TiVo Wish List

Even though I don't own one yet, I already have a wish list.

Here are two items on it:

• I wish TiVo would not only know when the commercials occur, so as to filter them out, but it would also know when the interview segment in The Daily Show is about to begin, and filter that out too. A 12-minute Daily Show dosage would be just right.

• Even better would be an ability to access a TiVo or equivalent device from anywhere on the Net, and play any of the video in a window or fullscreen on one's computer. For instance, during lunch, if one's stuck at the cubicle muching on a sandwich before getting back to work, it'd be nice to be able to click on a link which would load up that 12-minute Daily Show segment from your TiVo at home, and you could watch it right there during lunch. Of course, if such a capability existed, then theoretically a peer-to-peer network could exist, of all the TiVos in the world, and you could browse/search all of the shows that everyone in the world had on their TiVos --- a number that would closely approximate the number of shows that've aired in the past few days I bet. In other words, a TV Napster. Hmm.

The Fifty Most Loathsome People

I wonder what the list of the Fifty Most Loathsome Bloggers, or the Fifty Most Loathsome Technologists would look like. That might make for some interesting reading.

Richter Mortis

Best quote: When the exec producer was asked whether he consulted scientists for the show, his response was, "Not really. We went on the Internet for backup research."

Yikes.