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{ Monthly Archives } June 2007

A Mighty Heart

Saw A Mighty Heart earlier tonight. Got a free pass to a “sneak preview” to see it. It was… powerful…ly painful. I found myself too wrapped up in figuring out whose narrative voice the movie captures. Is it really the widow’s voice? I couldn’t keep that critical thinking up during Jolie’s wailing at the news [...]

links for 2007-06-18

YouTube - RickRoll’D
I. Have been. Rickrolled. *sigh*
(tags: rofl rickrolled)

links for 2007-06-11

Personal History: How I Spent the War: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
He could do fifty knee bends without getting tired. There was nothing, no flaw, to sully the picture. But what made him an exception was that he—his name eludes my memory—was an insubordinate: he refused to take part in rifle drill; worse still, [...]

links for 2007-06-10

A Patent Lie - New York Times
Kick. Ass.
(tags: software patents)

links for 2007-06-09

A Conversation with Justin Kan of Justin.tv - 10 Zen Monkeys
JEFF DIEHL: You can do some horrible crimes on a laptop! Didn’t they realize? JUSTIN: They did not, actually. When we were trying to explain how someone spoofed our number with relay, one of them said, “I don’t understand technology. I just shoot pe
(tags: Privacy [...]

links for 2007-06-05

LOL: Recent ITS Change Notices
UNC ITS change notices as captions on flikr pictures of cute cats
(tags: lolcats its mashup)

links for 2007-06-04

Truthdig - Reports - Repudiation, Not Impeachment
This is very long (for an intarweb article), but very much worth reading. If even one of you reads it and talks to me about it, I’ll be happy.
(tags: bush impeachment)