• [Inside ‘Mad Men’: On Set and Behind the Scenes of the Emmy- Winning Show Rolling Stone Music Photos](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/photos/17382/196362/6)

  • U-Boot 1.1.2 (Oct 29 2007 - 16:35:25) *** Welcome to Kindle *** U-Boot code: A3F00000 -> A3F3FA6C BSS: -> A3F77850 REV2 Bootloader: Kindle 400 MHz REV2 Board, Revision #9 … booting the kernel. Linux version 2.6.10-lab126 (build@lab126-build) (gcc version 3.4.2) #1 Mon Oct 29 16:38:09 PST 2007 CPU: XScale-PXA255 [69052d06] revision 6 (ARMv5TE) CPU: D VIVT undefined 5 cache CPU: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets CPU: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets Machine: Fiona Platform

    Why every one doesn’t come pre-loaded with a copy I’ll never know.

  • When it was time for questions we stood in line at a microphone. I didn’t catch where the first guy was from, but he said that he worked at “naval headquarters” during the Carter administration and remembered an officer telling him, “Do you know we have aliens on ice?”

    The man said he had been contacted twice by aliens, both times in Santa Monica, Calif.

    Another man got up to say that there is almost certain geological proof that two planet-wide nuclear wars have taken place on Earth.

    “Do you have a question?” Hastings asked.

    “Are you aware,” the man said, “that the NSA was partially founded to monitor aliens?”

    Hastings said he had heard the rumors about the NSA. And about the CIA.

    A man who identified himself as “from Lancaster County” said the ability to combine human DNA with non-human DNA is not farfetched. Murder, he said, is the unlawful killing of a human being.

    “Nowhere does it say it has to be 100 percent human,” he said.

  • If you’re not worried about the actual jack-booted thugs staging actual midnight raids in America today, you can’t expect to be taken seriously seriously when you warn that some policy you oppose could lead to jack-booted thugs staging midnight raids at some point in the future. And the party that has pushed relentlessly for warrantless surveillance, imprisonment without trial, and the normalization of torture has no business lecturing us about how the other party’s policies will, eventually, lead us to a police state.

    —[The Actual Road to Serfdom Bottom-up](http://timothyblee.com/2010/09/27/the-actual-road-to-serfdom/)