question of the day: What do the FBI, DHS, and IPR hope to achieve with their new antipiracy warnings on Region 1 DVDs?
Beyond ratcheting up the national fear level and promoting a state of endless, unwinnable war, that is.
creeping fascism
why The Avengers opened a week earlier outside the U.S. and Canada (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Amazon’s spam ebook problem (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw this weekend…
racism! alive and well all over pop culture! (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Parents Television Council does not want children to see Bully, at all, ever (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
wtf: Egyptian government shuts down Internet access in Egypt
And American politicians want to give the U.S. president the power to do nearly the same thing, without judicial oversight. Be afraid…
creeping fascism: “There’s a soldier in all of us”
This Call of Duty: Black Ops ad has been bothering me. There most certainly is not “a soldier in all of us,” even if we like to play military style computer games. So why does this ad campaign — and this game — resonant with audiences?
wtf: Keith Olbermann off the air?!
Is it time to be scared yet?
what he said: Pentagon Papers’ Daniel Ellsberg…
…in a press release about Wikileaks and Julian Assange, rejecting the mantra “Pentagon Papers good; WikiLeaks material bad”…
creeping fascism: Wikileaks’ Julian Assange arrested in London
I find it totally fascinating that Interpol — who had Assange on its most-wanted list — has begun to take such an interest in simple rape cases. I look forward, in fact, to all the governments that have been involved in pursuing and prosecuting Assange for rape taking this crime so seriously from now on…
