Romney, Torture and teens

While everyone seems to be focusing on how Romney treats his animal companions, there seems to be a bit of a block as to how some of his chosen staffers treat children and teens - en masse.

Reason Magazine posts an article by Maia Szalavitz about Romney's "money man" in Utah - Robert Lichfield. Those who know me or have read this blog since I started it will know that name. Robert Lichfield is beyond a large number of shell companies and overseas behavior modification schools for "defiant teens".

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Brownout in Salem, MA

A PSA of sorts? The wife just called and told me to stay at work due to a brownout in Salem, MA. Only about 500 customers effected according to National Grid / Mass Electric...but it's 90 degrees and about 42% humidity. Could be worse, I suppose.

My body has an incredibly bad habit of shutting down when it's hot and humid. I can't focus, my energy level drops like a rock and I certainly can't sleep...can't imagine that on top of the restless though deep sleep I've been having lately.

Hopefully they'll turn on the hose in the backyard to stay cool...

Social Network/Web 2.0 for Books and Movie Reviews?

I should probably be giving everyone an update about how I'm personally doing as my life has been quite trying of late....I'm struggling with several demons right now and am going through a challenging time. That will have to wait.

I've been playing more and more with Facebook as many of my friends and peers seem to be migrating there. I still need to do some updating of my "Interests" and such but they've recently added a whole slew of Application add-ons that take advantage of other Social Networks users may have accounts on.

I'm running into a dilemma - I've spent a significant amount of time rating the movies I see on the IMDB which is owned by Amazon. Yet despite being one of the very early pioneer of what is now referred to as "Web 2.0", Amazon has not fully migrated them into their system. So here I have years with of movie voting just sitting there...useless.

On the other hand, Amazon.com hasn't done a decent enough job allowing people to export all of their product voting to other social networks that will then compare it to other friends....or folks on the network to do compatibility, make recommendations and the like.

Unless I'm missing something. I've seen a bunch of sites listed like Flickster and others....but why should I have to start all over again. Anyone write an application to allow me to pull off this legacy voting?