who's watching? Love it? Me not sure yet.

COLORADO (The Borowitz Report) - Moments after a little boy who was believed to be in his parents' homemade helium balloon was found safe and sound, millions of Americans came to the realization that they had flushed the entire fucking afternoon down the fucking toilet.

"I watched the entire drama unfold and then it turned out that no drama had unfolded," said Carol Foyler, 32, of Missoula, Montana. "I can't tell you how pissed I am at that fucking kid."

At their Colorado home, the parents of six-year-old Falcon Heene said that they were relieved that their son was all right and that they were pushing forward with their plans to build a giant child-operated flame-throwing robot.

(This Post Borrowed from the author, Andy Borowitz)

Some requests to those who post content from Comedy Central - especially 'popular' clips like those featured on The Daily Show & The Colbert Report:

1) Comedy Central is *blocked. Until vids submitted from Comedy Central are automatically tagged with the *blocked invocation, please take the 0.5 seconds and do it yourself.

2) Please post the original date of broadcast in the description. This makes it easier for Canucks to search and find content for The Daily Show (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes) or The Colbert Report (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-colbert-report/full-episodes/)

3) If a fellow Canadian does seek out and watch the clip in question, take an additional 3 seconds and post the link in a comment so others can bask in its visual glory.

Thanks =)

i'm approaching the last couple of series now, and i just wanted to thank sifters for introducing me to this show.

it has given me many LOLs

Mad Men is hands down one of the best shows ever to be aired and here's why I can't recommend it enough:

via Daniel O'Brien's blog on Cracked.com

"Statistically speaking, you’re not watching Mad Men, and the fact that season three premiers on Sunday likely has no affect on you. I’m here, out of the kindness of my heart, to gently explain to you why you’re wrong, and why you’re a bad person for doing the things you do. Watch Mad Men. Watch the shit out of it.... more inside ...

"'We are thrilled to have our incredible cast back. The call has already gone out to the animators to put the mouths back on the characters,' Futurama creators Groening and David X. Cohen said in a joint statement."

Source: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/674841

So, YAY.

There are now one thousand video submissions with the tag *media.
Is it time for a dedicated channel for this hot topic?

There are a number of popular shows that air on television that frequently make it on the sift and are region blocked --notably, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Since the commentary of the hosts and content of the show is news based, it might be handy for those in region-blocked countries (Canada, other countries...) if the date of the episode was included in their descriptions for others to find in mirrored sites of country specific sites like thecomedynetwork.ca or other sources.

Though posting dates are always available, I thought this courtesy might also be useful with many news videos as well.

Thoughts?

Yeah, so I'm pretty excited.

It looks like Comedy Central has ordered yet another 13 episodes of Futurama, which we all love.

Source: http://www.collider.com/2009/06/07/exclusive-comedy-central-goes-back-to-the-futurama/

Edit: It's now official, but it's Fox Themselves that are bringing it back. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14375/-futurama-gets-26-new-episodes

26 episodes of Molten Boron.

A while back, it seemed that the only thing that was holding up an "Arrested Development" movie was Michael Cera's involvement. Since then, Cera (Superbad) has confirmed that he will come onboard, but things are still not going anywhere.
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Fair warning: Spoilers Ahead. Stop reading if you don't want to find out things about the end of the series.

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I guess it's fair to say the show didn't quite answer all of the questions they left floating around.

What we do know:
1) All of the trials and tribulations of the colonies happened about 150,000 years ago, local time.
2) "God" has nearly identical humans at different levels of evolution on different planets throughout the universe.
3) The hallucinations of Baltar and Caprica Six (of one another) were really angels or some shit.
4) What made Hera so important was that she was at the middle of the ceasefire then emergency jump to New Earth.
5) Everyone on Earth today is an offspring of Cylons and humans.
6) The centurions are flying around in the universe somewhere with vastly superior technology than we currently possess.
7) Bob Dylan ripped off a song implanted in the brains of the Final Five at least 152,000 years ago.
8) What else?

What we still don't know:
1) WTF Starbuck was when she returned. Was she a ghost that everyone could see, hear, touch, and feel? Was her ship the same?
2) Why was Starbuck repeatedly called the harbinger of death if she actually sent everyone to this lush green planet to repopulate humanity?
3) Was Starbuck's father really Daniel, the last Cylon "child" created by the final five? If so, was her mother human? How did they successfully breed?
4) Why did old Earth have the same view of the same constellations as are visible from new Earth?
5) Where did the original colonies colonize from?
6) What else?

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Overall, I take the finale at face value. It's nice that they found New Earth, saw an end of the human-Cylon war, and were able to live in peace without shelter or technology for the rest of their lives. It wasn't a completely fulfilling ending, but at least they tried. Right?

It has been brought to my attention that my video Top Gear: Communist Cars [http://www.videosift.com/video/Top-Gear-Communist-Cars] is dead (thanks EDD). There's a live and complete version of the video at StreetFire [http://videos.streetfire.net/video/190-Top-Gear-Communist_205207.htm] but my star isn't shiny enough to use it. Can any friendly gold star members help me out?

Right now I’m looking to buy a new HDTV. I want it to be an LCD version with a 46” (117 cm) screen, and I want it to be able to stream video wirelessly from my PC. I have no problem buying an inexpensive dongle or similar hardware to connect it to my wireless network, if that is what it will take. I really don’t want to spend more than $1500 or so. Of course I want it to have a great picture too.

Can any of you suggest a good model, or at least point out features that I should be looking for and/or features to ignore in my purchase? I’ve been doing my own research already, but I’m finding it difficult to determine what features will suit me the best. I mostly watch movies on my TV, and I rarely watch TV otherwise. I'd like to take advantage of streaming video from Netflix or Blockbuster. Also, what is the minimum connection speed you should have to stream video without difficulty? My internet connection right now is 1.5 Mbps. Is that enough, or will it be too slow?

An interesting little article in the New York Times today about slicing up back libraries of TV shows for serving on the web. This is going to be massive when the networks realize the full money making and promotional ability of their vast back catalogs. Hulu is just a drop in the bucket.

My favorite Star Trek bad guy passed away today.. He was known for much more than that though:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15,0,4189863.story

Let's go sift a couple up for Mr. Montalban. RIP

I posted a video of the Price is Right yesterday, and now it is nowhere to be found. Not only that, but the same video was posted by another sifter.

Where did my video go?

(Duplicate video here - http://www.videosift.com/video/First-Contestant-to-Win-Both-Showcases-Since-1972)

http://www.videosift.com/video/Star-Wars-Holiday-Special
It was once abandoned and denied by it's creator. Before the digital age it was loved and passed on by fans in conventions. We've given it a home all these years...

Now the moron wants to take it back. Maybe out of shame? Maybe he's going to make some crappy sequels. Who gives a shit. It's ours damn him!

Now I see it in parts on YT.. Can someone do the piggy back thing so we can have the complete show on our Christmas list?

Who else here enjoys TV programs such as Colossal Construction and other large scale construction shows? I love 'em, it's the mix of extreme engineering, master coordination, hard work, and ingenuity.

Um...I find myself watching TV, seeing something stupid, looking down at my laptop and searching for somewhere I can leave a comment.

YOU can come to the after hours party.



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