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You linky the sauce? Watch this awesome Röyksopp video. Space Invaders! Is the Watchmen screenwriter actually comparing the experience watching the film to the experience of being raped??? And to him this is a good thing??? Danah Boyd continues to be really smart about social media. Bad news for relativists: objective reality appears to exist. [...]

Flippity floo, a (nother) linkdump for you… This just in: digital video democratizes documentaries! Next they’ll tell me I can distribute these “digital videos” online! An appeals court has refused to force anonymous critics who made unflattering remarks about a doughnut shop in an online forum to reveal themselves. Steve Benen (who just finished Watchmen [...]

Wired looks at the secret lives of comic book store employees (This was me in the 1990s). Here’s a disdainful view of writing for the Internet (as opposed to other media). I suppose I’d take this essay more seriously if it wasn’t presented in unreadable white text on a black background. As the Mythbusters say, [...]

Here are your unlucky links for the weekend. I hope Dollhouse doesn’t suck, and I hope any potential Dollhouse suckitude doesn’t bring down the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which returns tonight. Here’s a post mortem on last night’s tweet up at the VT Pub & Brewery. Former CNN science/tech reporter Miles O’Brien blogs about Continental 3407. [...]

Linkity dinkity do… Yep, that’s my senator! Bale Out – the best of Christian Bale remixes I’ve seen so far What the hell is wrong with Joaquin Phoenix? Beware the green comet! A burglar alarm that twitters about intruders. This is why you’re fat. I’ve apparently been missing out. Those polygons are filthy and corrupting [...]

My Gods I have a lot of tabs open. Okay, here’s what I’m looking at… Danah Boyd does the math on the much-touted 90,000 MySpace sex offenders and shows that MySpace is actually far safer for kids than real life, as far as sex predators go. The whole idea of New Media Office Hours is [...]

Here are a couple of seemingly unrelated news items from the past week… Clinically Depressed Poodle Mauls Former French President Chirac Raccoon bites off rapist’s penis What’s going on???

I really do have thoughtful thoughts to share, but these links keep pouring in! I haven’t even been looking for them! It’s probably Obama’s doing. Find out all sorts of (not all that accurate) information about me! Wicked-cool Photosynth of the inauguration (hit the space bar to play the show or juct click around) More [...]

Lots of folks have been making some great recommendations to the Obama transition team via their transition website, change.gov. Lawrence Lessig and a cabal of Internet Big Thinkers suggested some Principals for an Open Transition, public.resource.org has Five Suggestions for Change, and loads of people have been leaving comments and applying for jobs and in [...]

A link in time saves nine… Sometimes XKCD is a little too dead on. Here’s another example. Funny animal video #1: Jerry Lewis goat. Funny animal video #2: ninja cat! Ding It’s up! – what an obvious and useful thing. Security guru Bruce Schneier on the Mumbai attacks Bush reminds us he’s still “in president.” [...]