Monday links
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yendiQuick impression for you: Caw, caw. Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!
Top Dollar remains one of my all-time favorite movie villains.
And no, Veteran's Day is not a paid holiday for me. I don't think I've ever had a job where it was, actually.
Anyway, some links:
1. Who the fuck needs privacy, anyway, asks "intelligence" deputy. When I write a link like that pointing to CNN and not The Onion, something's really wrong.
2. Evanier has one of the best rebuttals to some of the "the strikers are silly" arguments I've seen.
3. John Scalzi visited the Creation Museum, and has written up a nice report. As he notes, it's "an attractive and diverting repository for a massive load of horseshit." Alas, we live in a country that likes its horseshit.
4. The Jets didn't lose yesterday! Yes, I'll take any silver lining I can get.
5. Free McDonald's Extra Value Meal for filling out a quick survey. Of course, whether eating at McDonald's is ever worth it is another question.
6. Reagan's "Innocent mistakes."
7. Because you demanded it: MC Hammer launches a social networking site dedicated to dancing.
8. Mostly for personal reference: The New England History Festival. In Watertown. Two days after Thanksgiving.
9. A short but good interview with the director of the AstroBoy movie.
10. Finally, Amazon's added two more DVD sales to the ever-growing list. There's an up-to-50% off hit movies and TV series sale (with Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, The Jungle Book, Meet the Robinsons, Bridge to Terabithia, and more). And there's an up-to-60% off TV sale, focusing on four older shows: Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Leave it to Beaver, and the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Top Dollar remains one of my all-time favorite movie villains.
And no, Veteran's Day is not a paid holiday for me. I don't think I've ever had a job where it was, actually.
Anyway, some links:
1. Who the fuck needs privacy, anyway, asks "intelligence" deputy. When I write a link like that pointing to CNN and not The Onion, something's really wrong.
2. Evanier has one of the best rebuttals to some of the "the strikers are silly" arguments I've seen.
3. John Scalzi visited the Creation Museum, and has written up a nice report. As he notes, it's "an attractive and diverting repository for a massive load of horseshit." Alas, we live in a country that likes its horseshit.
4. The Jets didn't lose yesterday! Yes, I'll take any silver lining I can get.
5. Free McDonald's Extra Value Meal for filling out a quick survey. Of course, whether eating at McDonald's is ever worth it is another question.
6. Reagan's "Innocent mistakes."
7. Because you demanded it: MC Hammer launches a social networking site dedicated to dancing.
8. Mostly for personal reference: The New England History Festival. In Watertown. Two days after Thanksgiving.
9. A short but good interview with the director of the AstroBoy movie.
10. Finally, Amazon's added two more DVD sales to the ever-growing list. There's an up-to-50% off hit movies and TV series sale (with Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, The Jungle Book, Meet the Robinsons, Bridge to Terabithia, and more). And there's an up-to-60% off TV sale, focusing on four older shows: Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Leave it to Beaver, and the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.
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Date: 2007-11-12 04:21 pm (UTC)The end of privacy.
Date: 2007-11-12 04:54 pm (UTC)David Brin wrote a great book exploring it in depth a decade or so ago that suggests not just why privacy as we knew it is no longer possible but also suggesting ways to ameliorate the situation as much as possible.
The same information that everyone makes a great load of noise about the government collecting is already being collected and used by private industry. The genie is out of the bottle so we might as well make nuclear power plants.
Look at the revolution in policing that the public cctv cameras are having in britain.
Re: The end of privacy.
Date: 2007-11-12 05:02 pm (UTC)Yup, the Brit police can now watch in detail the 6 million crimes a year they refuse to pursue.
I don't hold the UK up to be a bastion of anything regarding police matters. They are an incredible grand banner for governmental interference, however.
Re: The end of privacy.
Date: 2007-11-12 05:57 pm (UTC)Just look at the results of the attempted bombing of Glasgow Airport.
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Date: 2007-11-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-12 08:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-12 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-12 11:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, have fun 1. finding out who did it and 2. actually getting enough evidence to prosecute them in court!
I really, really hate those who have the "if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't care that the government listens to it" mentality. Laws should state only what the government can do, not what it can't do. And Congress is passing shit way too fast, so I blame them as well.
And yes, Top Dollar is great. :)
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Date: 2007-11-13 04:01 am (UTC)There's a difference between that and "I'm not doing anything I think I should be ashamed of"
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-12 11:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, Top Dollar was one of filmdom's great villains. The whole movie is fucking great. And what a pile of stupide sequels it gave birth to.