Easily Distracted

Sep 03 2009 ∞

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Lena Headey Joins <em>Game of Thrones</em>. Very Interesting...

The Game of Thrones casting started with period-piece powerhouses (Sean Bean, Jennifer Ehle) and strong character actors who elevate their material (Mark Addy, Peter Dinklage), but the last few reveals have gone from uncannily perfect to television standard (we’re pulling ingénues from The Tudors? For real?), and I’m beginning to worry.

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“ its release unexpectedly marked the death of some part of me, and in monitoring the shift in my heart of Star Trek from a living, vital pleasure to a glass-encased museum piece, I got a bit lost in myself. It led to a summer’s worth of soul-searching about certain things…
— Graphic Engine  » Blog Archive  » Where I’ve Been
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“ Invasion of Poland began this morning. Warsaw bombed. General mobilization proclaimed in England, ditto in France plus martial law.
— 1.9.39. « THE ORWELL PRIZE
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Aug 31 2009 ∞
“ the guy at the garage doesn’t believe what I say, or doesn’t take seriously what I say about the car because I’m a woman, what does it matter? It’s entirely inconsequential. But even an insult like that that’s fairly inconsequential because it’s an insult to me as a knower, in my capacity as a knower, it goes deep, and that’s because our capacity for knowledge and for passing on our knowledge is so tightly knitted up with our very status as a rational being. So when I’m insulted in my capacity as a knower, I’m seen as lesser as a rational being. And that’s a way of being lesser as a human being.
— Philosophers Zone - 22 August 2009 - Power, prejudice and the murder of Stephen Lawrence
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“ Politics becomes more and more a contest between competing individual freedoms and rights. My relation to society is defined no longer in terms of our mutual responsibilities and obligations, but in terms of what society owes me as a private individual.
— Faith and Theology: On Calvin, Hobbes, and rights
Aug 27 2009 ∞
Strap on the long hair wig controller, load in the game software and rock out with your hair. (via Headbang Hero - Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog)

Strap on the long hair wig controller, load in the game software and rock out with your hair. (via Headbang Hero - Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog)

Aug 26 2009 ∞
“ Fans searching online for Biel have a one-in-five chance of hitting a Web site with malware, according to McAfee’s third annual report listing Hollywood’s most “dangerous” online celebrities.
— Jessica Biel most ‘dangerous’ celeb in cyberspace | Security - CNET News
Aug 25 2009 ∞
“ American attitudes to crime and punishment are unspeakable; disturbing, mediaeval, and barbaric are some of the adjectives that spring to mind. But above all, the word that most thoroughly applies is merciless. The commission of a crime is taken as an excuse to unleash the demons of the subconscious, however dark, however disproportionate, upon the perpetrator. Once labeled a criminal, an individual’s right to fair treatment is utterly expunged, and any violation or degradation, however grotesque, is seen as something that they brought on themselves.
— Charlie’s Diary: Merciless
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Charlie's Diary: Merciless

Another wonderfully composed rant from a favourite author

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