Interstices & Liminal Spaces

Bill Moyers is retiring from journalism at the end of the year, but he's going out with a swan song -- or a phoenix fire. I think he's hoping for more fire-proof journalists. The article can be found here. ltlj, stakebait, calligrafiti, I think y'all might want to see this.

Hot damn! By a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has blocked the Child Online Protection Act as a muzzle on free speech! They haven't overturned it; they sent it back to the lower court to see if the technology has improved any in the last five years.

From the MSNBC article:

For now, the law, known as the Child Online Protection Act, would sweep with too broad a brush, Kennedy wrote.

"There is a potential for extraordinary harm and a serious chill upon protected speech" if the law took effect, he wrote.

Kennedy said that filtering software "is not a perfect solution to the problem of children gaining access to harmful-to-minors materials."

He said that so far, the government has failed to prove that other technologies would work better.

alysswolf, librarians do *such* good work!!

ETA: The BBC article on this can be found here, and thanks to ajhalluk for the link!

The 'Cult Television Shows' Meme.
If I watched it regularly, it's in bold font.
If I watched it occasionally, it's in italics.
If I never watched it, it's struck through.

25. Freaks and Geeks
24. Absolutely Fabulous
23. Forever Knight
22. H. R. Pufnstuf
21. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
20. Twin Peaks
19. Dark Shadows (the '90s version; I missed the original)
18. Doctor Who
17. The Avengers
16. My So-Called Life
15. Quantum Leap
14. Beauty and the Beast
13. Babylon 5
12. Family Guy
11. Mystery Science Theatre 3000
10. Pee-Wee's Playhouse
9. Xena: Warrior Princess
8. The Twilight Zone
7. The Prisoner
6. The Simpsons
5. Monty Python's Flying Circus
4. Farscape
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. The X-Files
1. Star Trek (TOS, yes. TNG, frequently. The others? Nope.)

And I find it hilarious that Bartlett's Familiar Quotations includes bits from the parrot sketch and the lumberjack song. (Of course, "Springtime For Hitler" is in there too --parts of it anyway. Actually, the back section is really kind of fun. Off to browse....)