TiVo Redesigns Search Function, Wants to be the 'Google of TV'

TiVo Redesigns Search Function, Wants to be the 'Google of TV'
Author: Jose Fermoso
Source: Wired Jan. 10 2009

This article is about the new design and features which will be available on TiVo. TiVo is (under my understanding) a TV program which allows you to find the movie you’re looking for just like on the internet. For example, one is looking for Sweet Home Alabama, then they just type in Sweet, and all movies with Sweet will come up, just like in a Firefox toolbar. The layout is designed like a website; on the left is the toolbar with the alphabet and the Space button, so that one can type in the movie with her or his remote control. Then the movies will pop up in the middle and on can click on it for more information such as: rating and plot of the movie. This is one of the new features which will be on the new TiVo. Nothing is taken off of the old TiVo, but just new things have been added, which makes it good for the people who preferred it the old way. Furthermore TiVo promises that they will try to boost up the speed of the TV search toolbar.
Personally I think that this new TiVo is not a good idea because it eliminates social contact. One does not have to look in a newspaper for the cinema program, because everything is already online to be watched. The old fashioned TV has disappeared and instead a Search engine TV is being made, so that one doesn't even have to flip through the channels to find the perfect channel. All of these new electronics are destroying the social life of people and the old fashion way of relaxing in front of the TV has disappeared.

Is Pride of Baghdad an Allegory?

An allegory is something with represents an abstract or spiritual meaning through a different form. For example Pride of Baghdad. I think that POB is an allegory because the comic is a true story about four lions which are able to escape the zoo after a bombing in Baghdad. Even though at the end of the comic the lions die due to the lack of previous knowledge on how to survive in freedom. Animals which always live in the zoo do not know how to handle the wild-life, since the food has always been brought to them. Exactly this happens to the lions which are able to escape the zoo.
POB is an allegory because the lions do not represent the lions which escaped the zoo in spring of 2003, but they represent the different people which are present in Baghdad. The comic describes the situation which is going on in Baghdad without hurting anyone feeling. The author decided to use the strongest animal of the Jungle to represent a group of people which are in the Iraq war. Each animal in the comic represents one type of group in the comic, for example I believe that the antelopes represent the people who have no idea why there is war, meaning the children who are getting killed every day because they are at the wrong spot at the wrong time.
Furthermore, I think that everyone should read this comic, to make them understand that this war is not the past but still the present.