Three interesting things

That I've been thinking about this morning and I feel compelled to share:

1. For Doctor Who fans, Steven Moffat is taking over as showrunner in 2010 and that's the best that everyone was hoping for. He's written some of the best episodes of the new series (his dialogue is what made Captain Jack so awesome in the first place and that, my friends, is all kinds of awesome.) Anyway, I know that the posters on Ain't It Cool (the inspiration for Jay and Silent Bob's Movie Poop Chute) and the Doctor Who Forum have been clamoring for this forever and I'm excited about it too. Russell T. Davies gets a lot of hate from fandom because of his general disdain for Internet fans, his supposed pushing of a "gay agenda", and the fact that the stories he writes feature some juvenile humor (Slitheen flatulence did make me cringe) and deus ex machina endings (I can see the problems some people have with the Doctor/Jesus posturing, but the "Face of Boe" reveal almost made me wet myself.)

But he brought it back from the dead and made it more popular than ever (they show it on Sci-Fi, BBC America, AND Public Television now. When I was little, it was relegated to Channel 36 in Milwaukee (the second lower-powered public television station) at 10:30 on Fridays!) and I think he should be knighted and get the Congressional Medal of Freedom for that fact alone. Anyway, it's awesome news for fans.

2. Closer to home, even though I genuinely like Mike Verveer (an honest politician and a good man), I don't like his idea of outlawing stores from selling single bottles of beer and liquor downtown. It seems like that will just shuffle the homeless to a different area of the city through regulation. It's like the South Park where they get all the homeless in town to move to California I don't think that putting restrictions on what law-abiding citizens can do is much of a solution to the issue. It just seem like just a way to "do something, anything" in response to the murder of Britney Zimmerman, but if outlawing Forties and Mad Dog 20/20 in the city hasn't done much, I doubt regulating beer and liquor sales will as well. Legislating people against themselves is just more nanny state and we've had quite enough of that.

3. And finally, if you're a cubicle slave, here's something to give you a little hope. Now that Best Buy's gone all telecommuting, they're a great example of how focusing on results instead of meetings and sitting in your cube watching your soul slowly decompose might be the way to go (and indeed, our friends who work at Best Buy talk about what a sweet setup it is.) Anyway, check out the article if you're looking to see what hopefully the office of the next decade will look like - wherever you want it to be.