Patrick Havens on March 23rd, 2007

The Daily Show Responds to the Viacom suing Google:
Freaking hilarious clip, and looking at the info, it wasn’t uploaded by them, or they “created” a junk account.

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Patrick Havens on March 20th, 2007

Got you to look. David Letterman is known for his work ethic in which he’s always been there on his scheduled shows. Well tonight will be different:
David Letterman has gone home sick this afternoon, forcing his CBS program to call in reinforcements from its guest list.
Adam Sandler, who had been scheduled to be [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 15th, 2007

Season Premiere: Friday March 16th at 10pm/9C!
Mail Call on History Channel

Mail Call : Military Sidearms/Glock Handguns/MG42/WWII British Commando Weapons/Gun Truck Alley: #61. Airs on Friday March 16 12:30 PM
R. Lee Ermey discusses the future of the military sidearm while squeezing in a little trigger time with some Glock handguns. Next, the Gunny sets [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 27th, 2007

I saw… I laughed… I’m passing it on.

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Patrick Havens on January 26th, 2007

What happened?” My accountant asked last April. He’d been doing my taxes for more than a decade and had seen my annual income rise well into the six figures.
“It looks like you took a . . . “–he worked over his calculator–”98 percent pay cut.”
“Yep, that sounds about right.”
“How did this happen?”
It was quite simple, [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 9th, 2007

On 22 November 1987, sports anchor Dan Roan of Chicago’s WGN-TV News Network was narrating the video of the day’s football highlights when something highly unusual happened. The pictures on the station monitors in the studio suddenly began to jitter and twitch. Across Chicago, countless other televisions did the same, as Dan’s clips of the [...]

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Lucas made a huge splash at the Rose Bowl Parade in which he had 200 “Troopers of the 501st” march in it as well as a whole band in Imperial garb. Afterwards he sat down for an interview and talked a little about his up[coming TV Series based on Star Wars between Episode 2 [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 2nd, 2007

A troupe of dancers in skin-colored body suits had Japanese national broadcaster NHK apologizing to viewers for what seemed to be a full-scale Janet Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction during its New Year’s Eve music special.
The dancers, who all appeared to be topless and wore skimpy bikini-style bottoms and feathered head-dresses, covered the stage during a performance [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 12th, 2006

I had posted a while ago that the Mozilla Organization was asking for video ads to be used for TV spots once they got enough money together (and chose some good ones).  Well I just read that time has come:
After last years full page ad in the New York Times, the folks at the Mozilla [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 29th, 2006

There’s a new, faster, more efficient version of Democracy Player out today. Democracy is the free and open Internet video player that can subscribe to easily-published video feeds. It automatically fetches new videos using BitTorrent (so the video-maker’s server is never overwhelmed by sudden popularity) and it plays it no matter what video format it’s [...]

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