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South Park Studios has done something remarkable today. They have made all of South Park’s episodes availble on their website - to anyone in the world, not just the US. There have been numerous examples where movie studios and tv channels have given audiences the possibility to watch shows online, but they are usually limited to the national level, due to legal issues.

It will definitely be interesting to see how South Park’s success will pick up in the near future and what sort of traffic they will be reaching when all the pirate downloads are suddenly made obsolete.

You seldom find good stuff. Tonight I’ve found it I reckon. It rocks :)

Update: As the sharpest have realised the time of the post - I wasn’t at my best after a long night out. :)

James’ post on re-inventing Hot Or Not is a good comment from a founder’s perspective how sometimes you have to give up a lot inorder to win. A definite read for all start-up enthusiasts.

Michael Arrington from Techcrunch also points out an interesting fact: Up to ten marriages per day can be tracked to couples who originally met at the site.

Update: James has added part II and part III to his initial post.

I was reading Jack Trout’s Differentiate or Die after a late supper, when I noticed the a short citation to Mike Markkula. Markkula is a definite Finnish surname and thus I jumped to my Mac to Google more info for it. I found the following;

In 1977, Markkula brought his business expertise along with USD$250,000 to buy one-third of Apple Computer. He also brought in Apple Computer’s first CEO, Michael Scott, then took the job himself from 1981 to 1983. Markkula served as chairman from 1985 until 1997, when a new board was formed after Jobs returned to the company.

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The Finnish Wikipedia tells us that his grandparents were Finnish expatriotes that moved to the US in 1883.

Someone pulled together a diagram showing the expenditure of the US government budget. There’s a larger pic here - cool, yet very scary. Puts the military spending into perspective when you compare it to the education expenditure for example.