The Daily Show is as substantive as the "real" news

Slashdot recently posted a link to this article in which Ars Technica claims that The Daily Show is as substantive as the "real" news.



Now, I can't really say that I'm all that surprised since Jon Stewart is a comic genius, but come on let's give the mainstream news some credit and count political bullshitting and chatter about the nice old lady who got the Channel 0 News Best Medicore Person of the Year Award as content as well. I mean... not all "news" has to be relavent to the world, right? This is America after all. We like to pretend that we are the only country in the world and are therefore the best. Who needs global perspective anyway, right? (Hopefully you caught the abundant sarcasm in my last few comments.)



Anyway, I just found the article funny, so I thought I'd note it here. Plus, a friend needed a convenient link to it and the INDY Blog seems to work quite well for that.

Blogger Beta INDY Blog

INDY Blog has now been upgraded to Blogger Beta. Have I ever mentioned that I love Google? I haven't?! Well, I guess I'll have to post about that at some point! Anyway, Blogger Beta has some features which I'm really looking forward to playing with. Labels for example; I'm hoping to try and tie labels into GPS some how. We'll see what I can pull off. Well, thanks for another great service, Google!

Starwars Robot Chicken - Google Video

I've known about this Starwars Robot Chicken video for a while and I absolutely love it, so I wanted to share it here as well.

USB Batteries?!

When I first saw these USBCell batteries on SlashDot today, I thought it had to be some sort of joke.



Unbelievably, it's no joke at all. These AA batteries recharge in a USB port. To quote Will Smith: "I gotta get me one of these!"

Cute Animal

This has got to be the cutest animal go the world.

Two Fun Bumper Stickers

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them.

INDY.CC and MSIE

I've made INDY.CC slightly more accessible to Microsoft Internet Explorer users. Their version of the site is riddled with ads and a constant message above and below the content about using a better browser.



I mainly made this decision based on statistics. It was getting depressing seeing how many MSIE user came to my site and then just left because their browser started freaking out. So I guess that leaves me supporting the enemy (kinda). Oh well. At least now some unfortunate family members and friends will now be able to view - in a limited way - the content they hear everyone else talking about.



Don't get me wrong though.... My judgement [link] still stands: MSIE is a pain in the asterisk.

For Sale with Owner

Sweet! If you buy this house you get a person too!

Our Brook is Quite Full

The water in our brook rose to this level with only a few minutes of rain.

Planets and Dwarf Planets

Well, it's official! Our solar system now has eight planets and a small handful of dwarf planets [wiki]. The IAU General Assembly 2006 Resolution has thus demoted Pluto [wiki] to dwarf planet status to sit alongside Ceres [wiki] and the yet unnamed 2003 UB₃₁₃.







I'm excited about this bit of news, as it presents an open view of our solar system. I'm slightly disappointed about where the resolution has left Charon [wiki] as a moon of Pluto, even though both Pluto and Charon orbit each other and together orbit the Sun.

I definitely welcome the new "dwarf planet" celestial body type, since the size and mannerisms between these and standard planets are so different. And, as I mentioned in my previous post on this subject, we're still the third planet from the Sun!