nonlinear

So a story about a guy masturbating at the library is ripped and re-encoded for youtube and finds a home on dozens of blogs where thousands (100K+) watch it in a matter of hours.
The next obvious step for such a viral video? A t-shirt.

Carl Monday is watching you masturbate (Version 1)
Carl Monday is watching you [...]

Well, that’s a slight exaggeration.
Moments after the Cavs titanic win over the Pistons Wednesday night, streaming video was unavailable on NBA.com (See the picture above.)
My guess? Cleveland fans, hungry for a series win over the Pistons, swarmed onto the site, bogging down the league’s servers. Just a theory.
Now, why do I care about this? [...]

Stephen Colbert killed at the Bush roast this weekend, speaking truthiness to power.
This is Must see TV

part1, part2 (above), part3
I hope you haven’t eaten anything in the last thirty minutes America, because we are going swimming in the deep end of the truth.
More Colbert Report: wiki, colbert nation

Jump the Shark has yet to decide whether South Park has gotten long in the tooth, but after two episodes this season dissin’ environmentalism, I’m pulling an Issac Hayes and leaving.
Since 1997, I’ve enjoyed their preachy comedic messages … but it’s finally gotten boring.
Cartman: You seem a little irritable, Dan. You got some sand in [...]

The original Battlestar Galactica (BSG) was a corny knockoff of the original Star Wars, so it’s fitting that the new BSG is taking a page from George Lucas by developing a new show, Caprica, to tell the back story of the BSG universe.
Similar to Star Wars, Episode I, Caprica will be set 50 years before [...]

URLFAN is a quick way to see what bloggers and web sites are linking back to your own site.
Much like alexa.com, URLFAN is one way to judge how effective your online presence is. In many ways, having a good number of blogs linking back to your site shows just how the most engaged online users [...]

Does anyone else break out laughing at the new Burger King commercial for “bucking chicken?”
Big, bucking chicken
You are big, you are chicken
Big bucking chicken
… the only way to beat it, is to eat it …
bucking chicken
Especially in that last line, there is no distinguishing the “b” in buckin’ with the “f” in #@&^in’ [...]

BestBuy surprised me with an offer for MovieBeam in their Sunday circular. It’s a project that’s been in the works for some time.
It’s an interesting use of broadcast TV bandwidth to distribute movies to homes.
A quick list of problems with the service is easy to create, however:

Costs ALOT more upfront than NetflixLet’s see: $200 for [...]

Thanks for the forward, Dad, and the headline, Baba

A few media companies experiment attempt to co-opt Web 2.0 companies