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May 23, 2006
"Your map is inexact. These landmarks... is this a river?" "No, it's a wavy line. I didn't draw it, I just transcribed it. I told you, I don't even know if it is a map." "Let's assume it is."
For his new project, the writer/director of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, got Sarah Michelle Gellar to play a porn star.
I expected more news from Seymour Hersh's bit on the NSA spying but all I got was this corroborating nugget:
Last December, the Times reported that the N.S.A. was listening in on calls between people in the United States and people in other countries, and a few weeks ago USA Today reported that the agency was collecting information on millions of private domestic calls. A security consultant working with a major telecommunications carrier told me that his client set up a top-secret high-speed circuit between its main computer complex and Quantico, Virginia, the site of a government-intelligence computer center. This link provided direct access to the carrier’s network core—the critical area of its system, where all its data are stored. “What the companies are doing is worse than turning over records,” the consultant said. “They’re providing total access to all the data.”
Supposedly the Lost writers are big Robert Anton Wilson fans but I can't find the origin of this rumor or whether or not it's true.
Posted by Jon Rubin at May 23, 2006 11:06 PM
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