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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>my ruminations on tech, politics, movies, TV, and anything else that piques my interest</description><title>ahintz.net</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ahintz)</generator><link>http://www.ahintz.net/</link><item><title>This is great: Will Smith does ‘The Fresh Prince of...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hFjwbKMlmF4?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is great: Will Smith does ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ Rap on The Graham Norton Show.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/23435340152</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/23435340152</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 13:32:53 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious! This is easily my favorite Downton Abbey spoof. Jimmy...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zFEabHQWntg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious! This is easily my favorite Downton Abbey spoof. Jimmy Fallon is great in “Downton Sixbey”! Can’t wait for more episodes!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/21069245521</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/21069245521</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:18:20 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>This is really cool. Just amazing work. A timelapse of what was...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37120554" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is really cool. Just amazing work. A timelapse of what was viewed through the window in Hitchcock’s &lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/37120554" target="_blank"&gt;Jeff Desom&lt;/a&gt;. h/t to &lt;a href="http://daringfireball.net" target="_blank"&gt;John Gruber&lt;/a&gt; @daringfireball&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/20634449477</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/20634449477</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:28:18 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>This is so cool - great marketing for Ridley...</title><description>&lt;object width="524" height="374"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/ads/postrolls/Prometheus/Prometheus-450k.mp4&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/Prometheus-TED-embed.jpg&amp;vw=512&amp;vh=288&amp;ap=0" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="524" height="374" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/ads/postrolls/Prometheus/Prometheus-450k.mp4&amp;su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/Prometheus-TED-embed.jpg&amp;vw=512&amp;vh=288&amp;ap=0"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is so cool - great marketing for Ridley Scott’s &lt;em&gt;Prometheus.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/18501584748</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/18501584748</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:24:17 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>lianamaris:

Things that cannot screen for breast cancer and...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqkrckXlJ1r65lwbo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lianamaris.tumblr.com/post/16884980496/things-that-cannot-screen-for-breast-cancer-and" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;lianamaris&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Things that cannot screen for breast cancer and things that can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And for those who are yelling about PP not doing mammograms, “screenings” are not just mammograms.  ”Screenings” are also breast exams, which are the first line of defense. Those breast exams are done every time a woman has a pelvic exam, which she needs in order to get birth control or STI testing. Get it together. Semantics do not change the facts. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more information on supporting REAL pro-women organizations, &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02/1061188/-Put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is:-Support-real-pro-woman-organizations?detail=hide"&gt;check out this great article&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/KailiJoy"&gt;Kaili Joy Gray&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16959983783</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16959983783</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:10:46 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Bueller? Bueller?</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VhkDdayA4iA?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bueller? Bueller?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16786887839</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16786887839</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:00:06 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Cool early Jim Henson short for a Bell System (i.e. AT&amp;T)...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ivJNNwTGDcw?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cool early Jim Henson short for a Bell System (i.e. AT&amp;T) seminar back in 1963!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16499412848</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16499412848</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:24:06 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Opportunity on Mars: 8 years and counting! (by JPLnews)</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-67q-YcrAeo?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Opportunity on Mars: 8 years and counting! (by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-67q-YcrAeo"&gt;JPLnews&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16417324992</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16417324992</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:16:24 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Hello (by ant1mat3rie)
This is pretty impressive editing. h/t to...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35055590" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hello (by &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/35055590"&gt;ant1mat3rie&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is pretty impressive editing. h/t to @daringfireball&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16009936637</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/16009936637</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:15:13 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>My first Mac - seven years ago this spring I switched to a Mac...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GJpZGeihy0s?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first Mac - seven years ago this spring I switched to a Mac and I haven’t looked back. Thanks, Steve!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/15696276267</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/15696276267</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:45:08 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Go Bears! Thanks to #SFChronicle and @cmarinucci!</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="videoId=1279793051001&amp;playerId=823619053&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go Bears! Thanks to #SFChronicle and @cmarinucci!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/12907000257</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/12907000257</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:54:06 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>I don’t need a new car, but these new Fiats sure look...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cpi2IAec9Ho?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don’t need a new car, but these new Fiats sure look cool. And how can you not love this ad?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/12897227965</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/12897227965</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:38:43 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>I know it isn’t Thanksgiving yet, but Yahoo!...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7piTnh3sDBQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know it isn’t Thanksgiving yet, but &lt;a href="http://music.yahoo.com/videos/--223421950"&gt;Yahoo! Music&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;replaced with the YouTube version&lt;/em&gt;) has two of my favorite recent Idol contestants - Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams - with a great video of their holiday single, Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Great way to get into the season a little early!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/12825059940</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/12825059940</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:07:00 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Great video showing coding directly on the iPad using Codify.</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jaIhEXZ7WW4?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great video showing coding directly on the iPad using &lt;a href="http://twolivesleft.com/Codify/"&gt;Codify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11982692447</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11982692447</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:52:19 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>How The Austerity Class Rules Washington | The Nation</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/164073/how-austerity-class-rules-washington?page=full"&gt;How The Austerity Class Rules Washington | The Nation&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://www.instapaper.com/"&gt;Instapaper&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11746777539</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11746777539</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:09:12 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Mother Jones</title><description>&lt;a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/10/climate-skepticism-takes-another-hit"&gt;Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Mother Jones&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://www.instapaper.com/"&gt;Instapaper&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11745145600</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11745145600</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:28:34 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple's "Fall From Grace"</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/05/apples-fall-from-grace/"&gt;Apple's "Fall From Grace"&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://parislemon.com/post/11065619448"&gt;parislemon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is, quite simply, one of the worst pieces I’ve ever read on Apple. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zach Epstein starts off trashing Apple’s iPhone 4S announcement as perhaps “the beginning of the end” — and does so citing a bunch of analysts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Analysts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As anyone who watches Apple closely knows, analysts are absolutely fucktarded when it comes to Apple. If you bet directly against what they’ve said about the company over the years, you’d be a very rich person. They’re always wrong. And it’s clear that the vast majority of them do not understand the company. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, posts citing analysts about Apple are nothing new. Some writers keep going back to the well despite getting diarrhea of the mind over and over again from what they drink there. It’s fascinating to watch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But what makes this post particularly bad is the way Epstein pussyfoots around the position he sets out to take. The entire end of his post is basically “don’t get me wrong, I think the iPhone 4S is great but…”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So he loves the device, but analysts don’t, therefore it’s the end of Apple? Right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He also cites the seemingly tepid reaction from the crowd during the event itself. I’ve been to pretty much every single Apple event over the past five years. This is the reaction about half of the time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rumors leading up to these event often set the stage for things that simply aren’t coming. This leads some to be disappointed — a natural reaction. It’s only when Apple is able to truly surprise people — like with the iPhone — that everyone is wowed. Even the initial iPad announcement was dubbed “underwhelming”. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you judge Apple’s products by the reaction of analysts and the press, you’re an idiot. Pure and simple. Apple doesn’t make products for analysts and the press. They make products for everyone. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11066115301</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/11066115301</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:08:16 -0700</pubDate><category>tech</category><category>apple</category><category>iphone 4s</category><category>fucktarded</category><category>jackassery</category></item><item><title>American McCarver: There's Always Hope</title><description>&lt;a href="http://americanmccarver.com/post/7465221334"&gt;American McCarver: There's Always Hope&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Nice article from Jason Snell at the new sport blog American McCarver about Sunday’s USA-Brazil World Cup soccer match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://americanmccarver.com/post/7465221334"&gt;americanmccarver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo4x81DIGI1qz4udr.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s easy to joke that the only thing Americans care less about than soccer (translation for our non-U.S. readers: “the sport called ‘football’ that’s being ruined by Sepp Blatter, rather than the one being ruined by Roger Goodell”) is soccer when it’s played by women. Then again, the…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/7482109703</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/7482109703</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:37:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Another song leak from Smash! How are they going to do...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/6578473309/tumblr_lmu7rw2bR01qz9xvj&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another song leak from Smash! How are they going to do broadway-quality songs every week of a TV season?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://deliberatepace.tumblr.com/post/6555075970"&gt;deliberatepace&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When the season’s over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The play won’t end&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;‘Cause a baseball diamond is a girl’s best friend&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/6578473309</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/6578473309</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:34:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Smash</category></item><item><title>I really can’t wait for this show. Is it mid-season...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/6548740659/tumblr_lmhpkcRcVz1qz9xvj&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really can’t wait for this show. Is it mid-season yet?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://popculturebrain.com/post/6539924902"&gt;popculturebrain&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hear Katherine McPhee and Megan Hlity sing an original song from NBC’s upcoming musical pilot &lt;em&gt;Smash&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ahintz.net/post/6548740659</link><guid>http://www.ahintz.net/post/6548740659</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:40:00 -0700</pubDate><category>Smash</category></item></channel></rss>

