Some wonderful items of interest were posted to BoingBoing while I was away, including reports of: a wall of boobs and a cruise ship fending off Somalian pirates with a sonic blaster. Also of interest was an item about the physics of cow-tipping, which was of particular interest to me, seeing as how during the con someone tried to convince me that cow-tipping was a myth (and that cows don’t sleep standing up); also, yesterday I bought a cow-tipping shirt at the Madison airport (a little local flava), so the subject was on my mind.

If you would all just read BoingBoing everyday, I wouldn’t have to post these things.

But the real reason I wanted to post about BoingBoing today is because of the story they posted about a new stupid Wi-Fi law being proposed. That post serves as a perfect example of the idiocy of the government, and how without watchdogs like Cory Doctorow and other journalists who point out such idiocy, this country would completely go to hell. Obviously, the issue of Wi-Fi is not an issue of monumental importance to the general public, but critical issues are dealt with by the government with that same clusterfuckery.

Jeremy Tolbert published a story in Interzone recently which postulated a future that included an “Otaku” political party–a geek party, for you non-geeks reading this (as if I would have any non-geek readers!). The story is a fun, farcical romp (not at all a political diatribe), but all this political bullshit that’s been going on lately here in the real world makes me long for such a party.

Cory for President! Doctorow in 2008!