Lazy Monday: slow news link dump

The boss is in NYC today to do a guest shot on O’Reilly. We’ll have the video here later. In the meantime, ain’t nothing going on but the rent. Links to keep you busy:

Multimedia:

• Video of the day: You don’t even have to watch. Just listen to the sound it makes.
• Runner-up: Superman Returns with a gorgeous, widescreen hi-rez trailer.
• Runner-up: The Ten Commandments as a teen comedy. Stick with it or you’ll miss Samuel L. Jackson’s “cameo.”
• Runner-up: The BBC interviews the wrong man. Here’s the background if you missed the story last week. Watch his face when they announce him.
• Runner-up: Our Paris affiliate, No Pasaran, has video from New York of Eugene Schlanger reciting one of his poems. Why is that interesting? Click and see.

Text links:

• The word “dissident” finally loses all meaning.
• Women are turning into men and men are turning into women.
• Jed Babbin says China wants war. They do seem to be preparing, in various ways. If only we didn’t have so much power.
• We’re all Jesus’ children. Literally.
• Oil-for-food, the U.S. version. Note the Drudge Retort headline. Heh.
• Now’s your chance, fellas.
• Appropriately, Loose Change dethrones media-blackout martyr Stephen Colbert on the Google Video Hot 100. Celebrate by paying my new favorite blog a visit.
• For our UK readers: your tax dollars at work.
• Scroll this list and note how many times Jessica Alba and Chuck Norris appear.
• More fun with Google tools. No wonder Alba’s number five on the Irish zeitgeist.

Finally, here’s a very cool selection of historic audio from the Free Information Society. I recommend Theodore Roosevelt on democracy followed quickly by Al Pacino from Scarface.

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