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I recently watched Quiz Show since first seeing it about 9 years ago. Still a good movie, but what's possible now (that wasn't really possible in 1995) is a huge amount of available information on the internet. I dug up a great set of videos, transcripts, and other stuff at PBS' website ("The Quiz Show Scandal"). Not only does much of the information support the factual nature of the movie Quiz Show, but there's also a lot of other interesting information there, too. For instance, Dr. Joyce Brothers gained her fame as a contestant on The $64,000 Challenge, one of the many rigged quiz shows in the 1950's (although she is noted as being one of the few contestants who did not willingly participate in the organized fraud). |
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Pamela Jones put together a nice snapshot of Microsoft ("Use Our Software or Somebody Might Get Hurt"), including quotations from Steve Ballmer telling various Asian goverments that "someday, somebody will come" after them. |
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The Chief Idiot of Disney, Michael Eisner, and one of his idiot minions, Dick Cook, have announced their intention to create Toy Story 3 without Pixar Animation ("'Toy Story 3' in the works"). Basically, Pixar and Disney had a business agreement that is up for renewal, and Pixar realized that they were being screwed in many ways by Disney, so they have announced that they did not intend to renew the Pixar/Disney parnership in 2005. That leaves Disney with their pants around their ankles, still sucking in the modern world, and with few good options available. So Eisner is pushing for the big move that every big Hollywood idiot studio would do - squeeze another sequel out of a movie, even if the original creators want nothing to do with it, and even if it runs a serious risk of becoming a huge, huge catastrophe at the box office. That doesn't matter though, as long as Disney can convince enough innocent people to go see the movie within the first few weeks (before word spreads that the movie is horrible, which it most certainly will be). |
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The success of Wal-Mart should never be taken lightly, because it's no accident that they're good at when they do. This article ("What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits") touches on some of the practices that they use to stay ahead of the field. Impressive, thorough, intrusive, and scary all come to mind. |
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Here's a nice compilation from BBC News ("Bush win under world press spotlight") showing what the rest of the world thinks of Bush's re-election. Some are in support, many are not. I posted a few gems below... Bush's election comes when the majority of people in the world said "no" to Bush, which will make the Atlantic chasm even deeper... The election outcome is a win for a conservative America... A liberal America, open to what Europe has to say, has lost. -- Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza The American voters found the "danger" of gay marriages or the expansion of adoption more important than the soldiers being killed in Iraq. Mostly, the white conservatives of the American rural areas voted for the "tough cowboy from Texas". The youth vote in the port cities, the women, the Hispanics, the blacks were not sufficient for a change. Fear has won. The world has lost. -- Turkey's Milliyet The battle is finally over. But a deeply divided nation remains... This is a problem very largely of Mr Bush's making, for American society is reaping what he has sown... His policies have deepened the rifts in American society. And by toughening his stance on the most divisive issues during the election campaign, the president has further split the nation. -- Hong Kong's South China Morning Post |
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