Lifehacker is a kind of self-improvement blog for geeks. It offers little bits of advice on things like how to do your own podcast or where to find an especially useful Firefox extension. About a week ago, they featured a clever article distinguishing between television and television programs. In summary, plopping yourself in front of the television and randomly flipping through channels is bad. Using your television as a monitor for specific content (whether a DVD or a TiVo’d program stripped of ads) is okay. Which is a relief, considering that the latter describes how I use my own television. But I do need to get out of the habit of having it on as I get ready in the morning. There’s something about starting your day watching various items of bad news scroll across the bottom of a screen as the pretty anchorwoman chirps happily about the latest technology fad that is jarringly absurd.
I found this intersting bloggy thing through Google. (I searched for “Define ‘Normal'”, which is a book.) Anyway, you could turn the brightness all the way down so you can only hear about the latest technology fads or just mute the television! I hope that helped (aside from my creepy explanation of how I found the site).
Keiko