Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Socks and Barney | The Devil You Say! – SIGH
- Urban surveillance as a game? – Okay, slighly mollified that the particular feeds aren’t identified — but it’s still creepy as hell. “We need to have CCTV everywhere” now followed by “And we need people to watch it.”
- One Nation Under Cthulhu – Alas, without annotations.
- The Nobel Prize and the Hawthorne Effect: Peter David
- Gingrich gripes that Obama doesn’t have an ambassador to Brazil yet (because he’s being blocked by DeMint).: Matt Corley
- New “Game” Encourages Secret Police-Style Spying : The Escapist – (1) This reads like a dystopian novel concept, (2) I’m appalled, (3) It makes perfect sense, (4) See #2.
- The Escapist : Sewing for Superheroes – Money graf: “Much has been made recently of the oversaturation of movies based on comic book superheroes. While I certainly wish more of them were better, I welcome this oversaturation precisely because of the above-described concepts: I want the movie-going public to become saturated in superheroes so that the ability to utilize tropes will kick in – which, from where I sit, will help all superhero movies to streamline their narratives and deliver richer and more complex storytelling.”
- Business Class vs. Coach Class – My company only allows coach fare purchase, even for executives. They even frown on frequent flier upgrades, because they don’t want a client to see or hear about our spending their money on fancy air travel.
- Warming up to that Nobel prize – Well said. On the face of it, I just don’t see it. But as an aspirational award, surer. And as a way to induce apoplexy on the Right? Sure.
- Colbert Nation – Heee! Watched this last night.
- Biggest Threats to America’s Youth – EEEK!
- d1.jpg – “Excuse me, Miss, is my order going to be much longer?”
- Disturbing explosives case: Family ran a day care with bomb-making material and neo-Nazi lit in the back – So, of course, we’ll only hear more about this on Fox News if they decide to run with the pot-growing angle.
- How badly designed reputation systems create in-game mafias – People are people wherever you go. And an annoying number of them are dicks.
- Not exactly Nobel Peace Prize material – Actually, very good Nobel Peace Prize material.
- The Stage Play That Almost Made Douglas Adams Panic [Exclusive] – I will confess that H2G2 slips a bit too far into the absurd for my taste, though there are bits of it I love. Maybe that, in fact, is the problem here, as Gaiman relates below: the successful parts of H2G2 are the bits, the small parts, the asides, the color text. If you think too much about what’s going on in an overarching fashion, you miss the good parts and are left with not much. Hence the movies.
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