Chilean Miners: The Video Game

It was bound to happen: Now you too can save each of the Chilean miners from the depths — if you have the patience.

Visit this website and you’ll have the chance to pull each of the 33 Chilean miners to safety by lowering and rising “The Phoenix” rescue capsule. Lower it down and a miner gets in. As you raise the cage (illustrated with a smiley face) the miner’s name, age and profession is displayed. The best part? When the capsule gets to the surface the tiny red blobs of people on the surface jump and bounce excitedly at your accomplishment. (See photos of the rescue.)

It takes a while. Newsfeed’s time was 12:38, but we took a couple breaks to stretch our arms (hey, it’s quite tough on the wrists!). But as a fellow Newsfeeder said, “Chile didn’t give up and neither will you!!!”

If you don’t have the patience to play until the end, here’s what happens: They tell you, in Spanish, that you succeeded in saving all the miners and display a stick figure who, though he doesn’t seem all that pleased with your accomplishment, says “f*** yea.”

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/14/chilean-miners-the-video-game/#ixzz12P9bYFnk

From time.com

Gotta Love Those Crazy Chileans!

And then of course I found this foreign newspaper. Completely different ends of the spectrum huh?

And what’s the deal with the panda ad? All pandas want to be cheetahs? Or do they want to be Hondas?

Details About ’30 Rock’s’ Live Show Thursday Night

“30 Rock” will be telecast live tonight, The New York Times ArtsBeat blog reports.

The live show  will be performed twice: once for the Eastern and Central time zones, and a second time for Western and Mountain time zones.

According to the article, “30 Rock” Executvie Producer Robert Carlock said, “We’re actually making little changes – I don’t want to get into too many details, but these little flashback elements, or the fake commercial when we throw to commercial, we’ll change them for the West Coast.” He added that the show will still have the flashbacks for which ’30 Rock’ is well known, explaining, “we’ll do live flashbacks with a different actor or actress playing Jack or Liz or whoever. We can’t do as much of it, but we’ve got a couple little weird live elements that we’re trying out to make it feel that way.”

Carlock then told the Times that this Thursday’s live episode came about because “NBC called our bluff, and Studio 8H was open and we figured, we’ve got to do this.” The idea started when the show did a live benefit at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Manhattan during the writers’ strike, he adds. “We did two performances of it, and it just confirmed everything we knew about our actors – how great they are in front of an audience as well as in front of a single camera, which is such a different set of skills,” Carlock said.