Couple of Things

I'm getting lazy again.

First up, some pretty worrying news from LGF- the "international community", meaning mainly Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran, (you know, places where the internet is heavily censored) and several African states are upset that the United States pioneered the internet and *gasp* still retains control of it. That's just silly, they want to be in charge too! Not surprisingly, the US told them where to go- but the EU decided that it wasn't fair either and now it looks like they will try to wrest power of the internet from the US via the UN. Doesn't the US pay most of their bills too? Time to pull the plug....

Could we be witnessing the end of the freedom of the internet? How long before Iran begins to demand un-Islamic sites are shut down?

Second, Gary Reeder reports that Freedom Arms are developing a new catridge- the .500 Wyoming Express to replace the .50 Action Express in their line up. No specs on it yet but the .500 pistol calibres are beginning to mount up- .500 Linebaugh, .50 AE, .50 GI and .500 Smith and Wesson Magnum. Where will the .50 WE fit in?

This made me think of the classic and under-rated Romero movie, The Crazies- a FedEx plane carrying vials of research viruses crashed in downtown Winnipeg. The vials contained nothing sinister and their contents were apparently incinerated in the crash.

And look- this is another Romero film getting a remake! The director is Brad Anderson- he's worked on The Shield and The Wire and he did The Machinist (which i haven't yet seen). I know him from creepy horror movie Session 9. Well worth seeing. Based on that resume I'm quite looking forward to seeing this.