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Wild goose chase
So, yesterday I literally sent someone on a WILD GOOSE CHASE. There was a (Canada) goose, looking really poorly and limping near the roundabout near my office. So, rang the RSPCA 3 times (he was in the same spot all day after finding some nice grass) and they didn't so anything, so rang random animal rights people I know. got a call back 3 hours ( Read more... ) -
Bee keeping
I think I'm going to become an apiarist (bee keeper). I've been thinking about this for ages. Due to my health I'm limited how much gardening I can do, and I keep reading about CCD (colony collapse disorder). Basically it seems like bees might go extinct... although lots of bee hobbyists can really help here and CCD tends to affect hives in the ( Read more... ) -
Pat Regan RIP
My friend and ex-colleague (in a manner of speaking) Pat Regan was stabbed to death yesterday at her house. I think Mark at Oblong has put it best:
Pat was a friend and an inspiration to us all. She made connections with different members of the community in a way that other people couldn’t. We had a great deal of respect for the work she did. She ( Read more... ) -
Isn't it funny
How the "pro-life" movement seems to also want to stop lesbians having IVF in the absence of a father figure, never mind how many single mothers there are. Why don't they just call themselves the "Christian" movement and be done with it? -
Machinima
I'm getting semi-obsessed with Machinima, or movies made using 3D engines like computer games. It seems a really fun, emerging art form, obviously placing limits on what can be done but I find people can be very creative with it. Obviously there is some complete dross as well ( Read more... ) -
Labels in a state of flux
One of my current obsessions is finding the cultural implications of the word "Queer", what it means to different people and to what extent it's a Western concept. Obviously, many people still associate it with aging queens, so that's one level. On a more subtle one though, queer as a word and concept really only exists in English - I think as I've ( Read more... ) -
The Queer Website Project is seeking more site contributors!
x-posted furiously.
What we're trying to do
The Queer Web Project aims to make a friendly, welcoming community, enabling communication and information sharing across a global community of queers, building bridges between disparate queer communities. We aim to tie together a number of unsatisfactory, unrelated web technologies the queer community ( Read more... )
