Just what is going on here?

(a place to collect the outrageous and perplexing)

Cases in Point:

Australian edublogger blocked by Educational Authorities (23 Nov 2005) --see followup from D'Arcy Norman

29 November
CS Lewis on adaptations of Narnia books:
I shd. be glad for the series to be given abroad. But I am absolutely opposed - adamant isn't in it! - to a TV version. Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. At least, with photography. Cartoons (if only Disney did not combine so much vulgarity with his genius!) wld. be another matter. A human, pantomime, Aslan wld. be to me blasphemy.
(from BoingBoing)
So let me get this straight: copyright is basically forever, but a living author's wishes for the future of his creation are bupkis? I'm shocked.

18 Dec
A visit by Homeland Security: "My instinct is that there is a lot more monitoring than we think," he said... ...but it turned out to be a hoax

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25viii25: CLEARLY wtf.html needs to be brought back to life as a place to cache "the outrageous and perplexing", and the enigmatic, the entangled, the epitomai of the quotidian image stream. Here are some cached at oook.info:

Many more enigmata are collected on my various disk drives, where alas I generally don't have proper records of where I got the lovingly-collected images, so I can't provide proper credit. I'm not sure how to clean up that act... can't really claim 'fair use' without attribution.