The water photos I got today make me want to go back to the beach and try every exposure permutation possible.
This is great: Matrix Reloaded re-enactments in Japan
Hue and cry
on ‘whiteness studies’ classes:
Naomi Cairns was among the leaders in the privilege walk, and she wasn.t happy about it. The exercise, which recently involved Cairns and her classmates in a course at the University of Massachusetts, had two simple rules: When the moderator read a statement that applied to you, you stepped forward; if it didn.t, you stepped back. After the moderator asked if you were certain you could get a bank loan whenever you wanted, Cairns thought, “Oh my God, here we go again,” and took yet another step forward.
Hmm, it sucks when you’re procrastinating and then you get in your head to try to find the one song that describes exactly how you’re feeling right now, and it’s just taking forever and you just can’t find it.
The Treo 600 has been unveiled. Looks sort of pricey, but otherwise very good (lack of built-in bluetooth, low-res screen, and no AMPS fallback are the only black marks).
The Orin Hatch thing has been making the rounds recently. Err, yeah. What can I say? Hoo-ray for corporate vigilantism. Can’t wait until they talk about letting companies send out enforcers to break your knee-caps the next time you download anything. Sci-fi dystopia, here we come!
(are we there yet? are we there yet? — yes kids, we are.)
Of course, the obligatory TJ:
It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
Clothing retailer [Abercrombie & Fitch] accused of discriminating against minorities:
Anthony Ocampo, a Filipino-American who recently graduated from Stanford University, said he applied for a job at a store in Glendale, Calif. where he’d previously worked. After speaking with a manager, a sales person told him, “We’re sorry, but we can’t rehire you because there’s already too many Filipinos working here,” said Ocampo, 21.