![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
A couple more Katrina links
It's often said that Wikipedia and Google are the two most important tools for internet users -- and anyone who uses them can tell you it's true. So, in addition to the invaluable resource Google News searches have been as I sought to verify facts and find concise reports of various news items, I shouldn't have been surprised to find that there's already a Wiki article on the 'Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans', replete with all the sorts of hyperlinks one expects from Wikipedia articles. Peruse this at length, share the link, and contribute information as appropriate.
The other link I have to share relates to something we don't usually think of as an Internet resource, but which I was looking forward almost desperately last night (before zonking out too soon for the initial broadcast): the first episode of The Daily Show since before Katrina struck Louisiana. This morning, Te hunted up a streaming video clip of the opening of last night's monologue. (Be warned, watching just the one clip made even Te's souped-up and normally streaming-happy computer system crash.) We were both laughing out loud, and I mean *loud*, at more than one point. It was just what we needed.
We'll be watching the rebroadcast of the full episode tonight at 8pm ET, and we encourage everyone else to do the same if you haven't seen the episode already. Since not everyone will get the chance -- no cable, no television service that shows Comedy Central programming, busy doing other things at the time, etc. -- and since the video clips at the official site can't be saved to disk on top of being likely to crash computers, I'm going to ask outright for anybody with a transcript (or means to provide one) point me in the right direction.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart airs (regularly) Monday-Thusday at 11pm ET, with rebroadcasts of the most recent episode at 1am, 10am, and 8pm the following day.
Mediachannel.org has a different clip up which can be downloaded (and which we saved a copy of, so that if that disappears we can use YouSendIt or another site to redistribute it). This is Ed Helms's coverage of the Katrina story, specifically on the Bush government's focus on spin. Like the monologue, though, it provides a much-needed laugh without shying from the importance of the issues.
The other link I have to share relates to something we don't usually think of as an Internet resource, but which I was looking forward almost desperately last night (before zonking out too soon for the initial broadcast): the first episode of The Daily Show since before Katrina struck Louisiana. This morning, Te hunted up a streaming video clip of the opening of last night's monologue. (Be warned, watching just the one clip made even Te's souped-up and normally streaming-happy computer system crash.) We were both laughing out loud, and I mean *loud*, at more than one point. It was just what we needed.
We'll be watching the rebroadcast of the full episode tonight at 8pm ET, and we encourage everyone else to do the same if you haven't seen the episode already. Since not everyone will get the chance -- no cable, no television service that shows Comedy Central programming, busy doing other things at the time, etc. -- and since the video clips at the official site can't be saved to disk on top of being likely to crash computers, I'm going to ask outright for anybody with a transcript (or means to provide one) point me in the right direction.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart airs (regularly) Monday-Thusday at 11pm ET, with rebroadcasts of the most recent episode at 1am, 10am, and 8pm the following day.
Mediachannel.org has a different clip up which can be downloaded (and which we saved a copy of, so that if that disappears we can use YouSendIt or another site to redistribute it). This is Ed Helms's coverage of the Katrina story, specifically on the Bush government's focus on spin. Like the monologue, though, it provides a much-needed laugh without shying from the importance of the issues.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
And oh, TDS is hit and miss with being able to turn off my rage, but last night's succeeded, for a little while. Jon Stewart must never leave, ever.