Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Hollywood Filters...If You Have Any

I need a "Hollywood filter". I am sure there is something available that would suit my needs. I mean, you can get pop-up filters, I just installed an anti-flash filter for Netscape, you can get anti-porn filters, you can get software that filters out junk emails. We have PVRs that can skip annoying and unsolicited commercials (actually, what commercial is solicited?)

Is there anything that can filter out "Hollywood" news items or celebrity articles? I am so sick and tired of being bombarded by news about such and such celebrity, and so forth. Do people not have better things to do in their free time than to read about the absolutely trite lives of celebrities? Why do people care so much - is it because they feel their lives are so uneventful that somehow they have to get the "dirt" on someone else? I wonder whether many people are simply natural voyeurs that way - look at how the reality TV shows have such an audience - is it because people seem to want to make a connection between them and some reality show contestant? I don't know - I've never been into reality shows and find that even at work, when people start talking about what celebrity X is doing in his/her life, I try to find something else to do to take me away from the area.

It's a shame that actors and singers and sports athletes and such get put on such pedastals. It's not like they did anything admirable. How often do you hear the latest gossip on the most recent Nobel prize winners? You probably don't even know their names (that's OK, I don't either, but that re-iterates the point, doesn't it? I mean, I don't know who the latest inventor or some medical cure is, yet I am familiar with the name "Lindsay Lohan" and "Justin Timberlake", yet I don't even know who these freaking people are, nor do I care. I just need to find a way to filter out any mention of them when I go to cnn or check my yahoo mail. I use Yahoo web mail and everytime I log in, I get the latest on these teeny-bopper celebrities, right in my face. It is uninvited and unfortunately, I have to train myself to just go directly to mail.

If you know of a celebrity filter, let me know (so that if you go to CNN, CBC, Globall, CTV, Fox, etc., I will never see anything on such and such celebrity - to be defined in a pre-scripted list). It also has to work to remove this junk from the Yahoo mail pages. If it works well and I am satisfied, I will give you some cash for the recommendation.

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