Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Xeni Jarkov: Facebook hires key defender of Bush's attack on American civil liberties

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Facebook's recently-beefed-up management team includes former White House lawyer Ted Ullyot, who...

team includes former White House lawyer Ted Ullyot, who...
... helped coordinate the response to the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and serv[ed] as chief of staff to former U.S. Atty. General Alberto Gonzales. [He] will join Facebook as its vice president and general counsel next month. Ullyot, who also has had major private sector stints including as a top lawyer for AOL Time Warner Europe, is leaving a partnership with law firm Kirkland & Ellis and will relocate to the Bay Area, he said in a phone call to Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, to apologize. F.B.I. officials said the incident came to light as part of the fabric of our show, and no "favorites" review would be complete without their madcap art-tech-philosophy hijinks.

Above , this one's probably the all-time fave of the BBtv episodes which have featured Barminski's work.

My favorite part of this shoot: driving a VA pickup truck around between the resting airplanes, and peeking into the giant abyss where your bags are shuffled around on giant conveyor belt systems, hopefully towards your plane and final destination.

Link to Boing Boing tv backstage at Outside Lands: Crowdfire deconstructed
* Beijing update: New detentions, 6 US protesters missing, Tibetan protesters in Tibet reportedly shot dead.
* Vlog (Xeni): Tibet report - monks forced to participate in staged videos.
* Monochrom: Falco Stairs
* Leslie Hall: ceWEBrity, gem sweater diva, jammer of jams.