http://opinionsdaily.net From Britney & Paris to Philosophy & Politics, we discuss it all daily... Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:10:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've neglected this blog in the past few weeks because of two reasons 1) I'm lazy and 2) I've been very busy. But something magical happened today to bring me back to this blog: Karl Rove is leaving the White House. Whether it was push polling in 2000 to smear John ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/08/13/ding-dong-rove-is-dead/ Just a saw a revival of Woody Allen's Manhattan at the Film Forum. What a beautiful film... Seeing the opening montage of New York City with Woody Allen's voiceover was alone worth the price of admission. Luckily I found it on youtube. Unfortunately it replaces Woody Allen's voice with a spanish guy... ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/07/23/the-beginning-of-woody-allens-manhattan/ Manhattan is a terrible, overpriced yuppie haven. I can say this because I live in Brooklyn of course. (Us Brooklynites are growing ever resentful of the millionaire playground Manhattan has become.) Case in point: "Spaces are in such demand that there are waiting lists of buyers. Eight people are hoping for the chance ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/07/14/the-225000-parking-space/ Today I was doing my usual useless perusal of the internet, and I discovered this on wikipedia: Dick Assman (born ca. 1934 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Saskatchewan petrol station owner whose name propelled him to international celebrity status in 1995. Assman, who worked at Petro-Canada's Victoria Square Mall station in ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/07/07/best-of-the-web-70707-dick-assman/ The conventional wisdom says women use 20,000 words a day, while men only use 7,000.Is this correct? A story in today's New York Times says no. They quote a study from Science Magazine where 396 subjects wore tiny microphones. The results: Men and Women speak roughly the same amount of words ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/07/06/best-of-the-web-70507-do-men-or-women-talk-more/ Is there anything better than web 2.0? In my lifetime, we've come from waiting for our news during a 11 p.m. broadcast to getting news instantly on google news. From never seeing pictures of friends and family living far away to looking at their myspace or flickr page and seeing them in ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/07/03/seeqpod-listen-to-any-song-you-want-at-anytime-for-free/ Here's further proof of why the web is the greatest invention ever... Other Interesting Links: CIA to air decades of dirty laundry, including more proof of why Nixon was a bastard. iphone is almost here! Check out the commercial. 14 great sports fights. [tags] dramatic chipmunk, CIA, iphone, sports fights, ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/06/24/best-of-the-web-62407-dramatic-chipmunk/ I had a good laugh about this story: EDINBURG, Texas (AP) -- Firefighters who spent half an hour fighting a blaze in which 2,000 pounds of marijuana went up in smoke breathed so much of it that they would have failed a drug test, a fire chief said. It took more than ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/06/22/best-of-the-web-62207-firefighters-inhaled-as-ton-of-pot-burned/ Anyone who has a blog, like myself, are usually full integrated into Web 2.0. We use wikipedia constantly, we find videos not only on YouTube, but iFilm, Daily Motion and Metacafe. We look up pictures on flickr... But we've only seen the tip of the iceberg with the internet. Imagine ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/06/17/best-of-the-web-61707-prometeus-the-media-revolution/ For a show that was talked about being maybe the greatest series in the history of television, The Sopranos ended with a whimper on Sunday night. Instead of drama and intrigue, we, the audience, got dead air. Instead of closure for the series, the audience got an open-ended ending that left us ... http://opinionsdaily.net/2007/06/12/the-sopranos-finale-what-the-hell-was-that/