A lovely lady on my flist has an urgent question for those people living in SoCal: can you help a cat/several cats in need ( Read more... )

The mass deletion of livejournal accounts over the past twenty-four hours has sickened me completely. Not because of the aim, which was to remove communities and accounts of people who are interested in paedophilia and/or rape in real life, but because of the utterly shallow way it was carried out ( Read more... )

I've been working on my dissertation, and I have a favour to ask of you. I'm posting a poll here, and I would greatly appreciate it if some/lots of you could fill it in ( Read more... )

This might be one of the most amusing things I've ever come across in an academic article ( Read more... )

Since an update on what has been happening would a) take ages to write, b) bore you all to tears and skimming and c) force me to try to remember past yesterday, I'm going to take pity on us all and be disjointed ( Read more... )

So, after all the stress of the last week, I decided that I would forget entirely about coursework this weekend. And so I did, and lo it was good ( Read more... )

Well, my first assignment has been handed in. I'm still hyped on caffeine and a total lack of nutritious food in the last couple of days. Very little sleep due to stress probably isn't helping matters any ( Read more... )

I find this hilarious: 16 years ago, BBC decided to create a digital form of the Domesday Book, with information supplied by over a million people, video and sound clips, distribution stats and more of the population of Great Britain. 16 years ago ( Read more... )

Had my first workshop on graphic reproduction today - was lots of fun, got to make prints out of photos and hang around in a darkroom for a few hours, learning in a group of four. Good times! Tomorrow we swap, so the other group gets the darkroom and we get photoshop. Doesn't look nearly as much fun, but then on the face of it, neither did Quark, ( Read more... )

Should have been busy working. Have instead been busy procrastinating ( Read more... )