The Pub Olympics by Hoop’s Bar went down Sunday, Tony got a ton of great footage, particularly of the bike race. As soon as he gets it up, I’ll mirror it here, it’s pretty goddamn entertaining.

On an interwebs related note, check out www.hulu.com, it’s a site where you can stream entire episodes of TV shows, watch full length films, and check out excerpts of both.

It’s completely legit, it’s backed up by the networks btw, I’m not advocating piracy (well, not in this particular case…)

Overall, it’s a great site. It’s very cool to be able to legally and easily stream TV shows, as opposed to fucking with torrents and maintaining a ratio and worrying about getting a letter from the MPAA. It’s not perfect, but it represents an amazing advance in the way the networks distribute content. A few small improvements would make a huge difference in overall usability. Since I’m self important and think everyone wants to hear my opinion, I’ll tell you all about it.

First off, it needs some kind of cache for slower connections. My DSL is full of fail and AIDS, so I have to open a vid, then pause it for five minutes to get smooth playback. Some kind of integrated cache for the top video in your queue would be great.

The highest res I’ve seen is 480i. I understand, from a bandwidth standpoint, and I don’t particularly care, since I don’t have an HD vid card anyway, but I’m sure it’s a common complaint.

Also, the selection isn’t great. Stuff is added all the time, but there’s still a limited amount of shows, and an even more limited amount of episodes. More networks getting on board would solve the issue of shows, but the episodes are a more complex matter. I understand not wanting to upload every single episode of a series, as that’s probably going to hurt DVD sales. On the other hand, they are selling advertising there, and I assume a lot of people will still want the box sets with extras and in high quality. Also, a lot of people don’t know or care to know how to get video from their computer onto their TV, and don’t care to watch TV on a smaller screen when they have a bigscreen TV sitting right there. It will be interesting to see how it works out, hopefully they keep the ads limited.

Overall, I like it a lot, I’m definately going to be a frequent visitor.