saturday smorgasbord

i'm about to go to the mall for some good ol' american pleasure spending but can't seem to get away from the heated debate swirling around abc's path to 9/11 turd movie. from what i've found, thinking americans will view this movie with a huge grain of salt and know that tv docudramas are just that; made for tv . manipulation of truth + fantasy writer = boffo ratings? at the expense of truth and understanding. salon has a fabulous opinion piece on this controversy.

thanks to discovery.com i just realized my oh so humble & boring life leaves digital fingerprints all over. i knew using the internet and banks were recorded transactions but the extent to which surveillance and monitoring is intruding in our lives; without our knowledge was a bit of a WTF moment. am i being naive? perhaps but those 'living off the grid' folks don't seem as kookoo to me any more.