Chuck Palahniuk & Clark Gregg talk about the screen adaptation of the film.

You can see the full “PG” trailer here

Cool video, but explains why I won’t buy one.

See it on Google Maps here.

You can read the story of how these came to be here.

So here’s an idea for a business:
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- You have your mail all forwarded to a virtual PO box at a company
- The company scans all your mail into PDFs and shreds the physical items
- Company sends you a daily email with picture and sender/recipient address and name summaries
- Company archives all the contents on it’s website for one year
- You can download and store pdf’s of each and any item, or search via OCR against keyworks or sender or recipient names/addresses
- Revenue model is an ad inserts at the top and bottom of each email, and top and bottom of each pdf.

I even have a name for it: DigiPost, or PostScan, or MailManager or something.

Negative sides:
- Privacy
- Theft
- Identity theft
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Anybody who uses this business idea has to credit me for the concept :-).

According to Mayer, the analyst estimated that a full third of the camp’s detainees were there by mistake. When told of those findings, the top military commander at Guantanamo at the time, Major Gen. Michael Dunlavey, not only agreed with the assessment but suggested that an even higher percentage of detentions — up to half — were in error. Later, an academic study by Seton Hall University Law School concluded that 55 percent of detainees had never engaged in hostile acts against the United States, and only 8 percent had any association with al-Qaeda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102954.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Finally, the functionality I’ve been looking for, for years.

And it’s fucking brilliant.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

I really hope they can maintain the quality and feel of the graphic novel(s).

From the Washington Monthly website comes this strange story of four Baltimore murder defendants who attempted to use a racist/seperatist doctrine claiming the invalidity of the 14th Amendment as their exemption from the federal justice system.

Too Weird for the Wire

Whee, big Fail Whale for me.

On Friday, I went to two AT&T stores - both had sold out hours ago. On Saturday I went to a third one, which hadn’t had any new phones since the day before. Saturday evening I went to the mall and saw the apple store had a line - but was hungry, didn’t want to wait, and was concerned that since they were sold out of the 16g black phone, they’d run out of the 16g white by the time I got my turn to buy one. Went back Sunday at 1:30 - they’d closed the waiting line.

When I asked the employee standing at the front of the apple store answering questions (I felt sorry for her, a bunch of people were being really rude about not being able to just walk in and get a phone that day) whether the line was closed due to stock or activation issues she said “Apple wants to make sure that everybody who’s standing in line gets the phone they want, so the decision was made to close the line.” To me that means activation issues.

So, that’s five attempts for me and no success - I’ll probably try again later this week.