ITEM: Sesame Workshop has struck a five-year deal with HBO that will bring first-run episodes of Sesame Street exclusively to HBO and its streaming outlets starting in the fall.

The interwub is duly freaking out and making jokes about Sesame Street having tons more sex, violence and naughty words.


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Like a BOSS.


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There is a lot of dithering about the TPP, which Presidente Obama just failed to get fast-track authority for.

And it has to be said, you know something may not be a good idea when Elizabeth Warren and Carly Fiorina both agree it’s a bad idea (albeit for different reasons).

But then, what’s to like?

The TPP isn’t new. It’s been kicked around since ( Read more... )

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Or saving it, depending who you ask.

One interesting statistic in the US and global music industry is that streaming is the fastest growing category of music sales these days, at the apparent expense of not only CD sales, but even digital downloads. The appeal isn’t hard to understand - why pay $9.00 per digital album when you can listen to ALL the ( Read more... )

ITEM: There’s an interesting article on io9 that looks at an upcoming trend - white people moving back into city centers - and the potential impact that has on the affected neighborhood, to include the low-income locals already living there.

Turns out it doesn’t end well for the low-income people:

If the incomes of these locals in the U.S. were ( Read more... )

One of the more amusing angles of the Tea Party Libertarian OMG narrative has always been the threat of “going Galt” - that Ayn Randian fantasy in Atlas Shrugged where Libertarians are all genius capitalist engineers who form their own govt-free Utopia, leaving socialist America to collapse into a chaotic socialist cesspool of socialist tyranny, ( Read more... )

You probably know by now that U2 has a new album out. And odds are you already knew that because it suddenly appeared in your iTunes. Or, if you don’t have an iCloud account, you knew about it because of all the iCloud users going insane on Twitter about finding some f***ing new U2 album on their f***ing iTunes and how the f*** do I f****ing delete ( Read more... )

Comics fans may have heard by now that Marvel Comics is diversifying its character line-up further away from usual White Male Superhero demographic by making Thor a woman and Captain America an African-American.

More specifically, Thor will be replaced by a female character who will wield the Mjölnir (that big hammer that gives Thor his power), and ( Read more... )

If you watch cable TV news or have a Facebook account, you’ve probably heard about the latest Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance laws. And if you heard about it from either of those two sources, you’ve probably heard some politically charged and ludicrously simplistic summaries about the ruling and its potential impact.

On the other hand, ( Read more... )