CURIOUS INDEX, 5/17/08
by Orson on Jun 17, 2008 9:04 AM EDT
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We shall stuff sandbags with cease and desist letters. The Des Moines Register, clearly not busy doing anything else like covering biblical flooding threatening to engulf the major population centers of the state, took time out of their day to send a cease and desist letter to Black Heart Gold Pants for using this video to show the severity of the Iowa flooding before asking their readers to donate to a flood relief fund. We'll take our c and d letter extra-spicy, Ms. Hickman! You know, with the fancy ketchup. BHGP has their story here, Peter explains some of the finer legal points here; Holly points out that the paper sent the c and d letter despite offering the embed code on its site. Revisiting the letter.... As the copyright owner of that video, The Des Moines Register has the exclusive right to its reproduction and distribution. ...unless you give the goddamn embed code to put the video on any blog anywhere on the internet on your site. Streisand effect, work your magic! Oh, and for Ms. Hickman's bedside table we recommend Walter Benjamin's seminal work The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Uh, we mean: we're bloggers! Can't read! Suck it, mainstream media type! YEAH! Baba-BOOOOIEEE RULZ! A FAT raise! Get it! Phil Fulmer gets a fat raise, according to the Tennessean via the Wiz, and says he's good for eight to ten years more as the head coach at Tennessee. Hear that? He's good to go for eight to ten more years, meaning he's telling you how long he wants to be there. Almost like Joe Paterno, really, if you multiplied the mass times eight and the national titles by two. Jim Delany likes his coffee like he likes his women: bitter, cold, and expensive. Kevin over at Fanblogs says Delany and the Big Ten Network got heaping braised slices of their own ass handed to them by Comcast in the final negotiations surrounding their contentious, three-years-plus tussle over how many households would see the network at what price. The exact phrasing, though: Now... I don't know about you but where I come from, having left $8.5 million dollars per year on the table isn't just losing on a deal, it's getting your sweet pale @ss handed to you by a beast. The bitter won't bother Delany, though. He'll keep his chin up as long as he's got his standard lunch of infant bones and field greens waiting for him, followed up by the requisite administering of the afternoon paper cuts and lemon juice chasers for the interns. The small things keep one sane, you know. Coming soon: geeks burning very nice sofas in a controlled fashion. The possible road jerseys for Michigan are carbon copies of West Virginia's road jerseys. Michigan fans to burn couches in controlled fashion, drink eighty dollar bottles of aged whiskey with abandon, and to cheer for new sideline mascot in orange puffy hunting vest with high-powered deer rifle, "The U.P. Militiaman." No similarities intended. Resurgence; we can see it. If this is who Randy Shannon is recruiting, Da U may rise again: Senior Zach Kane, 18, of Bay View Drive was at a party about 11 p.m. Saturday when he broke a bottle over the head of a fellow teen, causing serious injuries which required at least nine stitches, Police Chief Michael G. Mastronardy said. That's how you do it in the 305, son. One note though: a Miami player from Jersey? Is this a reverse Schiano dynamic in practice? |
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as a person will little to no connection to iowa, flooding in iowa, or the iowa hawkeyes (other than ops’ fine work on this site), that is possibly the dumbest fucking thing i’ve ever heard.
by gerry dorsey on Jun 17, 2008 9:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Re: Miami and Zach Kane…
…Miami fans have been mocking RU recently, asking how we could let one of the best linebackers in Jersey slip away without ever even offering him… well it looks like Schiano just knew he’d be a better fit for Da U.
For the record, this kid was thrown out of 4 varsity football games during his high school career. Absolute psycho…
by Dave K. on Jun 17, 2008 9:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Jim Delany is going to rival Gary Bettman for ‘worst commissioner evah’ award.
by Crabapple Buck on Jun 17, 2008 9:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I can see a Michigan fan just skipping the sofa all together and going straight to the Pottery Barn catalog for use in a rather tasteful chimenea. It would add a nice bit of accent to the wonderful scent of the pinion wood.
by them oklahoma on Jun 17, 2008 9:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Welcome back Orson, was the third world good to you?
by John on Jun 17, 2008 9:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Shouldn’t the national titles be divided be two?
by DanF on Jun 17, 2008 9:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
- - …this kid was thrown out of 4 varsity football games during his high school career. Absolute psycho
It is good to see Miami returning to their old form. We were a little concerned.
by blon57 on Jun 17, 2008 9:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Welcome back O:
Hope you and the Mrs enjoyed yourselves on your vaca to the only member of the UN’s list of the Least Developed Islands of the Savanah River Delta.
by needanewname on Jun 17, 2008 9:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Fulmer at UT for another decade? Thank you, God!
by MorningBeer on Jun 17, 2008 9:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Appropriately wrapped in burlap, both Kathy Hickman and Jim Delaney would make good sandbags — and in each case it would be a higher and better use of their professional time.
by DevilGrad on Jun 17, 2008 9:59 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, if there’s one thing the Big Ten is experts at, it’s getting their sweet pale asses handed to them. Delaney was just playing to his strengths.
by Doug on Jun 17, 2008 10:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Orson,
can you write a Dickrod mockup of you denying that you are interested in/going for the Deadspin job? This is your one chance to pretend that you’re a college football coach and you can totally screw everyone over while accepting wads ($3) of cash for a new job!! You have to do it!
by Big Lund on Jun 17, 2008 10:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Recognizing of course that Delaney is persona non grata in these parts, FanHouses’ and MgoBlog’s Brian seems to think the Big Ten won.
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/06/16/big-ten-network-comcast-deal-to-be-announced-this-week/
Many people (inaccurately?) question the Big Ten’s on-the-field performance, but the conference does quite well in the boardroom. I’d wait for the details before declaring a winner.
by maskedavenger on Jun 17, 2008 10:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
U.P. Militiamen? They’re all militiamen up there Orson. Their chief export is pasties (the meat pie, not the boob covering), and they’re actively planning their succession from the U.S. You’ve been warned, Mackinaw bridge.
by Ground0EastLansing on Jun 17, 2008 10:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Greg Olsen, G-Reg of the 7th floor crew , is also originally from New Jersey.
by Shane on Jun 17, 2008 10:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
If the UP ever does leave the US, it’ll take six months before anyone outside of the Northern lower peninsula even notices.
by dex on Jun 17, 2008 10:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Walter Benjamin referenced on a football blog! I don’t think I’ve ever been prouder of my fellow man. Well done sir.
The whole essay’s here if you’ve got time and, like me, totally get off on this nerdy, art-philosophy stuff.
by carlinthemarlin on Jun 17, 2008 10:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The Des Moines Register is owned by the Gannett company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannett_Company
Also owned by The Gannett Company are:
USA Today
USA Weekend
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis)
The Enquirer (Cincinnati)
The Tennessean (Nashville)
The Courier-Journal (Louisville)
The Honolulu Adviser
The Detroit Free Press
If anyone’s going to stop frequenting the Des Moines Register, might as well broaden that to include all of Gannett’s holdings.
by zinzarin on Jun 17, 2008 10:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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I saw where Krispy Kreme stock is making a comeback.
Coincidence? I think not.
by yoyofutbawl on Jun 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This was a misunderstanding. I apologize on behalf of The Des Moines Register. Simply an employee trying to do their job but not completely understanding our new technology (we recently got embed code on our videos).
Chris Snider
DesMoinesRegister.com
by Chris Snider on Jun 17, 2008 11:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I just emailed the editor of the Des Moine Register – calling them idiots. This is the response I just received.
“This was all a misunderstanding on our part. I have sent a message to the author of the blog telling him we were wrong. Our policy was never updated to reflect our new technology.
Thanks for helping bring this to our attention."
by hobeg8r on Jun 17, 2008 11:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The paper posted this in BHGP’s comment section:
This was a misunderstanding. I apologize on behalf of The Des Moines Register. Simply an employee trying to do their job but not completely understanding our new technology (we recently got embed code on our videos). I take full responsibility for not making this clear to everyone on staff.
Chris Snider
Assistant Managing Editor/Digital
DesMoinesRegister.com
by maskedavenger on Jun 17, 2008 11:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Regardless of the apology, I understand how these things happen. With the law, when you allow one instance, you have to open the flood gates to everything. That is why things looks so stupid on a case by case basis, but I don’t think the law looks at that way. If you allow it once, you always have to allow videos on every blog or whatever.
I guess that I also why I am a NCAA apologist.
by meatybob on Jun 17, 2008 1:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The paper posted this in EDSBS’s comment section:
This was a misunderstanding. I apologize on behalf of The Des Moines Register. Simply an employee trying to do their job but not completely understanding our new technology (we recently got embed code on our videos).
Chris Snider
DesMoinesRegister.com
by redundant on Jun 17, 2008 1:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Redundant -
The EDSBS comment manager has feature that it will hold comments from new IP addresses until Orson has had the opportunity to ok them. When that approval occurs the comment is put in the order it was received. Which explains why my earlier comment appears unnecessary the paper’s had not been approved when mine was entered.
Defensiveness aside, I did find your comment to be funny.
by maskedavenger on Jun 17, 2008 3:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
UP Rocks. Michigan Tech is easily one of the best 100 teams in Div 2.
by Captain Kirk on Jun 17, 2008 6:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Best wishes to the Hawkeye Nation, and ZOMG Benjamin! Sweet! And eff the Des Moines Register.
by Fesser on Jun 17, 2008 8:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
#23
Wow, great choice of words…. Pun intended?
by matt on Jun 17, 2008 9:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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