Welcome to your daily Open Thread. Only two days til the weekend! When the weather will be better!
Lots of you read the Daily Kos, but this post on the media being reduced to Sarah Palin paparazzi is priceless! Inspired by this post from the NYT blog, it is heartening to see that people are taking note of the fact that Sarah Palin causes the media to lose their collective minds:
It was a surreal situation given the fact that Ms. Palin and her advisers had shown an almost complete contempt for the press corps and its usual rituals. But the grumbling among the press corps notwithstanding, reporters and camera crews continued to follow her across three states and hundreds of miles over the long holiday weekend.
This is the woman who kept accusing Barack Obama of being no more than a celebrity wannabe, and here she is, years later, working on her celebrity cred. She never added anything to the political discussion, but to see the so-called serious media report on what she is wearing or what her bus looks like or just report on the Waiting for Sarah isn’t exactly helping anyone trust the media any more than they do. Which brings me to a question that I debated with some friends last night — if a Sarah Palin sex tape was discovered, how fast do you think the media and networks would drop all of their “family” standards to play every minute of it?
Amazon rolled out its Cloud Drive, Google rolled out its Music Beta, and Apple is rolling out its iCloud service next week. Are any of you using these or even paying attention to these services? I’m curious about what the pros and cons of this really are. My recent digital music purchases from Amazon have offered me the chance to keep my purchases on the Cloud Drive, which sounds OK, except that I need it to be on my iPod and don’t know if this works. I’m nervous about not having physical possession of what I just bought too. So tell us what you think about these services if you are using them.
For fun, there’s *this* report of a study that finds that men rewear their underwear on vacation:
According to a new survey by the British travel agency, Sunshine, the average man packs just three-pair of underwear for a week-long trip. The average woman? Well she packs 10.
The survey also found the average man says he wears 98 percent of the stuff he packs. I’m thinking that if he’s only packing three pair of tighty whities underwear for 7 days, there must be some serious rewearing going on.
There’s alot going on in the world, so drop us some links on what interests you today.