Ace of Spades Headlines

WaPo: NSA slides explain PRISM data-collection program
"The newly released documents below give additional details about how the program operates, including the levels of review and supervisory control at the NSA and FBI. The documents also show how the program interacts with the Internet companies." [rdbrewer]



Hollywood’s ‘New Abnormal’ and The Death of the Movie Star
"[T]he Old Abnormal she defines as the revolution that Spielberg and Lucas ushered into Hollywood via Jaws and Star Wars, and basically exhausted itself sometime after 9/11.... Of course, the Old Abnormal itself replaced an earlier abnormal cinematic era — 'New Hollywood.'" It's like they went from the "studio system" to the "star system." Now they're doing the "story system" or the "character system." Or something. [rdbrewer]




Star Trek Shuttlecraft Galileo Finally Restored
It's the only big set piece left from the series. Nice work, guys. [rdbrewer]