Jill Doughtie

The original Yes Men movie is available on Hulu. I love it.

• Neal Stephenson: In the Beginning was the Command Line
• WikiLeaks: a wiki of leaked documents and news stories
• WikiLeaks plans to make the web a leakier place (ComputerWorld)
• David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster (Gourmet):

  “…watching the fresh-caught lobsters pile over one another, wave their hobbled claws impotently, huddle in the rear corners, or scrabble frantically back from the glass as you approach, it is difficult not to sense that they’re unhappy, or frightened, even if it’s some rudimentary version of these feelings …and, again, why does rudimentariness even enter into it? Why is a primitive, inarticulate form of suffering less urgent or uncomfortable for the person who’s helping to inflict it by paying for the food it results in? I’m not trying to give you a PETA-like screed here—at least I don’t think so. I’m trying, rather, to work out and articulate some of the troubling questions that arise amid all the laughter and saltation and community pride of the Maine Lobster Festival. The truth is that if you, the Festival attendee, permit yourself to think that lobsters can suffer and would rather not, the MLF can begin to take on aspects of something like a Roman circus or medieval torture-fest.” (more)

• Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see (TED)
• Elephant Birth (YouTube)
• 14th Annual At-Home Dad’s Convention