Just some links

  • Why are we still pretending Tasers are safe and law officers should have them? [via]
  • See, if they’d just throw him in jail over his involvement in the Valerie Plame leak, none of this would have happened: Robert Novak cited after hitting pedestrian. My question is: just how fast or badly do you have to be driving to not know you hit someone? [via]
  • The New Yorker wonders if poetry can be a war crime. If it can, it’s high time Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, was brought to justice, that’s all I’m saying. [via]
  • Baby’s First Internet [via]
  • Glen calls the new G4 show Hurl a program “for people who found ‘Fear Factor’ much too nuanced and intellectually complex” — just because the object of the game is to speed-eat, compete in intense physical activity, and be the last to throw up. My first thought was to wonder if this maybe signaled a final decline of the American empire, and if vomitoriums couldn’t be too far behind. But then I was disillusioned to learn from Wikipedia that “A commonly held, but false, belief is that Ancient Romans designated spaces called vomitoria for the purpose of actual vomiting, as part of a binge and purge cycle.” If you can’t believe in ancient Roman vomit, what can you believe in?
  • In general, I think the new Star Trek reboot is a bad idea — at best an underwhelmingly unoriginal idea. I’m increasingly less enchanted with J.J. Abrams with each new project, but more to the point, remakes are a tricky proposition, and I don’t see a reason to remake this. As a franchise, Trek would do a lot better to look forward. (Or at least a Deep Space Nine movie.) All that said, even if I thought the movie was a good idea, this isn’t the poster to sell anybody else on the idea.
  • I keep forgetting to mention how much I like this wall mural Ken Jennings painted for his daughter’s bedroom.
  • Things are just getting worse and worse for the American Life on Mars. Even Colm Meany’s gone? (Well, that means he’s free for that DS9 movie…) Seriously, can I just skip it and watch the terrific original again instead?
  • Tin Man was nominated for nine Emmy Awards? But Tin Man…well, sucked.
  • It’s horrible, but I think what struck me most in this sad story of US Marine Sergeant Tyler Ziegel and now ex-wife Renee was this line:

    Part of his skull is implanted in the fatty tissue in his torso, to keep it viable and moist for future use…

    Like I said, it’s horrible, but ewww. [via]

  • Flickr user hit by lightning while recording a rainstorm [via]
  • I don’t know what you did with your economic stimulus check. Me, I just deposited mine. Lots of Americans, apparently, used the money to buy porn. [via]

5 thoughts on “Just some links”

  1. In regards to Star Trek – writers Orci and Kurtzman are notoriously hated in the Hercules fandom for being idiots and screwing up the series. They have also very proudly declared that they’ve never seen previous Trek movies and have absolutely zero intention of following any sort of writer’s bible. So I think it’s safe to guess that anyone looking for cannon consistency or series continuity or good characterization is going to be sadly disappointed.

  2. I swear, when (if) I see this Star Trek movie, the first time that Spock pulls Kirk aside with some sort of “Captain can I speak to you for a moment,” I’m just going to start screaming, “NO! Don’t do it! He’ll eat your brain!”

  3. I am shocked and saddened to learn that the Romans did not actually have vomitoria.

    Wait. Does this mean we’ve actually *outstripped* the Romans at decadence now?

  4. I used my economic stimulus check to pay down my credit card debt, most of which I accumulated overseas. Somehow, I doubt that’s quite what Bush was hoping for, either. At least the porn is stimulating.

    (Sorry. :))

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