I've heard
"AVC" doesn't mean "AVC main profile". Insert sad face. CABAC and B-frames are awesome.
Cory Doctorow griping about Canadian ISPs
...with some justification, it appears. A glimpse of our comcast-y future?
Comcast's platform blocks access to content not bought through their storefront.
Oh, wait.
DisunionOne-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America's most perilous period -- using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.
MB sends this picture from Syria:
"Raw lamb pulverized to the consistency of silly putty, served with a kind of mayo, copped onion pepper walnuts, oregeno cumin clove and cayenne, yummy but challenging"
dallas and
charlie's angels and
wonder woman all set for tv makeovers. im holding out for a falcon crest remake or, at worst, small wonder.
Egypt cuts itself (almost completely) off from the internet. Shuts down
text messaging.
Muslim Brotherhood set to join Friday protests. ElBaradei is back in the country from Vienna and says he will lead if called upon to do so.
Obama is doing a Q&A this afternoon sponsored by Google where the questions are all youtube videos submitted and voted on by anyone. As with a similar change.org Q&A that took place in 2009, the top question is about drug legalization. Obama sort of brushed that one off before, saying, "I don't know what this says about the online audience..." However, this time around, all
20 of the top 20 questions are about drugs. D'oh. I'm guessing this will be the last non big media mediated Q&A any President will ever do.
Q&A at 2:30 EST on youtube
archer: season two starts tonight on fx.
im afraid to look. did it snow?