Tuesday Linkdump

[yendi]

Busy day, so very quick linkdump before meetings.

1. I'm finally sold on Democracy Player as a viable video podcast/youtube platform. The current version is actually functional and fun. Also, the program will soon be renamed as Miro, and naming a product after one of my favorite artists is a good thing.

2. Ray Stevens, Wingnut (ganked from Mark Evanier).

3. Sometimes, Marvel action figures suck even without making nasty gender statements. In the Dr. Doom action figure from the upcoming FF2 movie, we see Victor revealing his Orkian origins and sucking up a puddle of water through his hand.

4. For anyone else who has read the Darren Shan books, there are a bunch of bonus stories, tie-ins, and scenes that were cut on his website. Very cool (and he tells you where they fit in, so you don't encounter any spoilers).

5. Latest addition to my RSS feeds: The NY Times Screens Blog, maintained by Virginia Heffernan. Damned good stuff.

6. And, as mentioned before, my RSS reader of choice is Google Reader.

7. Ronald Moore on the end of The Sopranos (ganked from the discussion thread over at Making Light).

8. Teen arrested for recording police at a traffic stop. Even less excusable than the actions of the cops is the behavior of fucktard DA Jaime Keating (always a surname that conveys integrity), who has the balls to say, "But people who do things like this do so at their own peril."

9. Yet another (good) article on free fiction and how it affects sales (the focus here is on Cory Doctorow, Peter Watts, and David Wellington.

10. Wireless energy!

Comments

[amokk]

#10: I've been waiting for wireless energy since Starcraft. For Ai'ur!

[glowkitty]

Holy shit, that song is offensive. It's not like when people write gross/tacky parody lyrics and falsely attribute them to Weird Al, though... he put his name on this. Gah.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

They probably love it in Branson.

"Why look, it's Chad Sexington!"

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

3. Sometimes, Marvel action figures suck even without making nasty gender statements. In the Dr. Doom action figure from the upcoming FF2 movie, we see Victor revealing his Orkian origins and sucking up a puddle of water through his hand.

Victor von Doom: sexier than the Brawny paper towel guy.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

the whole recording thing? I guess it varies from state to state, it used to be (I think it still is) that if one person is privy that the conversation is being recorded, then it is legal.

I personally carry a small recorder with me just for such situations. I know way to many women who've been pulled over by cops for bogus traffic violations and then the officer says they'll forgo the ticket in exchange for sexual favors. Many of these women have said write me the ticket, go ahead, and then played the tape in court.

if the COP can record the crime, and not notify them until well into the whole situation, then why can't a CITIZEN record something going on? After all, wouldn't the two tapes match??? (oh wait, NOOO, not after the cop edited his!)

Feh.

And I don't know HOW many battered women have used hidden recorders to document beatings and abuse because husbands would rip phones out of the wall, etc. to keep the issue from being reported in action, and that DAMN WELL should stand up in court. It's very simple for them to determine if the material has been tampered with, and for our own safety, we should be allowed the same methods the government wants to enforce on us.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

That depends on the rules on wiretapping in the state. I know here in MA, men who have taped harassing police stops have had that evidence thrown out, except that it's used to prosecute them for illegal wiretapping- the documented harassing cops got off scot-free because the evidence was illegally obtained. That sucks.