What’s big, grey, and if it fell out of a tree, it’d kill you?
A castle…
Microblogging service Twitter helped an American protester, a UC Berkeley student, get out of jail in Egypt. James Buck was photographing a factory worker protest when he, along with a bunch of Egyptian blogger-journalists, was arrested and thrown in jail. According to the Mercury News article, Buck texted “ARRESTED” to Twitter - a message that was instantly received by many of his Twitter “followers”. They then proceeded to give him advice on how to deal with the situation.
To Buck’s credit, his main concern is that as a white American he got out of jail with few problems, while the Egyptian journalists and bloggers that he was arrested with, as well as his translator, are still being detained, many without charges.
Behold - the power of intarweb!
In other news, I finally saw Persepolis - it’s been in theatres 14 weeks, so I obviously fail at seeing the associated movies of books I’ve loved - and it was amazing. It’s the beautifully and evocatively animated autobiography of Iranian Marjane Satrapi’s coming of age during the Islamic Revolution… so if you’re at all political, or artistic, or sentimental, or into movies, and you haven’t seen it - do.
