Hock Show Weekend Top Five for August 22nd – 28th, 2010
1. The Emmys. The best comedies? Some show about Al Bundy, a drama about Tony Soprano’s wife, and, of course, Glee. No mention of the best commedy on television right now, TV’s Community. Well, at least the host is…Oh, never mind. Jimmy Fallon.
2. Dancing With the Stars Is Still Pretty Lame. They’re still getting the weirdest casts of celebrities now, though. Bristol Palin? The Situation? The Hoff? Florence Henderson? Sure, why the hell not.
3. Some Guys Are Trapped in a Mine. 33 Miners are trapped in a mine in Chile. The Chilean government has been able to drill down far enough to give the guys food, medical supplies, and…PSPs? Sure. Why not. But they’re saying the plan and execution for their release will take around three months. Which is just crazy. Hopefully they’ve got an extra long charge cable for those PSPs.
4. Digg Unveils New Look, Promptly Breaks Everything That Was Good About Digg. It’s constantly crashing, the new sidebar menu is backwards and broken, and the stories aren’t laid out in a hard to read and clumsy fashion. So great job you guys, your place in terrible redesign history is secured.
5. Google Will Tell You What to Read. One of the new features that G-Mail is rolling out is tiered priority levels. Not that that’s anything new in e-mail, but the default settings seem to just randomly think things are important. That e-mail from your mom? Meh. African prince wants to share 50 million$ with you and all you need to do is send him $30,000 US? READ THAT NOW!