The House passed HR 418, the “Real ID Act” today. If passed in the Senate and signed into law, this would effectively create a national ID card and database of all licenced citizens, administered by the Homeland Security department. Needless to say, civil libertarians and other people with good common sense think this is a Bad Idea. House Republicans are of course touting this as a way to protect our sweet little american babies from terrorists. And I’m sitting here wondering what the hell country I woke up in this morning. It looks like America…

The ten geekiest hobbies. They forgot to include blogging. “Live action role playing, or LARP […] it’s like a renaissance faire and backyard wrestling met, had demonic babies, and gave them weapons.&#8221

A group of sci-fi geeks have penned an inpromptu dirge for the Star Trek franchise, and the genre in general, in this mefi thread about the demise of Star Trek: Enterprise. A good read in general for any fanboy/girl or -er/-ie, but the bonus is concrete proof that I’m not the only one who harbors a secret love for Deep Space Nine over the other series.

I’ve been following mefi again lately, and am realizing threads like that one are the entire reason for sticking your head under the torrent of linkage and discussion mefi has become. Still, the overarching “it’s-not-the-same”ness keeps me from diving into the threads too often.

I don’t know if being nostalgic for a web site is the type of wierd to sew a new patch on you freak flag for, or the type of wierd to be deeply, deeply ashamed of.