Random Linkspam--Politics, Iraq, Asteroids, Xmas already?

[matgb]

• Cory argues that online censorship hurts us all in his Guardian column today
• daniel_davies asks us all to contact our MPs about the Democracy Day for the Iraqi Interpreters and gives contact details and a quick walk through on how to phone them. *cough*some of us have their MPs personal mobile number, but, y'know, for the rest of you[1]*cough*
• Some very worrying

Comments

[matgb]

The operative there is still. It implies we're not that bad yet.

Which bothers me.

But then, when I worked for GW, we had people coming in for a break, and specifically thanking us for not playing the crap.

[yuxonomei]

That's the third post since the beginning of September about Xmarse coming early in livejournal_uk.

My local garden centre has had it's Christmas stock in since the middle of August.

[matgb]

It's not on my main filter, and I'm not backreading all of them at the moment, communities I pick up on if I'm up to date generally.

But, y'know, Fairytale is cool, but not in October, that's just silly.

[webofevil]

> George Takei got himself a rock named after him

Also “Monty Python”, as well as the individual members of the team (“Terrygilliam”, “Johncleese” etc). Plus “Doctorwatson” and “TARDIS”.

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html

[matgb]

See that list? That list is huge. And also very very cool. Didn't know any of these things, danke.

[rhythmaning]

Had I not watched Heroes last night, I wouldn't have had a clue who George Takei was. But I did, and I do.