around the traps
- The Kate O'Cailin of LiveJournal | Why is rape funny when it happens to men? (via drjon) Discusses The Wedding Crashers and asks why it's not only ok for men to be raped, but it's suitable fodder for comedy. In most of these cases, there's a very simple way to figure out if the sexual politics are acceptable: reverse the gender roles. You'd be amazed how often you realise there'd be a total uproar if you switched men and women around - advertising is a prime example. There are countless ads on TV where the premise is that men are stupid and deserve to be humiliated; yet it's seen as very weird if anyone complains.
- Boing Boing: Katrina: "American media finally grew a spine". No doubt they'll shortly go back to being nice, obedient lap dogs... but Americans have actually seen a little bit of actual reporting going on. Maybe the Australian media can pay attention... if, of course, Howard gives them permission.
- Also on Katrina: Boing Boing: Katrina: timelines (or, OMGWTF happened?). Calls bullshit on many claims about when, exactly, people asked for help and/or predicted a disaster.
- Boing Boing: Lemmings implemented in DHTML. Cool! :) See also: Boing Boing: Super Mario Brothers implemented in Javascript.
- This had to happen eventually... Boing Boing: Crooks take anti-forensic countermeasures:
CSI-watching crooks are taking anti-forensic countermeasures to confuse their evidence trails, including throwing dumpster-dived cig butts in stolen-car ashtrays to create a welter of DNA profiles.
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