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Taking a break from some of my usual topics, I decided to talk about a web project my dad is working on. I think it’s really interesting that he’s working on a web project when his idea of working on a computer is browsing Google Earth and flying a flight simulator (I still need to show my dad the flight simulator in Google Earth).

Well, my dad has started a website to help people with something called Life Settlements. I don’t understand all the details of the process, but it’s basically where you take a life insurance policy and cash it out now. Here’s an example of what my dad could possibly do with a Life Settlement

Male Age: 68 with a $100,000 policy was told by his insurance company that if he surrendered the policy they would only give him $110. After working diligently, we were able to secure $28,000 to add to his retirement. That made a huge difference.

He’s offering a free life settlement appraisal of what your life insurance policy could be worth. A pretty interesting concept when you no longer need your life insurance policy.

This is a little late, but today I came across the Wade Robson routine he danced and choreographed on Dancing with the Stars. Pretty interesting stuff. I’m amazed that Wade was allowed to work on Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. I guess So You Think You Can Dance will need to get better contracts in the future.

I should have added this list of videos that will be initially available on my previous post about Hulu, but here’s the pretty extensive list. Granted, a lot of these videos were already being streamed on NBC.com, but nothing to this magnitude.

Videos Initially Available on Hulu

* 24
* 30 Days
* 30 Rock
* The A-Team
* Adam-12
* Age of Love
* Airwolf
* Alfred Hitchcock Hour
* Alfred Hitchcock Presents
* American Dad!
* Andy Barker P.I.
* Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
* Arrested Development
* Back To You
* Battlestar Galactica
* Battlestar Galactica Classic
* Big Ideas for a Small Planet
* Bionic Woman
* The Blues Brothers
* The Bob Newhart Show
* Bones
* The Breakfast Club
* Breaking Away
* Buck Rogers
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Bulworth
* Chicago Hope
* Chuck
* The Comebacks
* Conan the Barbarian
* Cops
* Death Sentence
* Doogie Howser, M.D.
* Dr. 90210
* Dragnet
* Family Guy
* Firsthand
* Flipping Out
* Fox Movie Channel presents “Casting Session”
* Fox Movie Channel presents “Making a Scene”
* Fox Movie Channel presents “World Premier”
* Friday Night Lights
* Heroes
* Hill Street Blues
* House
* Inside the Actors Studio
* It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
* The Jerk
* Journeyman
* K-Ville
* King Of The Hill
* Kitchen Confidential
* Kitchen Nightmares
* Kojak
* Las Vegas
* Late Night with Conan O’Brien
* Life
* The Loop
* Lost in Space
* Lou Grant
* The Mary Tyler Moore Show
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
* McHale’s Navy
* Miami Vice
* Monk
* Murder One
* My Bare Lady
* My Name is Earl
* Night Gallery
* October Sky
* The Office
* Over There
* Picket Fences
* The Practice
* The Pretender
* Prison Break
* Psych
* Queer Eye
* The Riches
* Rob and Amber: Against the Odds
* Saturday Night Live
* Scrubs
* Sideways
* Simon & Simon
* The Simpsons
* Solitary
* St. Elsewhere
* Stacked
* Standoff
* Talkshow with Spike Feresten
* The Tonight Show
* Vanished
* Weekend at Bernie’s
* WKRP in Cincinnati
* Woody Woodpecker

Today I read on techcrunch about Hulu finally being launched into Beta. I must admit that I hadn’t been interested in Hulu before, but I think it was because Techcrunch’s previous coverage was entertaining, but crappy. Techcrunch should have just said that this is NBC’s and Fox’s method of streaming their TV shows. Essentially competing with ABC (and many others) that are using Move Networks’ technology.

Anyway, I went and checked out Hulu. I hope they release this into beta soon, because everyone knows I love streaming TV on my computer. In fact, I think I’m almost to the point where I watch more TV on my computer than I do on my TV. Just today I was thinking that I need to find a way to connect my computer to my TV since it’s more fun to watch it on my TV.

The latest Hulu blog post has an embedded video of The Office. Here’s the full episode of The Office streamed online

This is going to be pretty cool to watch. Techcrunch said the following about content on Hulu

As for the content on Hulu, TV shows will come from Fox and NBC, and over fifteen cable channels including Bravo, E!, FX, SciFi, Sundance, and USA. Movies will come from Fox and Universal, and following a deal signed just this Friday, from Sony and MGM as well. Hulu says many of its short clips will come from independent content providers, and it’s also signing licensing deals with others such as Smithsonian and the WWE.

That’s a pretty powerful lineup. The video streaming is really interesting too. I don’t mind watching a bit of ads in order to get free tv streamed online.