MTVu Uber and YouTube launched within a month of each other with almost the same goal: get communities to build channels of their own video content. Obviously, MTVu Uber has done much better because they crippled their site and content with DRM. Look what happens when someone posts an MTVu video to Fark. "MTV's reign is Über. Über = over, in English. [...] No Firefox? No OS X Access? fark you, MTVU."
What makes funny? with the very funny Jimmy Carr. "A professional comic's routine may be based on true personal experience, but real experience doesn't tend to come conveniently complete with a punchline. That's why most comics are outrageous liars."
Much like its venture into music sales, Starbucks makes a good bookstore. Or at least a profitable one. "Starbucks has sold 45,000 copies of Mitch Albom's novel For One More Day (Hyperion) since it went on sale at the chain October 3, a week after the book reached bookstores. The figure accounts for roughly 12% of a total of 391,000 copies sold, as tabulated by Nielsen BookScan." [via ArtsJournal]
The New York Review of Books forces us to reexamine our definition of theocracy. "Bush told various evangelical groups that he felt God had called him to run for president in 2000: 'I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.'" [via A&L Daily]
