Awww

As the US does its precious "oh wait, we've been wrongfully invading countries, killing and torturing people for the last 8 years in the name of a Democracy whose spread will supposedly benefit everyone because of the human rights it brings", the UK has it's own cute little unique quirks going on.

November 25th saw the beginning of National ID cards being handed out (for the first time since WWII), and by 2010 they want to have a comprehensive National ID Register that will track people's movements and personal information, and has no upper limit restrictions on what information may be stored on it. Now a page on Wikipedia on a German rock band (Scorpions, if you're curious) has attracted ire because one of the band's album's covers features a nude girl, and so is considered child pornography. The page was censored--at this time I don't know if I can't see it because the picture has been removed by users or by UK internet providers. Still, fun business.

Personal-wise: Had two bad lectures today. The stats (in SD) one covered so much ground so generally that it ended up both confusing and full of inaccuracies and half-truths that even I could spot. In Philosophy I may just have been tired, but the lecture seemed to jump around a lot and not have a concrete point or central idea, and several of the ideas contradicted one another. I have been managing to keep on top of the reading, though, so that's good. The the first night of Macbeth, which went pretty well. I know my lines, which is exciting because I realised "oh, I should learn these" this last Friday, as we were not given an off-book date. As I type most of my upper body/face/hair is painted red for ghostiness. This weekend is party heavy, next week almost empty, and I am looking forward to getting back to LA.