A Little Later Tuesday Afternoon
* Books and magazines are apparently no longer allowed on flights to and from Canada. Because, you know, freedom.
* If you consider a stash of obscene videos scarier than a stash of firearms then this is the country for you. In America you have a constitutional right to own a gun, and you may traffic in firearms with legal impunity; but you risk being imprisoned for buying and selling arguably obscene pornography. And don’t even think about child porn (I mean that literally): possessing obscene cartoon images of imaginary children is a federal offense; so is communicating your sexual fantasies about children to other adults… Freedom! Via Srinivas.
* Great moments in bad science reporting: This weird article takes an interesting physiological result—that “men’s subjective ratings of arousal were in agreement with their body’s level of sexual arousal about 66 percent of the time, while women’s were in line only about 26 percent of the time”—and packages it inside a completely bizarre, misogynist frame: that women “may not know” when they are aroused. What?
* There’s currently an activist fight over whether or not to allow cameras into the upcoming Proposition 8 trial in California next week. I’m much more interested in the ruling than in my ability to see it happen, sincerely hoping it turns out that Prop 8 was never legal in the first place.
* h+ interviews Ray Kurzweil.
* And behold, Pocahontar. Via Boing Boing.
Haha, I now see why people draw the parallel between pocahontas, and avitar. Where did you get that? Did you make this?
Esko
March 22, 2011 at 5:47 pm
I found it on Boing Boing; don’t remember who made it…
gerrycanavan
March 22, 2011 at 5:49 pm
wicked =)
Esko
March 23, 2011 at 4:04 am