Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Pop culture, copyright, Communists, and libraries

Having trouble keeping up with your TV watching lately? Despair not, Hulu.com has come to the rescue {via Joyce}. The advertising business model makes it free and legal to watch entire shows. But if all I want to share is the libraries-are-a-Communist-plot story from the Colbert Report, it's easier to do on YouTube than from Hulu, where you'd have to watch the whole October 7, 2008 episode to find it. Still, a pretty darned viable alternative (not to mention, a higher quality one).

4 Comments:

Blogger Suzanne said...

So funny. Love the Stephen Colbert. Of course, as a person who lives between library districts, there is nothing free about the public libraries for me. This gives me no end of sorrow.

4:31 PM  
Anonymous Kathleen!!!! said...

Hahahaha!!

Libraries ARE kind of communistic, if you think about it. :)

"Math is a non-communist subject." - From when we had to make statements about our school (We get split up: half do algebra, the other do geometry. I'm in geometry.)

6:36 PM  
Blogger franceylibrarian said...

And of course, there's nothing free at all about libraries - it just feels that way when the tax bite is already taken :-).

Hmm, math if math is a non-communist subject, does that mean it's capitalist? I think I just killed the metaphor.

9:56 PM  
Anonymous AJ said...

*hums Colbert Report theme*

"Math is a non-communist subject." This can be backed up...how?

1:15 PM  

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