Day: April 23, 2010

High Dupefactor

There are a lot of commercials for High Definition TV on regular TV these days. These commercials try to sell us on the idea of the much higher image quality of HDTV. Is it just me, or is that the same as advertizing CD audio through a bullhorn?

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Something Smells Of Fish

In the news today: In Rotterdam harbour, seven containers full of whale meat have been waiting for transshipment for over three weeks now. The Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Mrs. Verburg, described the situation as “highly unpleasant”. (Of course, Verburg was referring to the bizarre discrepancy between the international ban on whaling and the regular transshipment […]

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