ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. - January 1st, 2008
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02:06 pm
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A music question repost from FOUR YEARS AGO!
Four years ago, I posted this question: Making a music CD.
Assume, hypothetically, that I wanted to make *the* definitive "late 20th century restrospective music" CD. All tracks on it must be largely or completely about historical events and trends caused by them, with emphasis on western pop culture.
"American Pie" and "We Didn't Start The Fire" are easy shoo-ins and good examples of what I'm thinking. Neil Young's "Ohio" is quite possible, although a little too focused around specific events. Midnight Oil's "Truganini" is similar, and also very heavily regionalistic. That wouldn't be bad, except that their region is not my region, which makes it less cool.
Those are the rules. Suggest away! So, now that I'm a good 400 Friends to the positive since then, with about 1000 people clicking any given link I post, what do y'all have to say about it now?
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08:56 pm
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![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aaronace brings us art goodness!
"Arbeyach, Prince Of Swarms, created for Kobold Quarterly.
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09:00 pm
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And now I steal from Making Light: Facecrime
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part 1, Chapter 5:He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control. It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. USA, now:TSA officials will not reveal specific behaviors identified by the program — called SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) — that are considered indicators of possible terrorist intent.
But a central task is to recognize microfacial expressions — a flash of feelings that in a fraction of a second reflects emotions such as fear, anger, surprise or contempt, said Carl Maccario, who helped start the program for TSA.
“In the SPOT program, we have a conversation with (passengers) and we ask them about their trip,” said Maccario from his office in Boston. “When someone lies or tries to be deceptive, … there are behavior cues that show it. … A brief flash of fear.” So, they're going to arrest people and throw them in the gulag based on their momentary reaction of apprehension or fear when confronted by armed men who will use your responses to their questions as justification to arrest you and throw you in the gulag?
From here.
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09:02 pm
[Link] | No, you fundie dumbass, you are not being "discriminated against" when people ask you to please stop reading the Bible loudly at them on a city bus.
Edit: I'd said "private location" because I figured the buses in Texas counted as such, being privately owned. It's since been pointed out that a movie theatre is *also* a public location, and that buses in this case are subsidised by the government with the concomitant restriction against, well, restrictions.
She's still noisy, annoying, breaking the rules, and refusing to shut the fuck up when asked politely. She's just not that EXTRA level of wrong.
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