Links for the Day (July 15, 2008)

1. "First Guantanamo video released": From BBC News. The video in question is at the top of the article.

["A videotape of a detainee being questioned at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has been released for the first time. It shows 16-year-old Omar Khadr being asked by Canadian officials in 2003 about events leading up to his capture by US forces, Canadian media have said. The Canadian citizen is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. He is seen in a distressed state and complaining about the medical care. The footage was made public by Mr Khadr's lawyers following a Supreme Court ruling in May that the Canadian authorities had to hand over key evidence against him to allow a full defence of the charges he is facing. "]

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2. "FilmCrit and the Skidoo Epiphany": Tom Sutpen goes from Salinger to Skidoo at Bright Lights Film Journal.

["I saw Skidoo for the first time on television (where else) sometime in the mid 1980s. I'll confess to being somewhat eager beforehand. You see, I was already a confirmed fanatic when it came to its director. More crucially, I was still careening heedlessly through the as-yet-undiscovered (by me) niches and alleyways and hidey-holes of cinema; fully intoxicated by that post-adolescent auteurist fever-dream where something . . . anything . . . could always be found that would redeem even the most maudit of maudit works."]

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3. "Secret Printer Dots Raise Privacy Concerns": From AOL News.

["The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you're printing on. More manufacturers are outfitting greater numbers of laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page to identify the printer's serial number - and ultimately, you, says the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the leading watchdogs of electronic privacy."]

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4. "Karl Rove meets the press": Alan Sepinwall comes face-to-face with M.C. Rove.

["Karl Rove will not testify under oath before Congress, but he did submit to questions from TV critics. Rove, now a regular contributor to Fox News Channel, appeared on a panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, along with FNC vice president John Moody, anchorman Chris Wallace and fellow campaign operative turned pundit Howard Wolfson. If there was personal or political antipathy toward Rove, President Bush's former deputy chief of staff, from members of the alleged liberal media elite, it showed itself very rarely during the 45-minute Q&A. Most of the early questions were softballs: "]

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5. "Stripper, 80, still taking her clothes off": A CNN profile of burlesque artist Tempest Storm.

["Tempest Storm is fuming. Her fingers tremble with frustration. They are aged, knotted by arthritis and speckled with purple spots under paper skin. But the manicure of orange polish is flawless and new, and matches her signature tousled mane. She brushes orange curls out of her face as she explains how she's been slighted. She is the headliner, you know. She is a star. She is classy. "I don't just get up there and rip my clothes off," she says. Indeed, the 80-year-old burlesque queen takes her clothes off very slowly. More than 50 years ago she was dubbed the "Girl with the Fabulous Front" and told by famous men she had the "Best Two Props in Hollywood." Since then, Storm saw the art that made her famous on the brink of extinction. Her contemporaries -- Blaze Starr, Bettie Page, Lili St. Cyr -- have died or hung up the pasties. But not Storm. She kept performing. Las Vegas, Reno, Palm Springs, Miami, Carnegie Hall."]

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Quote of the Day: Frank Lloyd Wright

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

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Image of the Day (click to enlarge): Camp Obama is not amused.



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Clip of the Day: Miss USA slips, falls, and gets right back up. Read as you will...

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