Here comes the character that never made any sense even in a non-sequitur kind of way.

The Thnikka man is the one part of the H*R mythos I never bought into. He is not worthy of his own Decemberween cartoon.

I'd have called this a total bust, were it not for the Bells of Homsar easter egg when you click "dang" at the end.

NFL piracy

BoingBoing disappoints me.

Over the weekend, there was a pivotal NFL game. All I know about it is that the New England Patriots are playing, and the game is only carried on the NFL network, a network that many cable companies don't even carry, and those that do put it on their most expensive tiers. The office was abuzz about it all last week.

Now, based on everything Cory Doctorow has been saying for the last few years, when entertainment companies do something truly clueless, the public responds by filling the gap, and usually this means ordinary law-abiding citizens become heartless pirates. Therefore, I expected there to pirated streams all over the Internet, rebroadcasting the live game without the express written consent of the NFL. And since cutting commercials out of live TV is difficult, maybe a few smartass ones would replace all the beer commercials with scenes from every Lifetime movie where a drunk husband is beating up his wife.

I wonder if that will ever happen.