Rad Geek People's Daily 2009-10-05

Monday Lazy Linking (posted 5 October 2009, 2pm / revised 10pm 16 October 2009)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 15 years ago, in 2009, on the World Wide Web.

RPS. xkcd.com (2009-10-04). (Linked Sunday 2009-10-04.)
Polanski, "Hounddog" and 13-year-old voices. Kate Harding, Salon: Broadsheet (2009-10-02). Earlier this week, I was talking to a friend about l’affair Polanski, and she brought up a really good point: Remember the "Hounddog" controversy? (No? Then you might remember the "Dakota Fanning Rape Movie" controversy.) In that case, a female writer-director, Deborah Kampmeier, was excoriated for depicting a fictional child… (Linked Monday 2009-10-05.)