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countdown meme request
First, THANK YOU to all of those who have been placing even just a part of your countdown meme under an LJ-cut. That little step means so much ( Read more... ) -
Signal Boost: Veterans for Peace protest at White House
Thanks to etherial for boosting this so that I got it...
This past Friday, over a hundred US veterans and their civilian supporters chained themselves to the White House fence during a snowstorm to protest the US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. Saying again: this was organized by Veterans for Peace. Veterans...that means something, ( Read more... ) -
World Record for Carolers
Hey, singers ( Read more... ) -
the whole license plate thing
For those who aren't aware, there's a pro-life license plate available in Massachusetts now. It's been the talk of a lot of debate, and I just looked up the laws surrounding special license plate requests, and wanted to make sure the information was spread ( Read more... ) -
Awesome custom yarn site!
Knitters/crocheters!
This website is awesome! http://customyarn.com/
It's the lastest version of the custom yarn builder from Yarnia, Inc, which is a yarn store in Portland, OR that I like. (I have worked online with the owner before, and I've visited the shop while in the area.) It is awesome ( Read more... ) -
Stile Antico - early music a cappella "desk" concert
laurion (who runs The Acapodcast) pointed me to this today on Twitter: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130706090Read more... ) -
Elizabeth Moon, WisCon, and censorship
gaudior wrote a really good post in response to responses on WisCon's response to how Elizabeth Moon responded to the non-Ground Zero non-mosque and the responses to such. Also, I really enjoyed writing that sentence. (gaudior sums up the situation in a footnote of her post, if you don't want to decipher what I just said.) -
Hotel rooms for Arisia
There was question as to the number of hotel rooms left at Arisia at this point. From hotel@arisia.org this morning:
"According to the hotel's STAR groups web site, we've used [87% of the] rooms in the Staff block, [91% of the] rooms in the Quiet block, and [68% of the] Active rooms. So, we should still have a bunch of King rooms available ( Read more... ) -
That's privilege, not persecution.
Standard fine text applies: this is someone else's words, not mine; I agree with much of what they are saying, but not all, and not every nuance of how they say it; this is directed at/covers certain people who make certain claims, and not the entirety of a religious group; I'm probably preaching to the crowd; etc etc.
Christians have convinced ( Read more... )
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