The new television season is beginning and it seems NBC has fired the first shot across the bow of the Personal Video Recorder owner's ships.

According to TiVo, today's new episode of "ER" on NBC starts precisely at "9:59 p.m.". Yes, that's "9:59", not "10:00", "9:59".

Update: I just took a look at the rest of tonight's NBC lineup. "Friends" runs from 8:00 to 8:48p.m., Will and Grace from 8:48p.m. to 9:27p.m., and some show I've never heard of called "Coupling" ("Six single friends chase after love and intimacy in the Windy City"... yeah, sounds original to me, too) is running from 9:27 to the aforementioned 9:59p.m. The network news is running as normal, then "The Tonight Show" runs from 11:35p.m. to 12:37a.m., and the Late Night Show with Conan O'Brien runs until 1:36a.m. (These last two times may be somewhat normal, as they are shown for several otherwise-normal nights, too.)

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I'm tired of being told what to think. Even by people I ostensibly agree with.

Does anyone have a good resource for reasonably unbiased news? By which I mean reasonably objectively unbiased news. Obviously one can go to CSPAN and watch the source, but nobody has time for that.

In particular, I'm envisioning a news source that provides simple summaries of important speeches with an effort to avoid bias. I mention this criterion since I think it can be determined relatively objectively. I'd like to expand this but I'm having a hard time making sure objectivity can be maintained.

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I finally got all my email straightened out and to my relief it's been piling up in a mailbox, not just emptying out into the ether. *phew* I would definately have lost my subscriptions to my mailing lists.

While trolling through the 1170 messages I've accumulated and ridding myself of the spam (oi!), I found this spam title from a spammer who Doesn't Get It: "Erection Cure" (emphasis mine). Somebody revoke his spamming license!

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