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Posts published in “Year: 2008”

SNL Censorship?

I learned today that an SNL skit from last week was put on Hulu by NBC and then quickly pulled out.
What is interesting is that the skit is against Dems so to speak.


For those who do not see what skit I’m talking about, you can see a transcript of it over here.

There’s somewhat of a debate out there on whether or not the pull-out was a political move due to lobying and/or the Sandlers (yes, they’re real) with their good friend George Soros.

NBC is currently trying to eradicate any online trace of the sketch (whether on YouTube or anywhere else), as well as any comments regarding the “censorship”.

As Rizzn points out in his blog post, this kind of censorship might become more and more common, especially with Net-Neutrality far from being an “important enough” issue, and far from being a net reality.
The Reps and Joe Biden are kind of against it…

The Amazing Colbert-Man


Remember that thing about Stephen Colbert being in the next Spider-Man comic?

The New York Times just revealed a couple days ago that the villain Colbert will be facing is none other than…spoiler alert…a grizzly.
Well, actually, The Grizzly.
Who is that? Doesn’t matter.
What matters is that it is now the Number One threat on the Threat Down.


Go Colbert!

Also, Wired has a great little interview with Marvel’s editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada, and Amazing Spider-Man’s writer, Mark Waid.

Here’s a little excerpt:

Wired.com: What is it about Colbert that makes him worthy of safeguarding Captain America’s shield or becoming president of the Marvel Universe?

Mark Waid: Colbert’s worthy because he loves and respects our heroes. And in a world with J. Jonah Jameson in it, that’s an important qualification.

Joe Quesada: Colbert is a true American hero. He’s said so on TV, which means it must be true!

Remember that the issue comes out next week (Oct. 15 to be precise)!

DVersity

The following post is aimed at my fellow international readers who might have read my previous Visa Breakdown and would like to know just a little more about that lottery thingy, also known as DV-2010 this year: registration is now open.

This year, the DV lottery is catching up with technology, offering for the first time clear knowledge of whether or not you were selected, online.
Indeed, in previous years, you either received a notification letter, or you didn’t. Maybe the letter was lost in the mail.
Anyway, this year, you will be able next July to look online if you were indeed selected or not.

As for the application itself, as always, it is very easy.
The most tricky part might be the photo ID you have to produce.
The difficulty lies in the various criteria you have to respect, which is not always easy to say the least. More info on that over here.


For you Firefox users, you should definitely go over to the SSL Entry rather than the Standard Entry (they have some coding problem over there).

Remember that registration is totally free and ends Dec. 1.

If you still have questions, there’s a 99.9% chance that this document will answer it.

Good luck, and Namaste.