I went to see it last weekend, and was fairly impressed. There were things that didn’t quite seem right, but I thought they pretty much nailed the feel it should have had. Unfortunately, they ended it early, saving the end to launch the next movie, assuming it gets greenlighted. I hope it does: this movie really doesn’t work as a standalone.

Ted Kennedy, in a speech on the Senate floor today, pointed out an interesting inconsistency.

The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retro-active immunity. No immunity, no FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he’s willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies.

Methinks Flickr needs to update their geotagging imagery.

Two days ago, Anita Rowland died. She’d been battling cancer for quite some time, but her family thought she had 6 months to go, until last week, when it went down to a month — and then a few days over the weekend. She passed away on Monday, as her husband held her hand. He has a memorial thread over on his LJ.

She was one of the first Seattle bloggers I started following, and the organizer of the monthly blogger Meetups in Seattle and on the Eastside. I swiped many a link from her for this blog. :-) I first became aware of her, I think, when I heard an interview on KUOW about blogging. (Mine existed at the time, but I wasn’t doing much with it.) If I remember correctly, I listened to it while delivering pizzas in Woodinville.

She and Jack cared for her grandson, R—-. Ael and Erin met him once at a Meetup at Crossroads, and instantly hit it off.

Want to help improve Google Image searching? Go tag pictures. You’re matched up with someone else, and if you agree on a tag, it’s placed on the image, and you get points. Points for the day and all-time points are tracked if you have a Google Account.

In the session I just went through, I was paired both with people who were fairly creative in describing what they saw, and those who had no clue whatsoever. The points I least liked losing were the ones for a screencap of a first-person shooter game: the other user got “first-person”, but had a different noun.

Mark Pilgrim compares Jeff Bezos’s statements before and after Kindle came out.

First sale doctrine, anyone?

I just made the mistake of doing a Google search that also found me a review LiveJournal full of crossover and alternate universe fanfics. Scary.

• The Waiting Room - Buffy/Sandman
• The Soul of Wit - Buffy/View Askew
• Tower of Air - Potterverse
• Chiaroscuro - Buffy
• France is that way? - Buffy