- Harry Potter and the…AHAHAHAHA none for you! | Tiger Beatdown • by s.e. smith
- 3D movies are fundamentally inaccessible to a section of the population. A section of the population that is a lot larger than I thought it was…
- …also problems with captions, with mobility-related disabilities that theatres don’t accommodate, for people who need to stand or jiggle or have the lights on or yes talk during the movie. Which is why some movie theatres actually have disability-friendly screenings with adjustments to accommodate, say, autistic children who really don’t want to see a VERY LOUD MOVIE in the dark and would prefer a more mellow, toned-down environment. Movie theatre accessibility in general is a big problem…
- It’s hard to explain how upsetting inaccessibility is to people who haven’t experienced it.
- Record Shows Tea Party Is Really Just Republicans | RH Reality Check
- Rachel Maddow discusses the lack of congruency between the libertarian philosophy of Tea Party politics and the anti-abortion, pro-war philosophies of the Republicans calling themselves Tea Party politicians.
- Judge Blocks NYC’s Abortion-Disclosure Law – Metropolis – WSJ
- A federal judge blocked a controversial New York City law requiring emergency-pregnancy centers to disclose that they don’t offer abortion services.
- [Yes, making it harder for bullies to commit fraud is a serious imposition on their First Amendment rights. Your right to know whether you're receiving care from an impartial medical provider or a political activist with projection issues? Obvy, you don't have any. -L]
- Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of Woman | About.com Women’s History
- From 1789 until 1944, French citizenship was limited to males — even though women were active in the French Revolution, and many assumed that citizenship was theirs by right of their active participation in that historic liberation battle. In 1789, in the French Revolution, French citizenship was defined in the document, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Olympe de Gouges protested….
- Zuckers! Facebook Has Secretly Been Giving User Info to Cops | GOOD • by Cord Jefferson
- …federal judges have granted at least 24 search warrants since 2008 allowing law enforcement officials to snoop around people’s Facebook accounts. …access to friend requests, photos, event calendars and personal messages. And because of Facebook’s inherent interconnectedness, it’s presumed that police got to see not only their targets’ information, but that of their friend groups, too. …Facebook hasn’t been letting users know when cops are tossing their online lives. ..
- Nathan Kuemmerle, a psychiatrist, was being accused of dealing prescription drugs when a police officer submitted comments he’d made on “Mafia Wars” as a reason he should be denied bail.
- Will Further Revelations from the Murdoch Scandal Lead to Justice Dept. Investigations? | Media | AlterNet
- …the calls [for investigation] haven’t been exclusively partisan. On Wednesday, Republican Rep. Peter King said the allegations of News Corp phone hacking were “disgraceful” and warranted an FBI investigation. Rep. Mary Bono Mack intends to discuss the scandal at a House hearing today on Internet privacy, a staffer said in an interview on Wednesday.
- Already a range of groups including Free Press, Public Campaign, ThinkProgress, CREDO Action and Media Matters for America has collected signatures from 100,000 Americans demanding an investigation. ColorofChange.org is organizing a sizable protest to occur outside Murdoch’s Manhattan townhouse on Thursday.
- It’s clear from reports in the media that more allegations are going to surface, and that they’ll not be limited to crimes committed in the United Kingdom.
- Harry Potter Week: The Methods of Rationality: An Alternate Harry Potter | GeekMom • by Ruth Suehle
- Please don’t run away, because at some point here, I’m going to have to say an f-word that I don’t like. I never thought I’d use it. But I’ve done it. I’ve now read 72 chapters of fanfic: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.Sorry fanfic lovers – I’m just not into that particular area of fandom. This spectacularly wonderful ongoing story by Eliezer Yudkowsky, however, is worth your time. It reimagines Harry Potter’s life at Hogwarts if he had been raised not by the obnoxious Dursleys, but by a warm and loving Oxford professor who taught him the ways of rational thinking and filled his world with both science and science fiction. …
Animagi violate the rule of Conservation of Energy. Wizarding economics are a mess. The magical world seems to be becoming less magical – is it a genetic problem?
- Moving photos from Facebook to Google | nicomachus.net
- Given the significant privacy enhancements over Facebook, I’ve decided that it is worth my time. Despite beta bugs, Google is already the more mature social networking platform… you can move your photos yourself.You’ll need a Facebook account, a Google account, and Picasa to do this.
- Happiness | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy • by Dan Haybron
- There are roughly two philosophical literatures on “happiness,” each corresponding to a different sense of the term. One uses ‘happiness’ as a value term, roughly synonymous with well-being or flourishing. The other body of work uses the word as a purely descriptive psychological term, akin to ‘depression’ or ‘tranquility’. …the psychological notion is undergoing a revival as a major focus of philosophical inquiry, following on recent developments in the science of happiness. This entry focuses on the psychological sense of happiness …
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