The Endorsement
If you subscribe to Netflix or a competing internet-based video rental service, run don't walk to your HAL and place the motion picture Brick at the top of your queue. If you do not use such a service, run don't walk to your car and make tracks for your local video purveyor and rent Brick. Brick is an oddball film noir set in an Orange County, California high school. Wicked fun. You'll thank me later.

Proud Europa
Three items in the news: another blow to the bad guys in the ongoing Battle for Boeing (hyperlink ein), the powderkeg in France (hyperlink zwei), and a victory for the free exchange of ideas in Denmark (hyperlink drei).