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	2009.11.06 17.12 Anagrammed Movie Titles #38: The Men Who Stare At Goats Mood: amused



	2009.09.20 02.21 I've got a bad feeling about this... If ever I were to start a movie studio (and had untold wads of cash to fight copyright claims...)



	2009.09.19 03.20 Ben Franklin: Founding Father and... Communist? The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law. All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it. Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris 25 December 1783 Mood: amused



	2009.09.17 02.54 The Cat Piano... an excellent thing (well, the flick, not the Cat Piano itself)



	2009.09.17 02.49 I have been neglecting my LJ duties Yes, I've been busy on Facebbok, but that's no reason I should let the good peeps here (especially those who for some bizarre and unknown reason have not Facebook-friended me) ;anguish in the cold. I'm fixin' to make amends.



	2009.09.17 01.35 I'm awake Who's with me?



	2009.07.07 00.35 Why hello thar!



	2009.06.18 01.25 Where did you go, Gillen? Facebook, mostly. Sometimes you just gotta go where the party is. I'm not closing up shop here, but it's about time that I acknowledge that LJ has become my second home. To continue the feeding frenzy, just friend me, baby.



	2009.05.01 04.25 Happy May Day! Mood: awake



	2009.04.25 11.59 So odd, the things my brain will object to Re Smallville: A human-looking alien child grows up on Earth with fantastic powers attributed to effects of the color of sunlight that he's exposed to. These powers can be negated by exposure to radioactive rocks from his home planet, which are potentially lethal to him. Okay. It could happen. A newspaper reporter crashes through a skylight, falling 20' to a concrete floor in stiletto-heeled boots - and not only takes no damage from the fall but manages to kick someone in the head on the way down? Oh, come on now!



	2009.04.15 00.38 We didn't start the flamewar Mood: amused



	2009.03.27 08.11 The 'second-and-a-half' issue of Big Numbers glycon has posted scans of an unreleased draft copy of Issue #3 of Big Numbers by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz. Although planned as a 12-issue storyline, only issues #1 and #2 were ever released before the project was abandoned in 1990. Not all the artwork appears to be Sienkiewicz'. Al Columbia had been slated to take over for him, so the assumption is that the rest is his.



	2009.03.23 10.06 is John Connor haunted by an old Hendrix tune? It just occured to me that you could now combine the Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles storylines to form a single grand epic. ( spoilers within )



	2009.03.22 00.46 the obligatory BSG Finale post My first thought was that it was a great finale, but really it had just seduced me with wish fulfillment and hat tips to the original series. Half an hour later, I was sitting there thinking, "But... no, waitaminute..." ( spoilers within )



	2009.03.19 22.43 What Would the Overfiend Drink? Tentacle Grape soda "You either know what the joke here is, or you're a very lucky person living a happy, healthy life." - Alex Zalben, Nerve.com



	2009.03.15 21.04 Verses vs Verses: The Global Financial Crisis The following debate is to be had only with snippets of song lyrics. Cite artist and title in the subject line of your comment but provide no other context. No entire songs please. A verse or two at most. The G20 convened this past week in Sussex to discuss what is to be done about the global financial crisis. There was a loose consensus that government should do more to pump funds into the banking system and work to increase trade and staunch the loss of jobs. Should they be doing more? Less? Will a more-concerted global strategy along the same lines as what the US has already been doing be effective or not? Discuss. Mood: curious



	2009.03.09 19.14 My Beatified Laundrette? The Vatican, apparently having decided that it just hadn't offended enough people lately, celebrated International Women’s Day this Sunday with a headline article in its newspaper, l’Osservatore Romano, championing the washing machine as the greatest instrument of women's liberation in the 20th century. Titled The Washing Machine and the Liberation of Women - Put in the Detergent, Close the Lid and Relax, the article opines, "What in the 20th century did more to liberate Western women? The debate is heated. Some say the pill, some say abortion rights and some the right to work outside the home. Some, however, dare to go further: the washing machine." In support of her claim, the author dredges up a quote from Betty Friedan, who in 1963 described "the sublime mystique to being able to change the bed sheets twice a week instead of once". The article goes on to outline the development of the mechanical laundry washer from the 1700s to present, ending with the observation that it has been the development of household conveniences more than any other factor in the modern era which has allowed the development of, "the image of the super woman, smiling, made-up and radiant among the appliances of her house." Public reaction to l’Osservatore Romano's "tribute" has been chilly at best. While this is certainly not a new argument, the last time it was seriously advanced was well over 50 years ago.



	2009.03.08 21.33 Marvel vs DC / Wolverine & Rorschach



	2009.03.03 20.46 It's on America's tortured brow that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow YES! The obscenity that was the US version of Life on Mars has been cancelled. Writers are scrambling to work the actual series ending into this season's finale. Mood: jubilant



	2009.03.02 18.25 The proof is in the puddingheads



	2009.03.02 08.05 Which falls faster? The Dow Jones or a stockbroker taking a swan dive from the 28th floor? Reality is at 2 to the power of 6,893.60 against... and falling. Please do not be alarmed by anything you may see or hear around you. You are bound to feel some initial ill effects. We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. Thank you.



	2009.03.02 07.29 All The News That Fits, We Print This just in from my Aunt Carol: Finding it hard to keep up with world events? Is the Google newsfeed just a little too scattered for your tastes? Check out The Newseum, an interactive world map of newspapers. Just mouse-over any world city to see the front page of today's paper. Click and it will open up in legible size and give you options to go to the website or export to PDF. Very, very cool. Also, Tehran's daily newspaper is apparently called the Jam-e-Jam.



	2009.03.01 04.44 humanime - Summer Glau I came across a challenge to create photomanip anime versions of celebrities and started mucking about... ( perfectly safe for work, but cut because Aurienne has issues with Summer )



	2009.02.28 08.43 And you know how hard it is to find a Sita on a Saturday! After months of teasing us with snippets, Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues is now available to watch online for free. [ click here to watch Sita Sings the Blues ]



	2009.02.27 23.32 A = STINKY DOODIE! Washington State is poised to change its official use of the term "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability". Objectivists throughout the state are reportedly chagrined to find that they may soon qualify for government assistance.

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