Carell Mocks Canada
Ah yes, this is exactly why I love the Daily Show archive, digging up gems like this one.
If you ever clicked on that South Park Mountie in the left hand column it will take you to a page all about this commercial that Steve Carell is mocking.
I’ve definetly added this video to the Mahalo ”I am Canadian” Archive.
CBC Coverage of the Sichuan Earthquake
In terms that Canadians will understand, the damage stretches from New Brunswick to Alberta, holy shit.
http://www.mahalo.com/Sichuan_Earthquake_2008
Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers
Barack Obama Responds
Bloddy bullshit.
Huffpost has much more
and in tribute I started a page on Mahalo for Prescott Bush, (Bush’s grandpa) an actual fucking Nazi. Feel free to help me complete it by adding links.
Dennis Leary on TDS
A great Interview involving two of my favourite people.
http://www.mahalo.com/Jon_Stewart
http://www.mahalo.com/Denis_Leary
Get to know your Global Food Crisis Profiteers
The Food Shortage is hard to keep track of, what with hurricanes, earthquakes and Hillary Clinton clogging up the airwaves, how can we find time to talk about this problem…or is it really a scandal?
Grain.org - Making a Killing from Hunger
It seems that nearly every corporate player in the global food chain is making a killing from the food crisis. The seed and agrochemical companies are doing well too. Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, reported a 44% increase in overall profits in 2007.[21] DuPont, the second-largest, said that its 2007 profits from seeds increased by 19%, while Syngenta, the top pesticide manufacturer and third-largest company for seeds, saw profits rise 28% in the first quarter of 2008.[22]
It doesn’t surprise me that Monsanto, possibly the Worlds most evil corporation, has something to do with global hunger.
Olbermann Special Comment
Olbermann is a great man of rants, check out more with this Videosift Tag
How to not Link to Yahoo News
If you have been around the Internet for long enough you realize that Yahoo News links die in a very short period of time.
Why? I dunno, I assume that Yahoo thinks the internet will run out of space. Or perhaps the deals they make with the new agencies only allow them to host stories for a short period of time. Regardless, when archiving internet links at Mahalo the last thing I want to do is add a Yahoo News link, because I know the link will die before the next person has an opportunity to click on it.
So… If you see a great news item on Yahoo News, that you think should be archived forever on Mahalo, here are the simple steps to make that link last longer.
1. Copy the Yahoo News Title
2. Paste that Title into Google
3. Find a more reliable source
So for example, today Mjlambie submitted this link about ASIMO the Honda robot. I wanted to add it to the ASIMO page, but I knew the link would die, I would hate for hte next visitor to the ASIMO page to click on a dead link, so I copy and pasted the link into google and found the original Associated Press news report for this story. I accepted Mjlambie’s link so he would have credit, but I tweaked the URL a little to provide a little bit more longevity to the link.
Human beats Robot again.
How Bill O’Reilly attracts Traffic
I have no idea how they count ratings in TV media, no idea. but I can easily see why Bill O’Reilly gets such high “ratings.”
It’s not because he offers quality journalism.
It could be because he attracts mostly old people and bored couch potatoes, the ones who mindlessly click around the TV until something stimulating flashes across the screen. In regards to TV ratings, how long do you have to sit idle on a TV show before you’re considered a “viewer?”
Fox News plays random sex and violence footage all the time, they find excuses to make crazy stuff news, “news” that makes you stop dead in your channel surf. For-Profit TV-Cable News is a scary beast, when you consider they willingly do what they do, propaganda artists like O’Reilly lure you in with interesting pictures, only to indoctrinate your mind with shoddy, sensational “journalism” full of dangerous lies. (Harmless to the individual, but potentially dangerous when you consider what Idiocracy looks like.)
Is that a healthy way to operate a news organization?
It’s hard for me to believe, that this guy, Bill O’Reilly was such a popular guy, one who spoke for the American people.
How deep exactly was the lunatic fringe in America for that a guy like this is considered a journalistic icon? Tell me his contract is over soon?
This is currently number 1 on Videosift, a quality submission from the theaceofclubz. People voted because it was an insane meltdown, to be honest it didn’t surprise me in the least, O’Reilly always looks pretty pissed off. No doubt there is even worse footage of Bill-O lying around somewhere, waiting to be found by another archivist. And when it is found it will spread the net like wildfire.
Wait until Olberman finds this clip.
via videosift.com
Sergio
I’ve started a page for Sergio Vieira de Mello, and added it to the To Do list. If you have any links to recommend it would be much appreciated. If not, no worries, just watch the clip and learn about this man.
This is a clip from the documentary No End In Sight.
New Blog Template
So I am still relatively new to wordpress and never really had the time to play around with the templates, so I made time the other night and plugged this one in. It’s not bad, it’s able to fit in everything I need, although I’m no sure if I’m sold on the look yet, so I’ll keep looking. But this template will certainly do for now.
Anyway, I was able to transfer over all my old blog posts. TayTV was pretty fucked up for awhile, it went through a lot of changes the last couple years it was online, and I am going through the archive post by post picking out all the dead videos. It’s a shame the number of dead videos. It looks like a copyright twister went through the archive, I would say about half of the old posts have been pulled.
TayTV morphed at a certain point from a video feed to more of a media blog and TayTV was fueled by the dedicated participation of many, Larry was one of those men, last I heard he was in Thailand. Back in September ‘06 he uploaded this great clip of Barack Obama back in ‘06 arguing against torture. A clip that I am happy to see wasn’t pulled. Also came across this Senator Barack comment on the “Oil Addiction” from back in 2006.
The blog template was designed by Brian Gardner, as you can see by the logos and the favicon, itwill serve as a momentary tribute to TayTV until I get my shit in gear over here. Not too sure why I am even attempting to maintain a blog while I work at Mahalo, but for some reason I think this blog might serve as a great tool to help me do my job better some day….patiences is key….but culling the archive.
The Sift- The Door To Hell
- TDS executive producer David Javerbaum talks with PBS
- Michael Moore Speaking about his F911 Sequel
- Sgt. Matthis Chiroux Refuses to be Deployed to Iraq
- Bush 2000 Debate
- Conyers on Iran attack: Impeachment "Should" be persued
- Bill Maher tells Larry David how he ruined America
- Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows
- The Media is not Challenging the War Drumbeat...Again
- BBC: Rumsfeld War Crimes
- Propeller
- Darvaz: The Door to Hell
- The Daily Show Is "Close to Journalistic in Nature"
- GE making changes to their appliance deptartment
- TDS David Javerbaum talks with FRONTLINE
- Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web - ReadWriteWeb
- YouTube - NYTimes.com - Cracking Down on Illegal Logging
- I give up, says Brazilian minister who fought to save the rainforest
- Another Manny Being Manny Moment | SOX & Dawgs
- YouTube - Mark Messier Retrospective -DayWalk3r
- Olbermann on Bush Giving up Golf
- Recommendations
- English Russia ‽ Darvaz: The Door to Hell
- Drugs are Cool | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
- YouTube - Obama Gets A VERY Special Endorsement
- YouTube - Conyers threatens to arrest Rove
- YouTube - Survivor Road China Earthquake
- YouTube - Everywoman - The veil - 16 May 08 - Part 1
- Did Bush attack Obama in Israel?
- FRONTLINE: News War (excerpt) VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control
- Bill O'Reilly Inside Edition | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central
- YouTube - KO Countdown ; OReilly 08-05-12 : Long Lost Rant
- Shouting Heads: Bill O'Reilly Meltdown Resurfaces
- O'Reilly Tries To Laugh Off "Inside Edition" Meltdown - Media on The Huffington Post
- YouTube - Bill O'Reilly Flips Out DANCE REMIX
- GRAIN | "Against the grain" | 2008 | Making a killing from hunger
- YouTube - Larry David in the opening: Real Time with Bill Maher
- msnbc.com video: Special comment on Bushs unforgiveable interview
- Bush quits golf in solidarity with Iraq dead
- YouTube - Bush Gives Up Golf For The Troops
- Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!" - Media on The Huffington Post
- YouTube - George Learns He Shouldn't Golf While Soldiers Die