Posts filed under 'Useless Information'
Some useless information to start your week. Due to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal for radio stations in the US to play a song within an hour of it being requested by a listener online. Presumably, this is only for radio stations which have a webstream, and for songs which were not already scheduled to play within an hour of said request…but who knows? And who really wants to try it?
More importantly, how the heck do you enforce that law? There better not be a government minion public servant locked in a small dark room ensuring compliance.
Samuel
September 28th, 2009 at 08:06am
Gavin Wood (of Countdown, Hey Hey It’s Saturday and more lotto draws than I care to count fame) was one of the executive producers of Wheel Of Fortune during Tony Barber’s brief time as host in 1996.
Samuel
May 26th, 2009 at 11:43am
Poland’s national anthem has the rather pessimistic title “Poland is not yet lost”…
…but we intend on misplacing it tomorrow
Samuel
May 11th, 2009 at 09:44am
Kenyan cricketer Mehmood Quaraishy took one wicket for 39 runs in his debut One Day International match for East Africa against New Zealand in 1975.
Samuel
May 4th, 2009 at 10:18am
Back in the days when John Laws was still on the air, he would start his show with a piece of useless information. I quite looked forward to hearing this bit of information at 9:05 each morning, even if I usually forgot it by lunch time. I would also be disappointed when Lawsie was absent as his fill-ins never provided useless information…this, oddly enough, left me filling in for Lawsie and emailing useless information to certain friends.
Last week whilst reading a forum, I was reminded of this (not that what I was reading was even remotely related to John Laws or his useless information) and I decided that I would start providing a weekly (and possibly more regular) piece of useless information here. I was going to start doing this yesterday, but with the public holiday and the amount of people visiting this information about Mike Jeffreys, I decided to leave the Jeffreys story at the top of page, and hold this rather trivial piece of fun nonsense until today. In future I won’t ramble on like this before the useless information, but I thought it would help to put the weekly feature in context if I did so on this occasion.
Anyway, without further rambling and delays, this week’s useless information is…
Dr. Phil has an ISDN phone line in his office.
Samuel
April 28th, 2009 at 10:19am