Ipad apps and where I get my snark from..

Via Kidbro (who is one of the many reasons I support the Strike against SOPA/PIPA, he does a lot of internet work and runs his own small internet marketing business - must defend the BRO! Even if he's oblivious) and the Momster - a few cool apps:

NPR
BBC World News
PBS - which includes Sherlock S2 and all the Dowtown Abbey episodes - yay!

( personal )

Proof that Sometimes Mass Action Protests Work!

The mass internet protest against SOPA and IPA sort of worked. IT made the Senate and Congress do more than blink. No longer is the majority in support of the bill. Oddly although if you think about it, maybe not so ironically, more Republicans are against the bill than Democrats. Republicans tend to be libertarians by nature and somewhat suspicious of laws.. Also they are negative against anything brought by Democrats.
I'm not a libertarian - because, hello, extremist. I'm a moderate in all things. And against SOPA/PIPA because it was too broad and hurt people who were innocent. I defend human rights. My State Senators, Democrats, are for the bill. But I let them know I wasn't. As did millions of others. We fought back. The Internet SCREAMED NO! And it got results, now 33 Senators are against it, and quite a few in the House. They've sent it back to workshop for more reworking. YAY!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/19/1056312/-Massive-day-of-action-defeats-SOPA-and-PIPA-as-written,-but-rewrites-loom

Justified - The Gunfighter - Perfect example of how to build with show not tell

Momster: Have you seen Justified yet?
ME: not yet, but on DVR. Is it good?
Momster: Oh so good. The lines, the dialogue, the acting. Brilliant. Also your father and I have been listening to interviews with Timothy Olyphant (the Momster's new TV boyfriend). In the NPR interview he was talking about his kids wanting a cat. So he bought some cat food, put it out in the yard and slowly brought it to the door, luring the neighbor's kitty. Now, he tells the interviewer, the kids get to play with a kitty, but I don't have to buy a cat, I can just borrow the neighbor's kitty. In another interview - on the radio that your father listened to..he said that originally Raylan Gibbons Boyd Crowder was supposed to be really racist, but Olyphant Wayne Goggins refused to play it that way and changed the character. He didn't want the character to be racist. (Not at all surprised, FX is obsessed with dark nasty anti-heroes, and thinks it's more realistic. Seriously, it's frigging television, it's not REALISTIC. NO TV SHOW IS! NOT EVEN THE REALITY ONES. It's just offensive and makes the writers look like asswipes or barking dogs. So - Kudos to Tim Olyphant Wayne Goggins, the Momster has great taste in tv boyfriends. Even when she steals mine. ;-) ETA: Apparently my father listened to two interviews back to back while driving and confused Goggins interview with Olyphant's - see comments in lj for clarification - sorry for confusion.)

Just saw the newest episode of Justified and it definitely has the best dialogue of any show I've seen on tv or netflix in the last six months. Will give it that. I kept rewinding. Very well written. Also the most violent television show I've seen next to possibly The Walking Dead.

Violence Meter? Hmmm. Well let's see three possibly four gunfights. Six people dead. Two people beaten up. But hey, equal opportunity, one is hit in the head with a skillet by a woman. Also a woman is shot in the head - sort of cold-blooded. So, I'd say about a 10 on the rictor scale.
Yet, oddly, still less violent than the Sopranoes, True Blood, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and The Wire. Which hold the record.

If you ignore the violence, which I do, because it's not that bad - relatively little gore or blood, and mostly noise, also no one you remotely care about. The hero does get wounded from time to time, but not dead. Because, hello, the hero. You don't kill the leads in these shows - they aren't soap operas, if they die they are sort of gone and then the show is well over. Which is why non-soap serial dramas are comforting, you know the lead characters will survive and beat the bad guys for at least the length of the series. It's when the series is about to end that you should start worrying. Then anything is possible.

( Justified spoilers )