Just another Thursday. Nothing to see here, move along.
Seriously, beyond a really good episode of Community and a seriously WTF episode of Happy Town, this hasn’t been a very exciting day.
At least tomorrow’s Friday.
Day: May 6, 2010
Thursday various
- I’ve been having a lot of fun using my iPad this past week, but it’s never occurred to me to embed it in a kitchen cabinet. This is simultaneously a ridiculous and very cool use of the device.
- Also at the crossroads of the ridiculous and very cool (with a little bit of creepy thrown in): Dinseyland’s new Living Character technology. There is a little “Uncanny Valley” action going on here, but none of the children in the audience seem too perturbed. [via]
- I was glad to hear that author Peter Watts will not be serving jail time for an incident that happened at the US/Canadian border back in December. But I’m still ashamed that this is the way we (sometimes) treat our visitors in this country. [via]
- Of course, we are the nation that gave the world Justin Bieber, who doesn’t even know what the word ‘German’ means.
- Then again, we did give the world Ricky Jay via]:
That’s one way of putting it
John Scalzi on Arizona’s new immigration law:
Backers of Arizona’s immigration law have been lately bleating about how they had no choice but to pass it because Washington’s not been doing anything about illegal immigration, but, you know what, you don’t protest your landlord not fixing a broken door by burning down the apartment building.