I tripped over this on YouTube last week and I've been enjoying it ever since.

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The above is both hilarious (Happy ending for all them white girls.) and a good analysis. Some of the others are as good if not better. Enjoy!

The new Salon review, updated since the earlier one at Sundance, is here.

And the Rotten Tomatoes reviews, including the earlier Salon one, are here.

Again, I encourage everyone interested in internet rights to see it.

I just came from an AFI Docs screening of this movie. It talks about the life and activism of Aaron Swartz, and I cannot praise it highly enough. The film goes on wide release next Friday, including a paid video on demand option, and, for those of you in Boston, they are arranging a showing with a discussion panel at MIT which should be ( Read more... )

The online magazine Slate has become even more click-bait focused, and today's eye-roller is about adults reading YA books. I've read the article and I disagree with the author, especially since her entire argument seems to boil down to "things should stay in their own boxes ( Read more... )

There's an article at Salon about a woman whose citizenship application has been rejected because she's a conscientious objector and the belief is not based in religion ( Read more... )

Living in Germany and Belgium in the 1980s was weird. In Germany, I had access to Stars and Stripes because I worked on a military base, but in Belgium there was no convenient newsagent with The International Herald-Tribune for daily news. Instead, I relied on a weekly trip to the Hauptbahnhof in Mannheim (about three miles by the route I walked ( Read more... )

In August of this year, we will reach the centenary of the beginning of World War I ( Read more... )

The head of our IT department just asked what an internet cookie was.

A teacher is on suspension in South Carolina for reading Ender's Game to her class. The Guardian has an article.