Al Gore Invents Internet TV

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catdevnull writes "The SF Gate is reporting that former VP Al Gore is launching "Current" a new CableTV-Internet hybrid. From the article: "Current, the name of Gore's enterprise, hopes to do that by airing a shuffle of short news features, some produced by the network but many submitted online by viewers. Current will also air segments every half hour showing TV viewers what Google searchers are tapping into at that moment -- everything from current events to tourist destinations. It's all directed at a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once." "

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Next week... (Score:5, Funny)

by FlyByPC ( 841016 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:31PM (#12160302) Homepage

...he'll invent SlashDot!

Oblig quote (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:31PM (#12160309)

"Al Gore's endorsement should be enough for anybody"

Al Gore? (Score:5, Funny)

by iGN97 ( 83927 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:32PM (#12160317) Homepage

The original inventor of the algorithm?

Haven't we had enough.... (Score:5, Funny)

by rob_squared ( 821479 ) writes: <rob@rob-squa r e d .com> on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:33PM (#12160327)

...articles about robots recently?

Re:Al Gore? (Score:2, Funny)

by stalefries ( 860068 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:35PM (#12160362) Homepage

Quite the resume, isn't it? Invented the internet, internet tv, the Al-Gore-ithm, and ran for the presidency and lost just because of a few Floridians!

When will Al Gore's head become... (Score:5, Funny)

by dspisak ( 257340 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:36PM (#12160378)

Emperor of the Moon? It's taking too damn long.

A TV show or short segment showing what people are looking for on Google? Oh god, I can just imagine it now:

193.53.2.10 is looking for "l33t w@r3z" with 57 hits

Oh but check this out! 216.23.129.44 is looking for "vast right wing conspiracy" with 683,000 hits!

101.23.64.99 is looking for "CENSORED" with 2,947,345 hits. What a perv!

Etc.

Re:Uhhh... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:38PM (#12160386)

Wait... what? There is porn on the Internet!? Why am I always the last to find out about these things.

SHOWING Google searches??? (Score:2, Funny)

by balaam's ass ( 678743 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:38PM (#12160388) Journal

Uh, is Al sure he wants to broadcast how often people are searching for pr0n, and the different "kind" of pr0n they're looking for?

What would Tipper say??

Re:Yeah, and? (Score:2, Funny)

by qewl ( 671495 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:38PM (#12160389)

He's making "liberal TV" But he says he's not.

Nah, I'd guess it to be more like Robot Wars 24/7.

Re:Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:41PM (#12160416)

Yeah keep mocking him. You'll be sorry when he decides to take it back.

Re:When will Al Gore's head become... (Score:3, Funny)

by Mechcozmo ( 871146 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:42PM (#12160426)

Hey! That's my IP!

no! (Score:5, Funny)

by barryfandango ( 627554 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:44PM (#12160442)

"...a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once."

Maybe in my college days, but never again!

Stop it already (Score:2, Funny)

by nxtr ( 813179 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:44PM (#12160450)

April Fools is over for more than 5 days now!

Jay Leno's pic of Gore returning to the spotlight (Score:5, Funny)

by oogoliegoogolie ( 635356 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:46PM (#12160472)

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_L eno/headlines/H_2871/H_2871_13.jpg [nbc.com]

X-Bender (Score:5, Funny)

by joe_bruin ( 266648 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:48PM (#12160493) Homepage Journal

Announcing Car Bot: Thank you all for coming. It is my pleasure to
introduce the host of the Kyoto global warming convention. The
inventor of the environment, and first emperor of the moon, Al Gore.

Al Gore: I have ridden the mighty moon worm!

[Applause]

Fry: Good for him.

Easy enough solution: (Score:3, Funny)

by ImaLamer ( 260199 ) writes: <john@lamar.gmail@com> on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:49PM (#12160501) Homepage Journal

"Put the off button on."
George W. Bush February 14, 2000 Advice to parents who have concerns about violence on television.

Re:Internet-TV hybrid? (Score:5, Funny)

by Khakionion ( 544166 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:55PM (#12160554)

Yes, exactly. Except for not at all, but barring that detail, yes, you're right.

May as well make a pron channel (Score:3, Funny)

by EmbeddedJanitor ( 597831 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @07:55PM (#12160560)

That's what most Google searches are for. And all the ad breaks will be infomercials for Viagra etc.

Re:Al Gore? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:07PM (#12160665)

Based on his dance moves, there's no way "Al Gore" and "rhythm" should be used in conjunction.

Re:What Al Gore said... (Score:3, Funny)

by rhakka ( 224319 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:18PM (#12160756)

1. Used "groupthink" in a sentence.
2. Thinks Gore bragging about having voted to fund the growth of the internet is somehow "damning" or "Gore having claimed to invented the internet".

We have ourselves a Fox News Zombie!

Binary Numbers (Score:2, Funny)

by michelcultivo ( 524114 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:25PM (#12160827) Journal

And Microsoft invented the Binary Numbers [ukonline.co.uk].

Re:Uhhh... (Score:2, Funny)

by wolf- ( 54587 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:27PM (#12160842) Homepage

Naked Democrats [google.com]
Hot Liberal Action [google.com]
Michael Moore Exposed [google.com]
Job Wanted [google.com]

Al Gore's Algorithm (Score:4, Funny)

by Sundroid ( 777083 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:33PM (#12160894) Homepage

From the description in this news article, "Current" sounds like MTV without the music tapes. String together all the semi-hip news and pretentious lecture-in-disguise clips MTV now offers, and you get "Current"!

A friend who has participated in numerous "brainstorm" sessions in TV industry once described those meetings as "plenty of saliva storm but no brain". Now I know why.

The report says Gore bought the network for $70 million; my graphic blog, http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com], does not cost a dime to produce and offers plenty of entertainment.

Re:What Al Gore said... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:42PM (#12160963)

And all of us on /. are ever so thankful for internet related legislation.

Re:What Al Gore said... (Score:3, Funny)

by craXORjack ( 726120 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @08:47PM (#12160994)

Skeptic: "Sir, do you really think that George W. Busch singlehandedly got a bunch of CIA agents together and told them to create a national crisis that would make the American people 'call for help', allowing for the creation of a national secret police founded and staffed by Busch henchmen while simultaneously sending the price of gasoline through the roof and making his fatcat oil friends even wealthier?"

Response: "I don't know, YOU TELL ME!"

Democratic followup: "Dubya isn't smart enough to do that. Just look at him for God's sake!"

Republican followup: "Yes, he is."

Re:The link? (Score:5, Funny)

by RyuuzakiTetsuya ( 195424 ) writes: <taiki@c o x .net> on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @09:01PM (#12161093)

Looking at this page it's apparant taht Al Gore wants to create FarkTV.

GOD HELP US ALL.

Al Gore invented mathematics... (Score:5, Funny)

by n0rr1s ( 768407 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @09:09PM (#12161179)

...that's why they're called Al-Gore-ithms.

Re:NSF had nothing to do with his funny claim (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @09:15PM (#12161227)

Then he should have said "I took initiative in helping FUND the internet."
For those of you keeping score at home:
Al Gore: 1 semantic slipup
His Opponent: 12,476 slipups (plus $2e11 mistake penalty), and counting.

Re:How the mighty fall.... (Score:4, Funny)

by Jeremi ( 14640 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @09:36PM (#12161425) Homepage

And this man was almost president.

Thank God we dodged that bullet, eh? With the wrong man in charge we might have ended up, oh, I don't know, invading the wrong country by mistake or something...

Re:Al Gore and the Internet (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @09:52PM (#12161555)

' I suppose Americans would rather be entertained by a clown than having a good albeit dull president '
We have a good but dull president. The clown who said he invented the Internet is now off inventing the cable network.

Re:X-Bender (Score:1, Funny)

by batousai ( 826599 ) writes: on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @11:06PM (#12162199)

Don't forget he's patented double clicking!

But its ok, I right click select open and then left click...

Re:Al Gore invented mathematics... (Score:5, Funny)

by Peer ( 137534 ) writes: on Thursday April 07, 2005 @08:50AM (#12164332) Homepage

You're not far off; the word algorithm comes from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi, and Al Gore is actually his granddaughter.

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Next week... (Score:5, Funny)

Oblig quote (Score:3, Funny)

Al Gore? (Score:5, Funny)

Haven't we had enough.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Al Gore? (Score:2, Funny)

When will Al Gore's head become... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Uhhh... (Score:1, Funny)

SHOWING Google searches??? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Yeah, and? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:When will Al Gore's head become... (Score:3, Funny)

no! (Score:5, Funny)

Stop it already (Score:2, Funny)

Jay Leno's pic of Gore returning to the spotlight (Score:5, Funny)

X-Bender (Score:5, Funny)

Easy enough solution: (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Internet-TV hybrid? (Score:5, Funny)

May as well make a pron channel (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Al Gore? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What Al Gore said... (Score:3, Funny)

Binary Numbers (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Uhhh... (Score:2, Funny)

Al Gore's Algorithm (Score:4, Funny)

Re:What Al Gore said... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What Al Gore said... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:The link? (Score:5, Funny)

Al Gore invented mathematics... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:NSF had nothing to do with his funny claim (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How the mighty fall.... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Al Gore and the Internet (Score:1, Funny)

Re:X-Bender (Score:1, Funny)

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