Dust and Light in the Rosette Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Nicolas Outters
NASA’s Webb telescope: Revolutionary design, runaway costs. The $8.8-billion Webb Space Telescope promises to provide a glimpse at the first light in the universe. But its spiraling cost may push NASA into a new era of austerity.
Photo: Specialists work on the sun shield for the James Webb Space Telescope at Northop Grumman Corp. in Redondo Beach. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
When asked why The Bodyguard was pulled from Netflix streaming following Whitney Houston’s death, Dan McDermott got the following response from a Netflix rep:
I just went and talked to my main supervisor as to why the movie had been pulled and the reason it was pulled was the production company pulled the streaming rights from us because all the publicity after Whitney Houston’s passing there was an opportunity to make really a very large amount of money on the DVD sales of her movies. So they’re going to pull all the streaming titles we have of Whitney Houston so they can make more money off the DVD sales of her movies.
What fucking scumbags. Not Netflix, which sadly has no control over situations like this, but the movie studio.
It seems like Hollywood is eyeing two business models in order to preserve their precious DVD sales (which are tanking more each day):
1) Make it basically impossible to rent a film. It used to be that you could rent a movie the day it came out for sale on DVD. Then it was 30 days later. Now it’s 56 days later. And you can’t even think about renting the films for 28 days.
As a reminder, torrents currently have no such window.
2) Hope and pray that big time stars die to temporarily boost sales. And instead of doing everything in you power to ensure that fans have easy access to remember the stars they cherished, pull all access except for the most expensive and limited variety in order to maximize profits.
Two recent cartoons illustrate your exact point here - see this:
http://www.cagle.com/2012/02/whintey/
and this:
http://www.cagle.com/2012/02/hollywood-pills/
What Would Peg Do?
Wear green earrings, a green necklace, a green bracelet, and a green top. No wonder the green-logoed Hulu chose to carry the show…
(Click image for full resolution!;)
http://www.hulu.com/marriedwith-children
This is big news, and let me be the first to say that THIS. IS. AWESOME.
For real:
USA TODAY: Nintendo Wii adds Hulu Plus
MSNBC: Hulu Plus finally arrives on the Wii
TechCrunch: Hulu Plus Finally Arrives On The Wii
Mashable: Hulu Plus Now on Wii Coming to Nintendo 3DS Later This Year
VentureBeat: Hulu Plus lands on Nintendo Wii, 3DS support coming soon
Engadget: Nintendo Wii joins the Hulu Plus watch party
CNET: It’s Wii time for Hulu Plus
The Verge: Hulu Plus for Wii available for download now
PC Magazine: Hulu Plus Added to Nintendo Wii
SlashGear: Nintendo Wii gets Hulu Plus
Ubergizmo: Hulu Plus on the Nintendo Wii
DigitalTrends: Hulu Plus arrives on the Nintendo Wii, coming soon on the 3DS
Home Media Magazine: Nintendo Inks SVOD Deal With Hulu Plus
StreamingMedia: Hulu Plus Moves to the Nintendo Wii
Turbo Outrun for the SEGA Megadrive (1992)
WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
And a bit of history:
> The cover of “California Highways” magazine in fall 1964 shows state engineers posting the new shield at Point Mugu. The same year, the Legislature by state law named Highway 1 “Pacific Coast Highway” in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and “Cabrillo Highway” from San Luis Obispo north to San Francisco.<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_1
I would think that there are more Ferrari F40’s on the Pacific Coast Highway than on any other road in America.
Along the bottom edge, it looks a lot like the famous Eagle Nebula ‘Pillars of Creation’ photographed by the Hubble in 1995. The Hubble website has a fantastically written and highly informative profile of the pillars:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/44/image/a/
Wikipedia article on the Eagle Nebula:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula
Current traffic to the article (14,507 so far this month) -
http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Eagle_Nebula
And the Wikipedia article for the Pillars of Creation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
Current traffic to the article - even more than the other! (20,703 so far this month) -
http://stats.grok.se/en/201202/Pillars_of_creation
hulu:
In honor of Hulu’s new spokesalien Will Arnett, let’s learn the dance that made him famous! Caw ca caw, caw ca caw, caw ca caw, caw ca caw!
Will Arnett in Hulu’s Super Bowl XLVI Ad. #mushymush
