Bush signed into law the “Family Entertainment and Copyright Act” yesterday. Aside from the implications it has on the various internets, it also “includes sections authorizing the use of technologies that can delete offensive content from a film.” This seems like it would violate the 1st Amendment, hard.

I’m very disturbed about that. Who is in charge of deciding what is and is not offensive? I think they would answer that they should be and that they have the “best interests” of the country in mind. But let’s have a look at something, shall we?

I said in the title that censorship is for Fascists. A couple of the qualities of what defines a Fascist government are that it is marked by stringent socioeconomic controls and suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship. To me, this sounds exactly like what the government is doing here…

It astounds me that people voted for this lunatic and can stand by something that is so blatantly anti free speech. Leave the supposedly “offensive content” alone. If you have personal issues with it and can’t handle something, don’t freakin’ watch it.

I want someone to invent some way to be able to let you download stuff from your brain, like pictures and video and stuff. Digital cameras would become obsolete. Obviously, they’d have an implant of some kind to allow infinite optical zooming with your eyes to view stuff far away. Then you’d be able to take a picture or video of whatever you were looking at with your eyes and just download it from your brain later. You wouldn’t ever have to be like, “Man, I wish I had a camera right now…” because you would already have one there…in your brain! With basically infinite storage, your brain is the perfect place to keep stuff you wanna see later.

This will totally be the next big revolution in photography. BrainCam!

Did you ever happen to notice that Food Lion is like the retarded red-headed step-child’s armpit of the grocery industry. What’s up with that? I realize that pricing is part of the issue…they’re cheaper than most of the other stores, but why do they have to be so dreadful to go into? It’s almost like Walmart. The first word that comes to mind when someone says Walmart or Food Lion is “hell-hole.” You’d think they would want to change their image a little. Food Lion also has that weird yellow glow to the inside of the store that I can’t seem to figure out. It’s like you’re walking around at the fair. They’re always in the crappiest shopping centers too. Harris Teeter will be next to Starbucks while Food Lion will get the Dollar Tree.

The segregation of grocery stores is interesting too. Harris Teeter has mostly white shoppers I’ve noticed, while Food Lion has a largely black shopper population. It’s pretty ironic that after all our country went through to end segregation that society naturally segregates itself.

If you’d like to let Food Lion know you think they should “nicen up” the place, feel free to call them at 1-800-210-9569.

This is awesome. This guy took the N.W.A.’s album “Straight Outta Compton” and edited it down to contain only the explicit content. It’s pretty hilarious to listen to once. However, the novelty quickly wears off after that.

A really good article/interview about Singularity, written by Cory Doctorow…if you like Cory’s stuff or Ray Kurzweil’s stuff then you’ll probably like this.

I realize I’m just relinking Boing Boing here, but I don’t know how many of you actually read them…so there it is.

I hate how every publication has to be politically correct just to try and be innocuous so they don’t offend anyone. There’s no other reason for it either. It’s not that they’re trying to accurately represent the population of the group they’re discussing. No, that might offend someone.

There’s always pictures of their “representative sample” of their group too. It’s always a picutre of a white guy, an asian guy, a white girl, and a black girl. Or sometimes it’s an asian chick and a black guy…but you can always count on a white guy and girl. They try and represent everyone, but some group is inevitably left out. What if you were the Indian guy reading the brochure for this college or whatever you were thinking about attending and didn’t see any Indian people in the pictures. *Begin Indian Accent* You’d be like, “These jerks do not even care about Indians…eff them I say!” *End Indian Accent*

My suggestion is that they just leave off the pictures or don’t try to be politically correct at all because you’ll always offend someone. Either that or get some of the Neutrals to be in the pictures.

Neutral Official: Your Neutralness, it’s a beige alert.
Neutral Leader: If I don’t survive, tell my wife “Hello.”

I was reading an article on Darth Vader today on MSNBC, and the author mentions that back when he was a kid “At baseball games, Darth Vader’s theme greeted burly hometown sluggers as they advanced to the plate.”

That reminded me of back in high school when they introduced these retarded “Gold Cards” for the “smart kids.” If your GPA for the semester was high enough you’d get a “gold card” that would let you do things like: get out of school 5 minutes early, exempt one final exam, etc. The whole 5 minute early thing was funny because people who couldn’t leave 5 minutes early would resent you for it…but it’s only 5 minutes, not 30 or something.

But I digress. So they had this ceremony, I use this word loosely, for us to get our gold cards. It was supposed to be this honor and stuff, and they decided to have us process into the auditorium. As we’re walking towards the door I hear the Imperial March playing for us as we’re entering…that’s the “Darth Vader theme” that’s probably going through your head right now. I still, to this day, can’t figure out why the hell they were playing that music as we walked in. It doesn’t make any sense. We weren’t evil rulers of an empire or crappy actors turned into half-machines because we fell in some lava. If they had to play a Star Wars related piece, they should have played the “Throne Room” piece at the end of A New Hope where they’re receiving their award…that at least makes sense.

High school was stupid.

We saw Muse last night and it was AMAZING! They were awesome live. It’s only three guys, but if you weren’t looking, you’d swear it sounded like 35 people. All their big songs are epic and totally rock your face off.

Apparently, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has been getting bad reviews…I’m still hoping it’ll deliver. I guess we’ll see.

Today I wore a grey shirt and jeans.

Someone else had on an orange shirt.

They had shoes on too.

It was neat.

No robots wear pants.

On the way to Raleigh from Holly Springs tonight this car right in front of me started hydroplaning. Their car spun all the way around clockwise twice, then hit the guard rail and bounced back all the way around again counterclockwise. It was crazy cause me and the car beside me had to slam on our brakes to keep from hitting them and then swerve out of the way to not hit each other…very scary to watch.

Jason, Andy, and I went to see Jurassic Park on the big screen. The Eastern Federal is doing a “Retro Movie” every week. It was awesome to see it on the big screen again, since the last time it was on one was about 12 years ago.

But that’s not…what I’m gonna do.

Google Maps just added satellite photos to their maps program. It’s hot too. You can drag the satellite maps just as fast as you can drag the regular maps around. I predict that by next week they’ll have the photos updated daily, and by the week after next it’ll be live video so you can just watch what’s going on everywhere in real time.

“Ok…I see your car. Turn left there. Now keep going through this stop light. Now turn right. Ok, my house is the third one on your left. Right there, stop! I’m gonna go open the door for you now. Talk to you later.”

Now that will be awesome.

But now, for no reason, we challenge you to defend your honor on the basketball court.