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Cable Companies vs. Internet

Monday, 22 June 2009 11:06 paulina1

Pcontinental Television Set 1960's With the analog signal gone, many TV's rely on a converter box to pick up the Digital signal that is being broadcasted over the air, if you are not a subscriber to a Cable network or to a Satellite company.

And if you are like me and refuse to pay the outrageous amount of dollars that these companies are charging, you will either have to opt for the converter boxes, or you will turn to the Internet to watch some of the shows offered on Cable TV.

The major broadcasting stations have available web content for some of the shows, but if your show is not listed in their broadcasting line up you have to find another way to gain access to them. Which can be a bit unnerving sometimes, but in the long run pays off.

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The Da Vinci Scam

Friday, 05 June 2009 10:51 Liam

The popularity of The Da Vinci Code has spawned a great deal of controversy and also numerous television documentaries. These documentaries are usually hosted by Leonard Nimoy and pose an endless series of questions which are of course, never answered. Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene actually married with children? Do their descendants still walk the earth today? Has a secret society called the Priory of Sion existed since the time of the Knights Templar and do they hold the secret to the bloodline of Jesus Christ? Could the infamous quest for the Holy Grail relate to this secret? Did Leonardo Da Vinci know the answers to all of these questions and hide clues for the rest of us in his art?

Perhaps most important of all, is Dan Brown's book just a very clever scam?

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Home entertainment agoraphobia

Saturday, 30 May 2009 02:26 Liam

Not so very long ago, having a personal computer at home was unthought-of. The internet was just a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye. Many people still watched black and white television and had never heard of cable. You might have been lucky enough to own an early video recorder if you were one of the few who could afford the exorbitant price tag. An even more select elite had early mobile phones; they had the prefix ‘007’, were the size of a brick and could not be taken out of your car. The closest you got to an interactive game was pong. No, I am not referring to a dark age hundreds of years ago; things were still pretty much this way until the end of the 1980s.

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Ghost In the Machine

Friday, 05 June 2009 10:26 Liam

Most evenings my computer and I are inextricably linked, however while I work I like to have the TV on. It serves as audio visual wallpaper and is makes the atmosphere a little more comforting. Despite the fact that I only half watch out of the corner of my eye, I prefer to watch something at least semi acceptable. Lately, to my great surprise, my TV has been changing channels all of its own accord, usually to something I wouldn’t normally choose.

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Beware Wolves Wearing Gucci

Friday, 24 April 2009 06:27 kate

My initial plan was for this post to be about the rather bizarre and contradictory way womens' bodies are portrayed by the media, and with that in mind I set off to do some research. Three hours later, I still have no post, and also seem to have lost what little self-esteem I did have. My mistake was to venture into the realm of online publications for women, where, in very little time, I discovered I was far too hideous to ever be considered attractive by anyone other than than some desperate Quasimodo look-a-like. No really, it's true! I read all about it in Marie-Claire, Cosmo et al who were kind enough to alert me to a wide assortment of physical 'flaws'. Except, the logical part of my brain tells me they aren’t flaws, (I’ve been complimented on a couple which suggests they are attributes, no?) and that even if they were, it shouldn’t matter. So why does it? Why do I care about living up to some unattainable ideal set by faceless corporations who just want to make money?