Want to rule your favorite message board? Want to have thousands (or tens of thousands) of strangers hanging on your every blogged word?
Wired shows you how. And yeah, it’s not hard to spot folks doing one or more of these techniques if you frequent message boards or blogs.
More fun with Wikipedia:
We all have thought Congress toys with the truth at times. Now, there appears to be proof of it at Wikipedia.
The publicly edited online encyclopedia says it has instituted a one-week ban on Congress from making additions or changes to the site. The ban follows discovery that a senior staff for a Massachusetts congressman authorized changes to his Wikipedia biography that distorted facts.
According to a newspaper investigation, staff for Democratic Rep. Marty Meehan made changes to Meehan’s biography that replaced negative yet accurate information with content having a more positive slant. Among the changes: removing references to Meehan’s promise to serve only eight years.
Further review uncovered thousands of changes made to other Wikipedia entries by House and Senate staffers since last summer. Unlike the Meehan edits, however, some changes weren’t complementary. In one instance, someone from the House wrote that Republican Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia “smells like cow dung.” In another, someone removed criticism of Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware from his Wikipedia page.
I have never personally smelled Rep. Cantor and cannot comment on the veracity of that entry.
Happy 29th, bebe.
We are celebrating the traditional way: By taking the kittens to the vet to be fixed.
(Well, we also went out for a nice breakfast at Shelly’s Place, an OK salad lunch at the Green Tree Inn and Wendy’s for dinner after the school board meeting. I also got her two original pages from “Wonder Woman” #162 custom-framed.)
Orlando Bloom packs on the pounds and muscle to play a 12th century blacksmith turned Crusader turned baron in Kingdom of Heaven
, a strong “historical” action-adventure.
The action moves quickly from France to the Middle East, where the tale becomes a parable on the endless futility of Middle Eastern conflict. Despite a few “ripped from today’s headlines” speeches, the action is well-done, the military conflict interesting and there are strong performances all around. The climactic battle at the Christopher Gate of Jerusalem, if it doesn’t quite measure up to similar siege sequences in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies, is exciting and involving, even if the populism seems a few centuries early.
Great fun with a more rounded story than the more intense Gladiator.
Strongly recommended for fans of getting medieval.
Red Eye doesn’t have many ambitions beyond being the ultimate “bad guy to sit next to on an airplane” story. It’s like an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents given a slightly longer running time.
Fortunately, Rachel McAdams, who has to carry this film, does an admirable job of doing so, without the sort of “look at this great performance” stuff a bigger name might well have given us. And that elevates this bit of fluff into being quite impressive fluff.
Fun stuff, and a film that should definitely keep McAdams’ star on the rise and help director Wes Craven get more chances to spread his wings without Freddy Kruger around.
A definite recommendation for thriller fans.
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