This might be the most intense place on Earth. (via agaudi.files.wordpress.com)
Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Conformist (1970, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
“Marcello is really a very complex character, searching to conform because of his great, violent anti-conformism. A true conformist is someone who has no wish to change; to wish to conform is really to say that the truth is the contrary.”
-Bernardo Bertolucci
Possibly the most visually arresting film ever made.
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” —
Roger Ebert (via Esquire)
I know it’s being referenced all over the place right now, but this interview is required reading. I didn’t realize the extent of his medical situation, given that I’ve only ever read his writing and never paid much attention to Siskel & Ebert or Ebert & Roeper, and I’m astonishingly depressed to learn how close he is to the end. I’ve always referenced his opinions when putting serious thought into a film, even in the minority of cases when I’ve disagreed strongly (his dismissal of A Clockwork Orange and insistence on Nicolas Cage’s genius leap to mind), and his career doesn’t need my stamp of approval to legitimize it…but I’d like to throw my two cents in the pile: he’ll be missed terribly, and his body of criticism will outlive us all.
Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Road to Recovery
I love that David Plouffe is taking a more active role in shaping opinion/perception again. Fantastic chart.
Dark Roasted Blend: Lots of Snow!
Goddamnit Netflix, how are you missing I’m a Cyborg, but that’s OK? You have the rest of the Chan-wook Park DVDs, the vengeance trilogy on up to Thirst. Amazon is no help either, offering $30 imports through third-party sellers (likely actual pirates, in other words people who are profiting off his work)…guess I’m forced into the torrent network. Thank jeebus for Hexagon.cc.
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login -
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser.
I will now say two things that will shock most people who know me:
- You should follow this link to ReadWriteWeb.
- You should read the comments.
You can see the same effect on anything ranked highly by a Google search for “facebook login”, including this.
That comment thread is one of the more amazing things I’ve seen, and should be required reading for every web designer/developer out there. Yikes.
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To me, this isn’t even a close question—but I’ll let a few people answer before I tip my hand.
(I’ll also let people do photo replies because I like to check boxes. And why not? Of course, if people respond with their feelings in picture form, it could get sort of surreal.)
To expand on my Tumblr answer to this question, I think that the debate as framed is missing the larger point - corporations should not have the same legal rights (or Constitutional protection) as individuals. The Constitution, and our entire legal system, is simply a social contract between individuals. A corporation is an artificial entity created within that legal system to confer rights upon a business organization (profit or nonprofit), and the real crime here is that the same Congressional representatives, lawyers, and interests that will trample all over the rights of the individual will rush to defend this fictional ‘corporate bill of rights’.
Corporations should have no First Amendment protection because the Bill of Rights was designed to protect individual rights. Case closed, no constitutional amendment required.
Further reading: Jim Sleeper in the Boston Globe.
