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From New York Times:

President Drops in on ‘Deal or No Deal’

That night, the NBC game show bore an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Weitz’s satirical film “American Dreamz.” In both the television show and the movie, a president with low approval ratings decides to appear on a popular reality show. In the film, which was released on April 21, 2006, Dennis Quaid played the commander in chief. On the game show, aired on April 21, 2008, President Bush played himself.

Mr. Bush was not lucky for NBC, either, as the “Deal or No Deal” episode delivered 10 million viewers, matching its lowest Monday time slot rating.

Call me crazy, but I think this is way better than O Archduke.

The new Hot Chip album comes out next week. I’ve already pre-order my copy on iTunes. I found this video a while back. It really appeals to the nerd in me. It should be obvious who Alexis, the lead singer, is dressed as, but in case you miss the reference, the line “You’re my number one guy” is a line that Jack Palance’s character says to Jack Nicholson’s character (a.k.a. the Joker) before he has Jack (Napier) set up to be killed by a dirty cop, only to be horribly disfigured by Batman. Of course, the actual line was “You are my number one guy.” But perhaps I’m being to nitpicky. The video is pretty sick //

Fox news has decided to try and trivialize one of the most important elections in U.S. history. On Sunday, Fox will merge it’s coverage of the Super Bowl between two teams I don’t really care about (but maybe some of you do) with their coverage of Super Tuesday, the day that 22 states hold their primaries to nominate a candidate to run for the President of the United States in November.

Fox has already trivialized the democratic process. It was Fox News that first erroneously declared W the president in 2000. Most television news organizations followed suit, only to retract when they realized that it was still to close to call. The damage had already been done, and Bush sued his way into the White House.

But, I’m cynical. I’m sure Fox wont try to inject their bias politics into their coverage of the biggest annual television event.

My favorite part of this article is the discussion of the trend, noting how CNN will follow suit with “Ballot Bowl,” and how NBC has already “spiced up its football broadcasts with Keith Olbermann…who brought along the form, if not quite the ideological content, of his cable show.” Of course, Keith Olbermann was a sportscaster at ESPN before he came to MSNBC, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with NBC’s decision.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann is definitely my favorite news show. I studied journalism through high school and college, and he’s the only prime-time news anchor that does things right. He’s described as progressive, though some say that’s a smoke screen for the word liberal (I don’t agree that they are one in the same). Basically, he’s the anti-Bill O’Reilly. He’s dedicated to making sure the facts are correct, and he apologizes when he or anyone on his program makes a mistake.

Anyway, his show is online here. Countdown is broken up into segments, the 5 top stories of the day, and a few interstitials. If you click on a segment, it will play the selected one, and then cycle through the other stories. You pretty much get the whole show. I highly suggest you check it out. It’s a great news show, and it’s a good way to distribute the content using Flash.

Good night, and good luck.

Last night I watched Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report for the first time since the writer’s strike began. Both of these shows came back on air without their writers, and it’s pretty evident. The segments felt sort of uncomfortable to watch. The dialog was definitely not as sharp, and in particular, Stephen Colbert’s interview with Mike Huckabee relied too heavily on a very rough edit.

“Comedy Central forcing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on the air will not give the viewers the quality shows they’ve come to expect,” the Writers Guild of America West said in a statement.

I found that quote here earlier, in an article written about 3 weeks ago. It’s dead on. So, support the writer’s strike. Please. Watching those shows last night was like being on an awkward date.

I’m not exactly sure what to make of this game. It completely fits Nintendo’s casual gameplay style (which is becoming more and more popular these days, I mean, my 6 year old nephew has a D.S. Lite). Could be fun. I’ve been playing Super Mario Galaxy recently. It’s super fun. I’m not big into simulations though.

For those with the stomach, here’s the 9 min version that shows the gameplay uninterrupted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVdf-_f2onw&feature=related