“In the spring, we’d make meat helmets”
And you thought Dr Evil was kidding in Austin Powers. Apparently not. Check out Hats of Meat
Minority Report
Saw Minority Report yesterday. Good movie, but like it’s spiritual predecessor, Blade Runner, which was also based on a Philip K Dick novel, this one has an obviously tacked-on “they lived happily ever after” ending that needs to be lopped off. Ridley Scott had a chance to do that with his director’s cut; knowing Spielberg, he probably wouldn’t do so.
The movie was especially appropriate at this time in our history, with one of its themes being the government that can’t be trusted. I haven’t read the original book, but I suspect that was played up in the movie.
Blogchalking
I have commented before that I am interested in the ways cyberspace can be mapped to real space. Blogchalking is an effort to bootstrap just this kind of thing. I like it. I’m including their meta tag.
The following is included to get the attention of the search engines:
Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United States, Austin, Hyde Park, Adam, Male, 36-40!
Scalia
From Justice Scalia, a Chilling Vision of Religion’s Authority in America
A tightly argued article on a troubling justice. What do you do with someone like Scalia, who is so obviously brilliant, and yet resolutely channels that brilliance in the most wrongheaded ways?
In the news
A couple of news stories worth pointing at:
Apparently some marketing weasel at Eli Lilly thought it would be a fine idea to send unsolicited samples of prozac through the mail. The mind reels.
Despite the shrill editorializing in spots, this article has some sobering thoughts about the war in Afghanistan.
Internet Radio
Many of you have probably heard the now-old chestnut from John Gilmore that “the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
I’m wondering if we won’t see something similar happen with Internet Radio. As far as I can tell, if a webcaster moved operations offshore, he would pretty much be exempt from the recent CARP ruling unless the new host nation passed similar legislation. Right now I’m listening to Radio Liechtenstein, which I suspect has been unaffected. Perhaps some of the other webcasters I have enjoyed but have now been silenced can take advantage of this. There’s an opportunity here.