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I was going to post a rant about TBS interrupting my “Family Guy” reruns in a pathetic attempt to advertise the “Bill Engvall Show” but Jason Kottke did a fine job of it:
They paused the TV show, ran a little mini-commercial for some show that no one cares about, and then returned to the last two seconds of the segment before going to commercial.
Not only did they do this just a few seconds before going to an actual commercial, they did this in the middle of the show as well.
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Not normally a movie critic, I don’t listen to movie critics… I prefer to see the movie and make my own conclusion and let others make theirs. Movies are art and therefore subject to one’s individual interpretation… I determined a long time ago that it’s pointless to try to convince someone a movie is good or a movie is bad, doesn’t mean I don’t try though…
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Watched National Geographic’s “Six Degrees Could Change the World” last night (actual air date was Sunday) which was all well and good, really nothing new. If you’ve seen “An Inconvenient Truth” or have not been in a hole for the past few years it goes over the same climate changes and doomsday scenarios we could face if global warming is curtailed. Of course there was an emphasis on breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, clean energy and conservation. The irony of the program was the commercials - I didn’t count but I’m pretty sure just about every single commercial break had a Hummer ad. So on one side we have National Geographic telling us if we don’t do something about global warming the world is going to change for the bad and on the other National Geographic is allowing the peddling one of the most obnoxious, fossil fuel dependent cars on the road.
This seems like a bad move on Hummer’s part more than anything, did they seriously expect people to go out and buy a Hummer after watching a program like “Six Degrees Could Change the World”? Were they not clear on the premise of the show?
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I had assumed that we lived in a day and age where companies realized that Internet Explorer isn’t the only browser people are using. Apparently, I was wrong. Every single time I tried a search or clicked on any link on the Barnes & Noble site I was greeted with a blank page (except for the header) in Firefox, preforming the same search in Internet Explorer worked without a hitch. It’s a sad day when I have to go to Internet Explorer to access a site…
Dear Barnes & Noble,
I have browsed your site using Firefox in the past without issue, but today when trying to preform a search on your site for a book (or clicking on any link) all I received was a blank page (minus the header graphic). I tried clearing the cache in Firefox and refreshing the page, but your site continued to pee on my book browsing fun fire. I opened Internet Explorer (7) and your site worked without incident. I understand that this is likely due to some recent update to your site (I see you already have the Christmas decorations out) but you should realize that there are a lot of us out here (36.0%) that use Firefox which isn’t some willy-nilly, fly by night browser but rather a well established (36.0%) alternative to Internet Explorer. You should be testing your site to insure that it works with Firefox as well as Internet Explorer (testing compatibility in other browsers is a good idea as well).
The Borders website works just fine in Firefox - they got my money.
Sincerely,
Adam
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