http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/26/technology/fcc-net-neutrality/index.html

The attempt to roll back net neutrality has officially begun.

Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, laid out plans Wednesday to limit the agency’s oversight of Internet service providers, potentially weakening enforcement of net neutrality.

The net neutrality rules, approved by the FCC in 2015, are intended to keep the Internet open and fair. The rules prevent Internet providers from playing favorites by deliberately speeding up or slowing down traffic from specific websites and apps.

Check In: Nanny and the Professor (1970)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0065326/

I’ve got a good mind to call Allison “Phoebe Figalilly.”

Check In: Gearjammers, Part 2 (1975)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0688008/

A lot of preamble for part two…  Back from when folks didn’t have DVR or may not have seen part one at all.

The most memorable aspect of the movie Road House for me is that you can change graffiti with the f word to the word Buick.

Movie had nothing to do with my cooler gig back in the day. 

Deadites: Yes. Mountain lions: no.

Mr Britton said he raised his chainsaw and met the lion head-on as it pounced – a collision he described as feeling like a grown man running directly into him.

“It batted me three or four times with its front paws and as quick as I hit it with that saw it just turned away,” he told the Associated Press.

The wounded animal retreated after Mr Britton inflicted a six to eight-inch gash on the lion’s shoulder. Mr Britton was left with only a small puncture wound on his forearm.

“You would think if you hit an animal with a chainsaw it would dig right in,” he said. “I might as well have hit it with a hockey stick.”

http://loweringthebar.net/2015/05/octopus-honorary-vertebrate.html

Those of you who specialize in octopus law already know this, of course, but I just learned that at least in the European Union the octopus is treated as a vertebrate for certain legal purposes.