And just for funsies, here...

Dear hair-product-making-people (this probably has a word, but fuck me, I can hardly remember my own name and the general constructs of grammar right now),

Please stop putting dimethicone, isopropyl alcohol and parabens into freaking EVERYTHING. Amodimethicone is slightly better but it's kind of pointless to have it ( Read more... )

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Originally posted by tacit (and shared by ashbet, thank you!) at Some thoughts on government funding for research
Every time you buy a hard drive, some of your money goes to the German government.

That's because in the late 1990s, a physicist named Peter Grünberg at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich Research Center) made a rather odd discovery ( Read more... )

It's already made its goal (in one day!) but the more funds it has, the more children will get more reading!

The video on the page is AWESOME, though. Just awesome. I laughed, I cried, it moved me. (No, really.) Watch it. If you watched Reading Rainbow as a kid like I did, you might just tear up a little, too.


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Originally posted by tacit at An open letter to brogrammers
Computer programming is a tough job. It's not for the faint of heart or the fair of sex. It's grueling, high-stress work, demanding that you sit on a comfortable chair in an air-conditioned office for hours on end, typing on a keyboard while looking at a monitor. Women just aren't rugged enough ( Read more... )

Originally posted by ashbet at: [signal boost] Trans woman in need of housing in Western Washington [RP from nonnycat]
Originally posted by nonnycat at [signal boost] Trans woman in need of housing in Western Washington
The short version for signal boosts ( Read more... )

You should read that like this.

frogger414 said something about the cool kids coming back to LJ or something and I realized I've been reading and reading and reading and never ever posting ( Read more... )

Originally posted by naamah_darling at The First Bride.
Thanks to Ashbet for passing it along.

Theodora Goss on the true lesson of Bluebeard, and living as a woman.

When I teach my class on fairy tales, I ask students about the moral of “Bluebeard.” Charles Perrault gives us a moral, clearly marked “moral,” at the end of the tale: “Curiosity, in spite of its appeal ( Read more... )