Timmy O'Riley By L. Hadron and the Colliders 62
Making music has never been quite this awesome! Using only ThinkGeek products (Bliptronic 5000, Guitar Shirt, Drumkit Shirt, Stylophone, and Otamatone Electronic Instrument) the ultra-geeks over at ThinkGeek have created this ultra-cool cover of The Who's Baba O'Reilly. This also qualifies as a full blown shameless plug since ThinkGeek shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot.
Re:Idle (Score:4, Insightful)
Perhaps you got lucky and the part where they beat "ThinkGeek shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot" into your head completely missed your skull.
Awesome! (Score:3, Insightful)
All it lacks is a witty one liner by someone who is putting on a pair of sunglasses!
Thought I had ads turned off... (Score:2, Insightful)
BMI Clearance (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if they purchased performance rights through BMI. If not, will the RIAA come down hard on ThinkGeek?
Re:Shameless plug? (Score:3, Insightful)
I work with a guy who bought the guitar shirt, so I can amend your statement to be
Here's how the internet works. You can choose not to click on some links - it's not like Pokemon. Or Garbage Pail Kids. It's pretty clearly labeled...
Re:Shameless plug? (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah well another man is an idiot.
"Conflict of interest" is when you're a Judge, with a duty to administer impartial justice, but you have a material or personal investment in seeing a particular outcome. Or any similar case where official and personal interests conflict. That's what it means.
Slashdot's official interest is to make money for itself and its parent company. Slashdot is not a civil servant. Whatever duty to impartiality you imagine Slashdot has is simply that -- your imagination. But in reality, Slashdot has never been impartial, and barely ever tried to appear as such.
In short, shameless plugs are not a conflict of interest, they are entirely within Slashdot's interests. At least they are upfront about it.