#mooreandme

I am sort of madly in awe of Sady Doyle. The #mooreandme protest almost makes me want to go back to Twitter. I did send her a message of support, although who knows if it got through all the death and rape threats.

That she's still keeping it up is amazing. Harriet J's comment is worth reading as well.

(And please, if you're going to talk to me about this stuff, read this or this before you do, so as not to anger me and embarrass yourself.)

Reading e-books from Italy

On an entirely different subject, does anyone know the deal for downloading books from other countries? You would think that even if a book is available only in Italian, in Italy, that you could purchase it in Euros from the Italian Amazon site to read on your Kindle. This appears to not be true, and you cannot purchase it if your IP address is in North America. Does this make sense to you? Is there some legal workaround here so that people can - you know - legally purchase e-books they want to purchase?

Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Everyone agrees that there will be a total lunar eclipse overlapping the Solstice tonight.

When the last one was, though, seems to be in doubt: either 1638, according to NASA, or 1554, according to the Gazette's source... NASA..

Doctor Wars

Annie Lennox - In the Bleak Midwinter

Annie Lennox did a holiday album???

The Internet and its Complaints

Given the recent developments in the world of the internet, The Pirate Bay people have begun discussing P2P DNS, which I am deeply unqualified to assess the feasibility of.

Firefox and IE seem to be talking about adding some sort of "Do Not Track" button. I'm not sure I would actually trust it, though, since I was of the understanding the only way to make money with browsers and such is to sell information on the users.

Also, I did not know about Flash Cookies.