Offtopic stuff

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

I hope you guys don't mind a short trip off the beaten path..

While a lot of people don't like Bill Clinton, it's always fun to see a
little comedy.  A video was produced for a recent White House
Correspondents' dinner.  I'm sure there's an in-joke or two that I don't
understand, but hey..
http://play.rbn.com/?url=swave/abc/g2demand/000430dinner.rm&proto=rtsp
(also available on other major online news sites..)

A marginally on-topic story is floating around right now --
ABC/Disney-owned stations are off the air on AOL/Time-Warner cable
systems around the country.  Hopefully that isn't a sign of things to
come (while some fault definitely resides on the shoulders of Disney,
it's pretty scary that this could be a taste of corporate censorship
which may occur more often in the coming years.  But I might just be
paranoid..)

Lastly, if you're a Kubrick fan, you'll be happy to know that the Oak
Street Cinema (near the U of MN) will be running a number of his movies
on the big screen starting on Friday. The schedule is here:
http://www.oakstreetcinema.org/calendar.html (Unfortunately, `2001' will
have to wait until next year ;-)

We now return you to our normal programming..

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