Knock three times: A new PBS miniseries, “Pioneers of Television,” salutes the performers who blazed new trails on the tube — folks such as Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, and Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Right now you’re asking yourself, “Tony Orlando and Dawn? What were they honored for? Outstanding Achievement in Moustaches and Yellow Bell-Bottoms?” (Actually, they were the first minoÂrity singing group with a prime-time variety series.)
Now they feel better: People got a chance to shrug off bad memories of 2007 by feeding them into the maw of a giant shredder in New York’s Times Square.
As a psychiatrist helpfully explains, it’s a “banishing ritual” — a way for folks to express and let go of what’s bugging them, like the woman who shredded a photo of her ex-fiance and his new girlfriend.
Yeah, but if this banishing ritual is so great, how come it doesn’t work with credit-card debt? Or paycheck garnishments? Or the Iowa caucuses?
RIP Netscape: The first commercial Web browser, now a moribund shadow of its former self, was taken out back and shot Friday.
Netscape was 13 years old. In Internet years, that’s 234.
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