cleaverb!s world

We have updated the links to music videos in 20 of our
top 25 artists. It seems that UMG is deleting many videos from "official" artists pages... Nelly Furtado had every video removed.
It brings up the question in my mind, are we sharing creative, artists
material, or are just plain exploiting them ? You decide.
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The new Blest song that leaked is worth a listen. You can find pages
of links to mp3s of the song. Simply go to google, or bing, yahoo! ,
type in " blestyaschie - shar " without the quotes .. hit search.

I can't say how the song would be accepted in Russian mainstream music..
but the freshness of Marina's voice is exciting!
And we do not promote 'illegal' activity ,like stealing songs and uploading them. did it really happen that way ? i don't know.

We just spent the past week in a place with no internet connection.
Well, my cellphone lets me connect for $1 a minute. But that is
my fault, for not adding a better data package to the contract.
I hate to say it, but i had time to think about things.
Could not think of anything i would change on cleaverb.net .
Instead, i wasted my time designing a 'dream' house.
And playing several old , old - we are talking DOS games.
Scrabble, Space Invaders, Battleship, Block Breaker, Reversi,
Anti-Ballistic Missile Command, chess, and more games.
It was fun to recall how simple games used to be.
I also played some World Empire V and tons of Slay.
Those are great games that don't require human competitors or
internet connection. Or a CD in your drive, for that matter.
Alas, I also spent many hours playing Star Wars: Empire at War .
But I can't get beyond 'easy' mode. The AIs get powerful on medium.
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So, we shall have our 'Top 5' uploaded around the 20th,
and we will try to add at least one more update to the cleaverb-dot-net
home page before then.
Happy Holidays !

November has been a movie marathon for cleaverb.
We started a blog on Vox to list the movies we have watched in November.
We just accidently found Vox, and it looks really cool.
Check my vox blog at : Cleaverbs Vox .
There are around 40 titles listed... but we would have to add -
9 Sherlock Holmes movies from the 1940s,
25 Abbott n Costello movies, wow. They made around 45 all together.
3 Charlie Chan flicks from the 1930,
5 Marx Brothers films,
and
9 Godzilla movies from the 1960-70s.
we are talkin' bleary-eyed, all day all night hardcore movie extravaganza. This has to be a first, at least in my lifetime.
Oh, I forgot to mention over 18 hours of Dr. Who and a few
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 , all of which are free to watch
with a Netflix account.
Mmm, maybe we should take a look at the Guiness World Record for
movies in a month.. who would not want to hold that record ?

We have decided upon a name for our A to Z index of music , it is now called Music Corner .
There is not much change, except for a nice title graphic made at
CoolText .. We briefly thought of
moving the pages over to .org, and changing the background, etc,etc.
Then we changed our minds.
We did some minor changes to the look of our TV Corner ,
which involved 'centering' the content. then we added a small graphic
to the alphabet pages and added a nav bar at the top of those 26 pages.
Site navigation is important to us ! It's better than always going 'back'. We also added about 25 new shows, most of which are from the
late 1940s and early fifties. Interesting that the Internet Archive has many
great old shows to download. We found 30 episodes of "The Lucy Show"
there, among many titles, check them out ! Each episode is about
175MB , not bad for viewing on a computer.
And related, we found and read an article about the early days of
television broadcasting in the usa. It just seemed odd that so many
TV shows started in 1949.. so we looked it up. And yes, that was the year when what we know today as TV programs began. Sixty years ago !
Before that was mostly 'low-res'. Read the article on Wikipedia at:
History of Television.
We like our new "BEE" . He appears to be helpful and able.
Hope he/she can write hyper-text !

I don't know what to say, really. It started out innocent enough;
we were watching a bunch (10) Dr Who features for free on NetFlix,
which you do have to have an account to view.
at the time, we were finishing our TV Corner section, and i started
looking for ways to watch TV shows online.
I found so much stuff, that we hooked up a vcr to the S-video jack on
our computer...and started recording episodes to tape.
Thought it would be cool to have a classic TV tape. Then, i guess i got greedy, and i ended up making 7, 4 hour tapes that each have :
Gilligans Island, I Dream of Genie, Get Smart , Lucille Ball Show,
Hogans Heroes , Bewitched , Beverly Hillbillies , My Three Sons,
and finish with an episode of My Favorite Martian.

And then it snow-balled: I started finding full length movies online!
It started out with the Marx Brothers and Sherlock Holmes ...
and i even found several of my rarest favorites !
Gargoyles, The Night Stalker (TV movie,led to the show),
and now i just figured out something that has been eluding me for years: A 1969 movie named Doppelganger or in usa -
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun ..
There is a scene where one astronaut discovers that doors open the wrong way, light switches are on the wrong side too.
Really weird stuff !
I guess it was time for a break from music ??
Hope i 'get well' soon .