Thursday, July 21, 2005

I never thought I'd see it coming--I never thought I'd ever know

Pimp your name. First try. Snake Eyes C. Slither. Second time Vicious D. C. Smooth. Nice.

Lebowski Fest. They Might Be Giants are playing in KY. Not sure if Naught will be there but I might.

LHIOB.

A few cartoons by Mr. Fish.

this is pretty cool. Google Maps get a guy out of a ticket.

Pick up the baseball bat and hit that crazy frog.

Vid. 7 words you can't say in Kindergarten. Yes they are the bad ones so be careful when and where you open. The punch line is pretty good.

Legal downloading times three.

Taking on iPod via Wired. and kinda iTunes news. A new worm pretends to be from iTunes.

Rare Beethoven online.

Rhino to release 2004 ACL fest CD.

Google Moon. Zoom all the way in.

Adverts for Durex condoms...that's right condoms so by clicking I am sure you know what you are getting yourself into. Nothing too bad though.

The End is near people: the key part is in bold.
By Derek Caney Reuters
News Corp. (NYSE:NWS - news) on Monday said it would buy Intermix Media Inc.(AMEX:MIX - news), owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for$580 million in a move to expand the media conglomerate's Internet offerings.
The deal comes after News Corp., home to the Fox television network, Fox Newsand 20th Century Fox film studios, announced on Friday the creation of anInternet division to hold the company's sports, news and entertainment sites.
News Corp. will pay $12 a share, a 12 percent premium over Intermix's closingprice on the American Stock Exchange on Friday. Intermix shares rose 9.5percent to $11.74 in Monday trading.
"For a company with a market capitalization of over $50 billion and $6 billionin cash on their balance sheet, to pay $580 million for the fifth most widelyviewed domain, that strikes me as reasonable," said Natexis Bleichroederanalyst Alan Gould.
"With a significant amount of advertising dollars moving from traditionaloutlets to online, News Corp., like most media companies, is looking to boostits Internet assets," Gould added.
Online advertising is expected to be the fastest growing category for nationaladvertisers, up 15 percent to $7.9 billion this year, according to media buyingfirm Universal McCann.
MySpace.com is the most popular of the once-trendy social networking sites,which allow people with common interests to seek dates, friendship andprofessional relationships.
Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news), for its part, has a social networking sitecalled Orkut. Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) has made social networking a partof its Yahoo 360 networking tool.
"The thing about MySpace is that it's a growing audience," said JupiterResearch analyst David Card. "Its users are pretty loyal. They get a lot oft ime spent on their pages. And the personal information they get from users ispretty reliable because they want to meet people. One would think thisinformation would be pretty useful to advertisers."
Intermix, which had $24.1 million in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, willbecome part of News Corp.'s newly created Fox Interactive Media.

the title is from the stompy bluesy rock and roll of the Black Rebel Motorcylce Club. the tune is "shuffle your feet" from the soon to be released Howl. You can get the tune on iTunes and you should. Feed your need for R-n-R.

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