Writers on strike
Here’s a sane and fair-minded account of why the people who write our entertainment (without whom, of course, there would be no entertainment) started withholding their labor power this week. (Note for comics fans, such as Laura: the speaker, Brian Vaughan, did some of the writing on Runaways, our current favorite Marvel series.)
This fight has nothing to do with software writers like me, as far as I can tell, but if I see a picket line around here I’ll enthusiastically not cross it.
Categorised as: Geekery
That was good– but here’s a summary that’s distilled to about 150 proof:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=127766&title=moment-of-zen-torture
Advisory: the John McCain bit that follows will give your brain whiplash, but is maybe more related than you’d think. And the web ad that follows _that_ is, unintentionally, priceless. Another non sequitur that turns out to be related– in this case, by proving Stewart’s point.