Sunday, November 22, 2009

livestation

last week, og left a comment about livestation. i downloaded the program shortly thereafter, but only got to play with it today. it's pretty great if you want to practice a foreign language, or just watch the news from a different perspective. where else would i be able to see the russian arabic language news channel, or al-manar (hezbollah's tv station)?

right now i'm watching a news correspondent from a french news channel try to explain the american health reform debate in arabic.

it's annoying that al-jazeera tv is "not allowed to be displayed in [my] region", whatever the hell that means. the livestation page for the channel says (under the availability tab) "Available worldwide, not USA", how annoying is that? it's not like i can't watch it stream from the al-j page.