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Clay Shirky breaks down Secretary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom Thursday to it’s basic principals and commitments. Lawrence Lessig reacts to the SCOTUS’s recent Citizens United case. And David Rees gives us 5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain Democratic Members Of Congress To Abandon Health Care Reform In Light Of Scott Brown’s Electoral [...]

I won’t bore you to tears with my lame tales of woe about being busy. I’ll just shoot these links at you without further comment… Burlington the 2nd gayest city according to The Advocate? The Queen City, indeed! Worldwide day of prayer to heal Trig Palin: “Science has no way to undo this condition, which [...]

Time to weed out some links… Hoy crap! Giant sand spider discovered in the middle east! (Yes, please let me clear this tab so I don’t have to keep looking at this awful thing!) In a cut scene from Avatar (that will be restored in the DVD) we see that the Na’vi have sex with [...]

Clearing out some tabs for the new year… This is old and you’ve probably all seen it already, but these Star Wars Facebook updates are pretty funny. The best comics and graphic novels of 2009. My 15-minute “Future 15″ SXSW presentation is officially listed at sxsw.com. I’m right next to Amanda Congdon under “Video Blogging [...]

Linkety kerplinety plunk… Washington Monthly says the UK’s 4.3 million CCTV surveillance cameras are proving Orwell wrong about life in the surveillance society. A 10″ Mac notebook for $300? Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. This hand-cranked, penny-dispensing sculpture lets anyone work for minimum wage. Golly, Associated Press, I don’t know. Is Obama too [...]

Make a wish! I’ll have more A/V upgrade tales tomorrow (when the new set arrives) but here are some links to get you over hump day… I so totally want to see Dead Set — a British series about the Big Brother TV show… with ZOMBIES. Eric Wareheim is a national treasure. (Spine points out [...]

None of these things would really generate a good post on their own (well, maybe they would if I wasn’t so lazy…), so here’s a little link dump to start your weekend off right: Joss Whedon wants the Terminator franchise This is a brilliant idea for a Halloween costume If someone doesn’t make these for [...]

…November. The film festival was a success and now it’s over! With a little luck things will quiet down this month and I can get some things accomplished, like posting on Candleblog again! Here are some links to start things off… Asylum.com links to what it calls the 8 most bizarre and ridiculous public access [...]

… but barely. Here are some links I need to clear away from FF… First up, my new Spacetime Report is up at The Contrarian. And I’m blogging at the VIFF blog this week. Can sci-fi movies still be cool? First 8 minutes of V are online. The Kings of Convenience play at Spin (I [...]

Hi there, Internet! First off, I just filed a new Spacetime Report over at The Contrarian. Check it out. Also, I’ll be blogging over at the VIFF blog a bit for the next couple of weeks. The film festival starts Friday and runs for ten days, so I’ll be pretty swamped between my job, teaching [...]