via BoingBoing. Jack Black, international rock god, movie idol, and philosopher, wants to stamp out piracy, and he’s sending us this message in the form of an embeddable YouTube vid with a copyright notice and the cover of his latest album one sheet for his new Tenacious D movie. Hmmmmmm…
Some people, although not all people, and certainly none of the people who post around these parts, hold the major New York media outlets in esteem which almost amounts to veneration. They have, perhaps, confused New Yorkers with The New Yorker.
And there are those, among them us, who revere the Washington Post for the achievements of its past; it is the ultimate journalistic coaster, except maybe for Carl Bernstein.
MediaBistro’s FishbowlDC is chipping away at the tiny amount of reverence we still have for the paper, with ongoing coverage of the hooker index, tracking the change in escort/massage ads in the WaPo over time.
The chart is flat for the week, but the high-water mark came on Wednesday with 10 ads.
Far from agreeing with Fishbowl‘s diagnosis of “sale” we at the raincoaster blog would just like to point out that there is a reason that Wednesday has its famous nickname.
Longtime readers of the raincoaster blog will recall our fondness for crittercams of various types, as well as our ridicule of the Guardian NewsBlog when it gave up its barely-credible claims to newsworthiness entirely and gave itself over to liveblogging a pair of nesting carrion crows who just happened to be right outside the office window.
Let us remind you that the primary difference between raincoaster and the Guardianistas is about £15 an hour, and the fact that raincoaster lists eaglecams, peregrincams, and pandacams rather than flyingvermincams.
Standards, people; we’re all about the standards!
Look: baby panda!
Stolen from Gawker. Why is it that none of the tall, handsome white boys can dance?
Well in all honesty, if a panda went on a rampage and destroyed downtown Toronto with its laser-beam eyes, all we in the West would say is “Cool! Is it up on YouTube yet?”
As it is, all we have to report is that a panda has eaten a small piece of an American. To which we say, “Cool! Is it up on YouTube yet?”
A panda cub bit off part of the thumb of an American visitor who was feeding the animal at a reserve in southwest China, state media reported Thursday.
The 50-year-old woman, identified only as Lisa,
had registered in the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan province as a volunteer, according to the official Xinhua News Agency…
Last month, a drunken Chinese tourist bit a panda at the Beijing Zoo after the animal attacked him when he jumped into the enclosure and tried to hug it.
That’ll teach those damn huggers a lesson!
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