You hear a lot about so-called piracy on the internet these days. The record and movie industries have made quite a big deal about lost sales…yadda yadda yadda. Well here’s a reminder of what real piracy is, the story of a Japanese freighter fighting off pirates near Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Yes kids, there are real pirates in the world, oh and in a battle between pirates and ninja, why ninja would win of course! Ninja are better trained, that should be obvious! 😉
Once again the greatest global sporting event goes on without much attention from me, or many in the U.S.. I’m not a huge futbol fan, but I do enjoy the game and watched a handful of matches during the last World Cup. I would like the United States to make a better showing, but even if your team doesn’t go too far, it’s still fun to watch. This year my bane has been money grubbing media companies that make it hard to easily find out who is airing the games on TV! I know now that ESPN is carrying the games in the U.S., but I would never have figured that out from Yahoo’s World Cup site, which is the official FIFA World Cup site, as nowhere can I find a link to this basic information! I suppose they wanted ESPN to pay big money for this, so nothing! There’s plenty of blame for both sides, but it just irks me when simple information for the fans is hidden or omitted for fundamentally stupid reasons. I know they want to make money, but without the fans, they’d be out of business.