time and so many other wonderfully crafted labours of love, brimming with talent, are given shitty time slots, if given any at all?

rant. thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

also – what bastard accused Lost of only being for nerds. freaking ABC radio snobs. wankers, all of em.