Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update
* so apparently they're still having Everybody Draw Muhammed Day, and apparently Pakistan is still taking draconian measures as to its Internet infrastructure in order to thwart the dissemination of the results. I think it's sort of unfortunate that people are still doing this, because its founder, the cartoonist Molly Norris, bailed out on it as soon as it struck a nerve and ended up going into hiding for threats of reprisal. Norris has her name still attached in various feature articles even though she has about as much to do with whatever happened Sunday as Bill Murray had with Meatballs 4. As far as the event itself, the whole thing seems silly to me, although I guess it's intriguing to see a country take a run at denying cornerstone-level Internet service for a temporary period of time. They did something similar with Facebook and twitter in 2010. I don't remember an event or any hullabaloo last year.
* in another stunning development, the use of Danish Muhammed cartoons in a political protest in Germany has people mad enough to suggest that there will be reprisals.
