Joost invites

Chris Lanier is giving away Joost invites on his blog.  All you have to do is reply to his post and/or blog about it and you have a chance to win an invite.  This is my entry, but you can click here to find out more and enter for yourself.

For those who don't know what Joost is, it's a peer-to-peer TV download service created by the same guys who did Skype. Supposedly, it will revolutionize television.

But will it play on my Xbox Media Center Extender?

A good first step

Someone else notices the too-chummy relationship between the Washington press corps and the people they're supposed to be covering, as manifest by the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Tucked inside Frank Rich's Sunday column in the New York Times is indication that the newspaper will no longer play ball with the annual White House Correspondents Association dinners in Washington, which he calls "a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era." He writes that the event "illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows....

"After last weekend's correspondents' dinner, The Times decided to end its participation in such events," wrote Rich. "But even were the dinner to vanish altogether, it remains but a yearly televised snapshot of the overall syndrome. The current White House, weakened as it is, can still establish story lines as fake as 'Mission Accomplished' and get a free pass."

Source: Editor & Publisher

For once, I'm glad I don't live or work in San Francisco

 Another day, another bridge collapse...

Bay Area residents began potentially their worst commute in almost two decades Monday, a day after one of the region’s most traveled sections of freeway melted and collapsed following a fiery crash.

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Transportation officials said it could take months to repair the damaged interchanges, and advised motorists to use public transportation in and out of San Francisco. They added trains to the rail system, and bus and ferry operators also expanded service.

There's a "ferries in San Francisco" joke in here somewhere, but you won't hear it from me.

Source: MSNBC.com