Film, media and art links
An ad that was not quite thought through …
About how originality overwhelmed beauty.
A city in Montana [tried to] requires prospective employees to hand over their Facebook™ passwords[, but has since retreated from the idea].
Remembering Farrah Fawcett.
Remembering Rocky and The Karate Kid.
Asking a spectacularly and offensively stupid question.
Broadway is struggling with the notion of having some diversity … of opinion. About that.
A newspaper ad campaign using near-worthless Zimbabwean banknotes to print billboards has won an award.
The Oz Federal government has set its sights on censoring computer games. Via longi.
A piece on Michael Jackson, aka Wacko Jacko, published just before died. An obituary, on him as a prisoner of fame. Apparently, he was consuming lots of powerful pharmaceuticals, a result reported to be confirmed by the autopsy. About the awful physical decay and his greedy entourage. Having an entourage significantly drawn from the Nation of Islam "looking after" a gay man was not a good start.
More bullying from Canadian Human Rights (sic) apparatchik. How things ended up. Mark Steyn is happy to debate the CHRC: If you schmooze enough Third World thug states, it’s not surprising your postmodern cultural relativism starts to drift past the point of no return. As Commissar Lynch primly notes in her report, America’s First Amendment absolutism on free speech is out of step with the “growing global consensus”-that would be the “growing global consensus” represented by the CHRC and its “distinguished guests.” Take Sweden and Cameroon, split the difference, and that should be enough human rights for anyone.
The six-month old BBC Farsi service has been a major source of information for the protestors. Lists of arrested Iranian journalists. The steady change of views of a NYT columnist from “we should engage with Iran” to “they’re a bunch of theocratic thugs”. Back when he was putting a positive gloss on how to treat with the regime, he failed to distinguish between the Iranian Supreme Leader responding (Khamenei also quieted the crowd when it began its ritual “Death to America” chant) or inciting “death to America” chants.
About how originality overwhelmed beauty.
A city in Montana [tried to] requires prospective employees to hand over their Facebook™ passwords[, but has since retreated from the idea].
Remembering Farrah Fawcett.
Remembering Rocky and The Karate Kid.
Asking a spectacularly and offensively stupid question.
Broadway is struggling with the notion of having some diversity … of opinion. About that.
A newspaper ad campaign using near-worthless Zimbabwean banknotes to print billboards has won an award.
The Oz Federal government has set its sights on censoring computer games. Via longi.
A piece on Michael Jackson, aka Wacko Jacko, published just before died. An obituary, on him as a prisoner of fame. Apparently, he was consuming lots of powerful pharmaceuticals, a result reported to be confirmed by the autopsy. About the awful physical decay and his greedy entourage. Having an entourage significantly drawn from the Nation of Islam "looking after" a gay man was not a good start.
More bullying from Canadian Human Rights (sic) apparatchik. How things ended up. Mark Steyn is happy to debate the CHRC: If you schmooze enough Third World thug states, it’s not surprising your postmodern cultural relativism starts to drift past the point of no return. As Commissar Lynch primly notes in her report, America’s First Amendment absolutism on free speech is out of step with the “growing global consensus”-that would be the “growing global consensus” represented by the CHRC and its “distinguished guests.” Take Sweden and Cameroon, split the difference, and that should be enough human rights for anyone.
The six-month old BBC Farsi service has been a major source of information for the protestors. Lists of arrested Iranian journalists. The steady change of views of a NYT columnist from “we should engage with Iran” to “they’re a bunch of theocratic thugs”. Back when he was putting a positive gloss on how to treat with the regime, he failed to distinguish between the Iranian Supreme Leader responding (Khamenei also quieted the crowd when it began its ritual “Death to America” chant) or inciting “death to America” chants.