Archive for May 17th, 2005

Detroit Free Press: We’ll Check Facts After We Publish

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Recently Mitch Albom was caught writing about things that never happened in the Detroit Free Press. He also used quotes and other information from newspapers, TV programs, and other sources without crediting the source. The newspaper conducted a lengthy investigation into the entire mess and ended up disciplining Albom and a couple of other writers [...]

George Lucas Is A Moron

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Apparently, George Lucas thinks George W. Bush is the current-day equivalent of Darth Vader: “In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,” Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. “The parallels between what we did in [...]

Quicktime and Forced Software Installs

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

I recently had to install QuickTime to play some content from a blog I was visiting. When I went to the Apple download site to get it, I discovered that in order to get QuickTime, you also had to download iTunes. No problem, I thought, when I do the install, I’ll choose custom and then [...]

Olbermann: Liberal Crackpot De Jour

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Looks like Andy Rooney, Dan Rather, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone have a new member for their conspiracy club: Keith Olbermann. Or would somebody rather play politics with this? The way Craig Crawford reconstructed it, this one went similarly to the way the Killian Memos story evolved at the White House. The news organization turns [...]