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Compare And Contrast of the Day: It was 20 years ago today that Nickelodeon launched their very first batch of Nicktoons: Original animated series produced by Nickelodeon for Nickelodeon.
Doug, which kicked off the lineup at 10AM ET, was followed by Rugrats at 10:30, and The Ren and Stimpy Show at 11.
A lot has changed at Nick in the last two decades. Compare the network’s schedule from the Sunday of the Nicktoons premiere with this coming Sunday’s schedule (via TitanTV) & discuss.
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Compare And Contrast of the Day: It was 20 years ago today that Nickelodeon launched their very first batch of Nicktoons: Original animated series produced by Nickelodeon for Nickelodeon.
Doug, which kicked off the lineup at 10AM ET, was followed by Rugrats at 10:30, and The Ren and Stimpy Show at 11.
A lot has changed at Nick in the last two decades. Compare the network’s schedule from the Sunday of the Nicktoons premiere with this coming Sunday’s schedule (via TitanTV) & discuss.
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Wait For It of the Day: Zach’s proposal to his girlfriend Tabitha at Chicago Comic Con is presided over by an honest-to-goodness knight.
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This x That:
Know This:
- Debt Crisis: Obama signs debt bill into law after deal passes Senate; stocks drop, Dow closes below 12,000 despite debt news. Moody’s leaves US credit rating untouched for now, but downgrade still possible; CNN/ORC poll: 77% of Americans think Washington behaved like “spoiled children”; VP Biden: I did not call Tea Party Republicans “terrorists.”
- Congress recesses without solving FAA stalemate, 4,000 employees out of work through Labor Day.
- Former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner arrested in connection with phone hacking scandal; man who threw shaving cream pie at Murdoch jailed for six weeks.
- RIP: Gene McDaniels, successful singer/songwriter, dead at 76.
Read This:
- Today’s Big Read: Islamist insurgent group to blame for Somalia famine.
- Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) compares being associated with Obama to “touching a tar baby,” apologizes.
- Onion News Network writers unionize, call off strike.
- Follow Up: “Promising lead” in D.B. Cooper case points to dead man.
- Shawshank Redemption tree damaged by lightning, sends Mansfield officials scrambling to preserve it.
- Alec Baldwin to host SNL’s 37th season premiere.
- Confirmed: Charlie Sheen’s Two and a Half Men character is dead.
- MTV reality star threatens to sue Entourage, says he’s the real Johnny Bananas.
- Lars Von Trier reacts to Dogville being on Norwegian terrorist’s list of favorite movies: “If it was an inspiration, I’m sorry that I made it.”
- Married Norwegian Lesbian couple saved 40 kids from massacre.
The Other:
- NewsFeed: What Anders Behring Breivik Can Expect Inside Norway’s Prisons.
- Tea x Time List: 15 Kids Books You Need To Read.
- Above: “Circles of Influence”: a chart of artistic, scientific, and phiosophical debts through time. (via / via.)
Animated Short of the Day: Eyrie — a wonderfully animated short by CalArts alum / recent Dreamworks hire David Wolter, with a touching twist ending worthy of M. Night Shyamalan in a world where M. Night Shyamalan makes good movies.
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Seeking Enlightment.
Submitted by Pablo Benavente.
“I have so many deeply embarrassing moments. In the fifth film I had to give this big kind of Henry the Fifth type speech, this stirring leadership speech, and I was walking around doing it and then I got to the end of the take and somebody pointed out that I had my shoes on the wrong feet.”
The old school world of Tetris comes to a city near you in Andrey Turik’s nostalgic new piece of photography / art.
City Tetris by Andrey Turik (Flickr) (Behance) (Twitter)
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