I'll start this week with the culture reviews. The general opinion is Alice was too Disney or too Burton. (there was a time when either remark would of been a good thing) Next is Jack Kirby's family, audiophile musings, and an unexpected book review.
- Lucius Shepard on Alice
- Kirby / Disney
- JA LovesYou
- Obama, Lehman and The Dragon Tattoo
Here's a short story by Gareth L Powell.
Here's a good old-fashioned screed regarding our current banking mess.
The last set of links is about Google on the surface, but the deeper question is should a corporation be allowed to dictate govornment policy. You may think that America has answered that in the negative, but click through the last link and you might suspect some players can simply write a wish list and send it in for a signature. ACTA's first paragraph seems straightfoward enough, but further in (the fine print) we get to the "without recourse of the courts" and evidentiary rules that in essence don't require evidence. (our say-so is sufficient)
- One World
- Reuters
- Google is not a virgin when it comes to values. Its cooperation and collusion with the U.S. intelligence and security agencies is well-known," a front page commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily said.
- Click-through for ACTA text.
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