There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Um. So Chris Jarvis was asked to leave a job center in London for refusing to remove his hood. Why did he not comply? Because he's a Jedi, and a member of the Church of Jediism. The job center apologized after Jarvis filed a discrimination complaint, and the Jedi told The Sun that donning his hood is basically the same as wearing a hijab. Because George Lucas's fantasy is equivalent to the beautiful 1,400-year-old faith known as Islam. No wonder this guy was unemployed. [From: The Sun]
- Blogger Jason Kottke wrote an interesting post yesterday about what he sees as the new process for reviewing media, noting that many customer reviews take a product's formatting and packaging into account. While, in the past, professional reviewers almost exclusively focused on content, current amateur reviewers, Kottke argues, consider a book's availability as an audiobook or Kindle edition, for example, as critical to its value. How we consume given media is just as important as the content, itself. We know that David Lynch would probably agree. [From: Kottke.org]
- And we'll sign off today with something pretty. German and Swiss designers Fabian Nehne and Martin Meiera have created the RGB Light, a lamp inspired by the additive color model that allows you to read this post on your monitor. While we know we'll probably never own this gorgeous lamp, we can drool, all the same. [From: MoCoLoco]
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Subscribe to commentsYogiMar 17th 2010 8:21PM
I hope they somehow find a way to punish this guy, being stupid should not be an excuse to bend the rules to your will. being a Jedi is in no one comparable to being Muslim. You can not create a religion based on a film, then make the world around you live by your rules because of it. If I had been security he would be a bloodied and hospitalized Jedi, instead of just some idiot who has successfully turned society into his *****.
havok360Mar 17th 2010 8:22PM
is in no way comparable*
YogiMar 17th 2010 8:23PM
is in no WAY comparable**
oliverfwarrenMar 17th 2010 8:34PM
I vehemently disagree. Seeing as all religions are based on fiction, why can't Jedi be a real religion too? I don't see what Islam being 1400 years old has to do with anything - it's not until very recently that we've had an almost complete understanding of the Universe, so I can't blame Religion for the last 1350 years of ignorance (even though they did contribute to it a lot). In modern society though, I think anything can be a religion if people want it to be - provided it does not harm/disadvantage others.
RedHeronMar 18th 2010 2:39PM
As a Jedi, some of what I see is actually stupid to me. There are kids who think that being a Jedi is somehow going to bestow mental powers, or they treat the whole thing as a game. I hold my own beliefs as sacred to me. And that means that there is validity in all beliefs, even those I disagree with.
I mean, really: if it's not hurting anyone, why is it a problem? Let some odd twit (yes, I'm a Jedi and I view the gentleman as an odd twit) wear his hood. It's a real belief for him, and one that he may actually have been required to do by his mentor (and is thus religious compliance).
The films relay principles which have existed for thousands of years in other religions. Are we going to punish a Sikh for carrying a blade--one bolted securely inside of its sheath so that it poses no threat--into a job interview? Are we going to tell atheists that they're not allowed to preach against religion? Really, this issue is far-reaching. Failure to protect one religion is a failure to protect the right to believe--and by proxy, the right to disbelieve.
That's why it's right to protect the Jedi hood thing... not because anyone agrees with it, not because it's desirable, and not even because it's harmless: but because failure to protect it is a failure to protect one's own right to be free to express.
How many atheists are ready to go to, say, Pakistan and preach that Islam is wrong? They'll behead you for heresy. In protecting the right to believe, you promote your own right to bring rationality into the conversation.
Just my own two cents' worth.
BKMar 17th 2010 10:13PM
While I think its silly to be a Jedi, I fail to see how making up a religion based on a movie is less far fetched than many of the stories these ancient books tell, many of which could very well have been intended as fiction by their authors. Are we using the logic that a religion is 'better' because its older? A religion that lasts a thousand years must be a real and beautiful religion? A lot of very bad religions of the past lasted thousands of years; it doesn't make the things they did okay and not insane.
So this Jedi is insane? Yeah. But guess what. So are the people in 'legit' religions.