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  All I cared about was how many more episodes of The Office there are before the writers’ strike effects them. Unfortunately, they are the show that apparently has the fewest episodes written.
  (tags: TV)
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  When they heard a catchy song on the iPod Touch commercial, lots of people started searching for it, except the title is not Music is my Boyfriend — or anything else you hear on the ad.
  (tags: apple search)
• Lifestyle Magazine for Jewish Women to Appear | New York Times
  Quote - Jewish Living, which makes its debut this week, aims to be the lifestyle magazine of choice for women 25 to 54 with a median household income of more than $125,000.
  (tags: magazines)

It’s taken me several days to get around to it, but the “Unaired 1994 Pilot of 24″ spoof created by the folks at CollegeHumor.com is so funny, it hurts. Seeing this makes me agree with Wired.com blogger Nicholas Thompson, who writes: “My guess is that the writers’ strike is going to be a huge boon for (web video).”

And just for the record, what I’m saying here has nothing to do with “user-generated” or “amateur” content. I’m talking about professionals who are working outside the current battle zone between studios and writers. (Writers who I’m sure will soon be called ’scabs’ if their stuff gets too popular.)

Again, just to say this one more time: The video above is not “user-generated,” it’s major league quality geek humor.