What have you read recently that the rest of us should take a gander at?
The links don’t have to be to recent posts, just to something you only came across in the last week or so and which you found engrossing/appalling/deeply satisfying.
I was schadenfreudenly delighted with the karma that saw Anthony Ciolli (one of the men responsible for the discussion forum where posters harassed Jill Filipovic and who refused to remove threatening threads or threads which posted cyberstalking details of women law students’ movements) have an offer of employment with a top law firm rescinded because they were dissatisfied with his explanation of his actions with respect to refusing to delete such threads or dissassociate himself from the forum. Free Speech may be a right, but no-one ever said actions don’t have consequences.
Best new word I’ve read on the intertubes this week, tigtog!
Can I get a witness?
Having just read Marcy Wheelers, ‘ Anatomy of deceit’, and with the ball in the US Dems court can I get a witness that the Vichy Dems are being appeasers, collaborators and war criminals by stalling a moment longer?
They should swing* just as the main instigating Trotskycons should if this drags on for another three months of mayhem. ( *After a fair trial of course)
Sites to catch up on are Firedoglake and Emptywheel among others.
Pamphleteer, aka “Little Brother,” is a propaganda robot which distributes subersive literature. Pamphleteer is designed to bypass the social conditioning that inhibits activists’ ability to distribute propaganda by capitalizing on the aesthetics of cuteness. The robot’s form references a tradition of robot aesthetics developed in science fiction and popular media.
The second story on Tuesday’s Late Night Live was interesting.
It was an interview with Dr David Corlett about his monograph titled “Returning Failed Asylum Seekers From Australia” is the result of a three-year research project into Austalia’s return policy and practice.
1. Riverbend and her family have finally decided to get out of Baghdad. Read her last three posts, on that, and also on the case of the rape of Sabrine Al-Janabi.
2. Not a blog, but everyone should read Richard Flanagan’s new article about Gunn’s Ltd and Tasmanian politics in The Monthly. Read it and weep. It also has an amazingly beautiful full-page photo of the “Weld Angel”.
First this excerpt:
That column is interesting for the questions asked by author Patrick Foy and also for the ’snipet’ relating how Cheney is said to have ‘blasted’ Bob Woodward for having revealed the close relationship that he (Cheney) had with Kissinger over the war in Iraq. Kissinger’s man in Iraq is widely known to have been Paul Bremer. Although the ‘Kissinger connection’ had already been covered, for example here, as well as the strange role played by Bremer in the destruction of Iraq, it is the first time that I come upon a document with as many arguments and questions regarding Kissinger’s role in that human tragedy that is the Iraq War.
Now I’ve seen everything.
Been a little slow this week, but a few interesting bits:
Futuristic Birds’ House,
Futuristic everything from a hundred years ago,
And the lovely I can has cheezburger, which is never old.
Last week’s ASW wasn’t bad either.
Schadenfreude – Schools discover students can be arseholes online, offline.
Joy – we’ve mentioned Feist before a few times on this blog, but I discovered this clip this week. Jawdroppingly awesome choreography, lighting, use of location, song, artist. Check out this one while you’re at it – the song’s written by the lovely New Buffalo who’s touring Oz at the moment. She’s playing the Factory in Enmore this Thursday.
That’s not a shopping list. This is a shopping list.
Saw her play last year, dk.au – you should get along if you can – she’s fabulous!
If you are interested in things literary and/or medieval, check out this old post (Laura probably read it the day it was posted) newly brought to my attention by Stephanie at Humanities Researcher: Chaucer’s version of Brokeback Mountain.
This is a very good review essay – “Young and Restless in Tehran” – disrupts all sorts of simplistic assumptions about whether youth culture will lead to democracy in Iran, and indeed what pop culture in Iran signifies:
http://www.azure.org.il/magazine/magazine.asp?id=379
For the wordplay fans, a bit of nonsense over at Creek Running North: Razzle Dazzle.
No Commercial Potential on Dalaipalooza (in Chicago)