There’s gonna be some sort of super roller coaster opening at Universal Studios in Florida next year. Drudge picked it up, so it must be newsworthy. Not only will it be the tallest in the Orlando area (wow!), but riders will be able to obtain, which probably means “buy,” a YouTube-friendly video of their entire […]

There’s gonna be some sort of super roller coaster opening at Universal Studios in Florida next year. Drudge picked it up, so it must be newsworthy. Not only will it be the tallest in the Orlando area (wow!), but riders will be able to obtain, which probably means “buy,” a YouTube-friendly video of their entire trip on the ride. You’ll also be able to choose a soundtrack for the ride, making it even more perfect for YouTube. Plenty of My Chemical Romance (are they still big?) playing during teens’ trips, plenty of stupid indie rock for the 20-somethings and whatever it is that 30-year-old listen to.

The ride is currently scheduled to open next January. Oh, and it’ll be called Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit. See how they purposely misspelt “rocket” there? Clever!

High-Tech Roller Coaster Will Hover Over Heads At Orlando Theme Park [WKMG Orlando via Drudge Report]

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How massive and disgustingly opulent does a yacht have to be to be considered a private island? This huge and disgusting. Gizmag has a piece this day on Wally’s luxury yachts and their 325 foot flagship. While Paul Allen’s Octopus is bigger at 410 feet, the Wally Gigayacht can be oufitted, with pools, tennis courts, mini soccer fields, or the garden you see above. And of course, room for 40 crew, 24 guests, a helipad, and two 45-foot speedboats that deploy out the back, powered by the blood of the poor. [Gizmag]

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A decision, one way or the other, on the proposed XM-Sirus merger should be reached by the end of the month. So says Sen. Arlen Spector, the ranking [Republican] member on the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Pat Leahy is the chairman of the committee, it should be noted.) He made an appearance on the Howard Stern […]

A decision, one way or the other, on the proposed XM-Sirus merger should be reached by the end of the month. So says Sen. Arlen Spector, the ranking [Republican] member on the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Pat Leahy is the chairman of the committee, it should be noted.) He made an appearance on the Howard Stern Show earlier today and tried to explain why no decision has been made just yet, well over a year since the merger was first announced.

There’s two primary reasons why the merger is still in limbo. One, the relevant parties are still considering the consequences of letting the only two satellite radio companies merge. Meaning, of course, that the anti-merger lobby has had at least some success in slowing down the approval process. (Not that regular radio has done anything, in my estimation, in the interim to make its product any more attractive.) Two, there just doesn’t seem to be any sense of urgency to decide. Lives aren’t at stake—livelihoods, perhaps—and maybe constituents back home want to see more work being done to “fix” the economy than using man-hours on an entertainment industry merger. I totally invented that last point, but it seems plausible.

Presumably, Sen. Specter was only speaking for the Judiciary Committee. That still leaves the FCC and Justice itself to chime in.

Personally, I think this whole escapade has exposed how technologically ignorant some of our elected representatives appear to be. “What’s this here satellite radio thing? Is it like regular radio?” Well, sorta, but there’s more to it than that. Then you’ve got the likes of the NAB throwing its cash around, trying to convince the relevant parties that a single satellite radio company will kill competition, when in reality regular radio is up against iPods and other portable players, cellphones that play music and people listening to streaming music services while at work. Who’s gonna sit in their vehicle or at their desk and listen to some awful, corporate approved, woefully generic playlist, at the mercy of commercials, when you can hear your own awful playlist on your nano or in your iTunes library?

Just decide already.

Sen. Arlen Spector: Merger decision by end of month [Orbitcast]

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