Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The 3D ‘Star Wars’ Conversions Could End After ‘The Phantom Menace’ – I honestly have no great desire to see ANY of the SW movies in 3D.
- Newlyweds: TSA Ruined Our Honeymoon Over Bottle Of Contact Lens Solution – There’s a reason I keep going to the airport unreasonably early. You never know when you might be delayed beyond all reason by random, unpredictable, capricious events — like the TSA.
- Do Not Body-Pierce Kittens And Sell Them As ‘Goth’ – Ugh.
- HTC Desire to get Gingerbread—once HTC shrinks bloated Sense UI – I understand that phone manufacturers want to present some sort of value-add to their customers — but, yeah, Sense doesn’t do much but slow things down and add a lot of icons.
- Deluged with calls, state legislators take WiscNet off death row – Guardedly good news.
- Did the Bush administration try to spy illegally on Juan Cole? – On #4, I’d bet (sadly), “No,” given precedent.
- Former CIA Admits They Sought Information To Discredit Juan Cole For Bashing Bush – Well, there’s a huge surprise. Sigh
- Black Republican drops GOP over racist attack on Obama: John Aravosis (DC)
- Wii U won’t play DVD/Blu-ray movies – I suspect they will simply go the streaming route (as is possible with current Wii units). I think it’s a good move by Nintendo.
- Arkansas Atheists Charged for Bus Ads – Nice blaming the victim there, CATA!
- French proposal: any URL to be arbitrarily blacklisted without due process – I’m sure there are plenty of countries eying the proposal enviously.
- Southwest Wildfires Are ‘The Cost Of Climate Change’ – But since they are costs borne in common (unless the GOP cuts disaster relief, of course), there will be little push to actually do something about it.
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Re: Item #5: There’s still PLENTY to despair at in Wisconsin budget, like $1 Billion (yup that’s a B) reduction in school aid to start.
Well, yes. That was one small battle in a much bigger war.
Nobody will ever be able to say that “elections don’t matter” again, given the radical dismantling the GOP has done in statehouses and the US House in just a couple of years.
1. I haven’t seen a 3-D movie since the 80s. I would probably have gone to see Episode IV in 3D (I think Ep V would be best, if only for the asteroid field scene), but there’s no way I will pay the high price to see I-III (high in both financial cost and aggravation). I knew this might mean that the original trilogy never got revamped, but I’m OK with that.