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Huh. Who left this old thing lying around?
Wow. A livejournal. I'd forgotten I had one of these things. Wonder if it still works.
*rattle, rattle. Tink, tink, tink*
Hmm. Seems to be in working order. Amazing how technology holds up these days.
So, ruminations on Wiscon. I went. It was good. I came back ( Read more... ) -
Gender bias in a nutshell
Once again, XKCD gets it right:
http://xkcd.com/385/
I'm going back to bed. Wake me up when I can be judged on my merits as an individual human being, and not as a representative for an entire catagory of people that I only nominally self-identify with. -
Uh...
Whoa. I knew the show was strange, but this is even weirder than I remembered:
And what the heck is the upside-down dildo in the Batmobile? -
Obama supporters FTW
This is a great bit of inspirational propaganda. Some of the commenters criticize it for lacking any substance, but I think that there's a difference between policy and the more ephemeral mood that is brought to a regime. The rhetoric of the recent administration was one of fear, divisiveness, and unquestioning acceptance. This rhetoric is ( Read more... ) -
Foxes and Balls
I watched this for the very pretty arctic fox, but I stayed to watch the ball clip, cause it's fascinating to watch.http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=9543&collection=topstory&nav= -
Everyone who cares has probably seen these by now, but..
So, I was browsing youtube and I found this video, which is a matrix ping-pong style vid ( Read more... ) -
The Organization for Transformative Works
Why am I only hearing about this now? I swear, you leave LJ for a few months and suddenly it's like a whole new world ( Read more... ) -
1, 2, 3, 4, What the hell are we fighting for?
So, for those of you who haven't heard about the NIE yet, a consensus agreement was just released by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that says they have "high confidence" that Iran shut down its nuclear weapon development programs in the Fall of 2003, and does not currently have intentions towards reopening them. Despite having been advised of ( Read more... )
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