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...coming joost revolution, led by Skype veterans Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, may move TV to the Internet, but that is no reason to call Microsoft's popular WebTV service, which does the opposite, a dud [March 12]. Of Joost, Jeremy Caplan said, "Simplicity is the magic," but nothing is simpler than WebTV. Sure, Microsoft dropped the ball by discontinuing WebTV. But we old-timers--I am almost 83--love it. Lloyd Saletan, New York City...
...Khamenei, who has yet to repudiate Ahmadinejad. "If Parliament senses for a second that Khamenei has withdrawn his support, the government will fall," says Atrianfar. A politician close to Rafsanjani tells Time, "Most of the decision makers and the élite are against him. If he becomes less popular, even the Supreme Leader will withdraw his support...
There are valid reasons to bash TV violence. The CSI series are desensitizingly gross. 24 uses torture to the point of self-parody. (The PTC counts 67 instances of it in the first five seasons.) But these shows are also long running and hugely popular. To suggest that children need federal protection from "accidentally" watching shows well known to be violent at best lets parents off the hook and at worst masks an agenda: to prevent other parents from making choices that antiviolence activists disagree with...
...after finishing the clip, I was left wondering several different things, only one of which merits reprinting here: have the blues ceased to exist in mainstream popular culture? Part of the reason “Black Snake Moan” drew my attention was the relative rarity of hearing blues in a popular context (read: not on NPR or PBS). I’ve always loved the blues, but I recognize their relative obscurity and never expected to encounter them in any conventional, popularized setting...
...hasn’t the father of rock and roll reentered the popular spectrum? Has “contemporary rock” drifted so far from its roots that the roots themselves no longer hold any value for average listeners...