links for 2009-06-27

A YouTube spokesperson said that the new max is 2 GB. It’s clear that HD videos are becoming a significant portion of the new YouTube library, only six months since the site enabled them. YouTube raised the video upload limit to 1 GB from 100 MB in only September 2008.

Dash says, "This was probably the one clip of Michael Jackson I wish everybody had seen."

...having just read a new book by Sherry Wolf called Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation (Haymarket) a few days ago, I am trying to process the information that there were sex-change operations in Soviet Russia during the 1920s. (This was abolished, of course, once Stalinism charted its straight and narrow path to misery.) Who knew? Who, indeed, could even have imagined?

I AM EAGER TO SEE IT. THE TIMING IS WONDERFULLY FORTUITOUS: "The movie doesn't come out until July 10th, but I was invited to an early screening in Hollywood.

I'll leave the reviewing to the professionals, but I will say that if the audience I saw the movie with is any indication, Bruno will be a big hit."