Day: April 21, 2006

So, how would you rate this website? Soon enough, I may have to: Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law:

Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.

A mandatory rating system will “prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at an event in Alexandria, Va.

Three things:

  • I suspect that the majority of stumbling across pornographic images online is anything but inadvertent.
  • You know what I do when I come across something on the Internet I don’t like? I go somewhere else.
  • The definition of sexually explicit covers close-ups of fully clothed genital regions?

Because you know you love it, the Friday Random Guess 10:

  1. I know you have a little life in you yet
    “This Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush, guessed by Eric
  2. I love you and I’m dreaming of you
  3. The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes
    “Richard Cory” by Simon and Garfunkel, guessed by Rob
  4. I can be the one who makes you happy
  5. To try when your arms are too weary
    “The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha)” by Richard Kiley, guessed by Kim
  6. My father said, “Come on home”
    “Chain of Fools” by Aretha Franklin, guessed by Kim
  7. I see them bloom for me and you
    “What a Wonderful World” by Willie Nelson (or others), guessed by Kim
  8. She slipped me a number, I put it in my pocket
    “Highway 29” by Bruce Springsteen, guessed by Eric
  9. You don’t answer my call with even a nod or a twitch
    “Smash the Mirror” by the Who, guessed by Kim
  10. Ain’t ya got no gingerbread?

The last lyrics remaining from last week are #4 (“Blinded by Rainbows” by the Rolling Stones), #6 (“Bleeders” by the Wallflowers), and #10 (“Winterwood” by Don McLean). As always, best of luck!

From Roger Ebert’s review of Silent Hill:

Perhaps those who have played the game will understand the movie, and enjoy it. Speaking of synapses, another member of that panel discussion at Boulder was Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, and an author whose book Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light makes you think that if anyone could understand “Silent Hill,” he could.

Dr. Shlain made the most interesting comment on the panel. He said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. “At first, when they were figuring out the games,” he said, “the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.”