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breasts on a plane

by Rob Friesel

via a A. (via J.G.-C. via MSNBC.com): Woman kicked off plane for breast-feeding baby (in Vermont!?!?): Gillette said she was discreetly breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter […] She said she was seated by the window in the next-to-last row, her husband was seated between her and the aisle and no part of her breast was showing. […]

Dr. Rated-X or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MPAA Rating System

by Rob Friesel

What to say about Doctorow‘s write-up of This Film Is Not Yet Rated? My inner libertarian is screaming out: “Heck yes! Fuck ’em and their so-called ratings! Vive le Rated X! Vive le NC-17!” And there’s a lot of compelling reasons to rally around those cries if what he’s saying about the film are true. […]

linkdump.20060828

by Rob Friesel

Seriously, why aren’t we using secure email? Interesting /. slug on getting an African-language Wikipedia(s) up and running. “What use is an encyclopedia when literacy rates among a language’s speakers approach zero?” Flickr appears to have streamlined geo-tagging. w00t! Also: Croque-monsier? Look delicious! currently playing: Blonde Redhead “Elephant Woman”