We now have syndication here on livejournal for people who prefer to follow it on their reader list.

I have joined forces with a few other bloggers to transition my spirituality-oriented essays (read as: ramblings) over a consolidated site called Weaving Wyrd. Let me know what you think!

I'll have an LJ-specific feed set up for it as soon as possible.

I know I am going to get flamed for this and that this is a delicate issue for a lot of people, but ( Read more... )

Go download and play it!

A friend of mine has been working on the English translation, and it has just been released ^_^

Some anime that is on Hulu:

• Romeo x Juliet (with apologies to Shakespeare). Really, it is Zorro with flying horses and flying cities.
  
• Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid
  
• Rurouni Kenshin
  
• Slayers: EVOLUTION-R (also Evolution
  
• Chevalier d'Eon (particularly fun for gender benders, he turns into a girl pretty quickly)
  
• Hikaru no Go
  

...and that's ( Read more... )

In men's figure skating there was an upset when the American Lysacek took the gold over the Russian Plushenko. Since then it turns out that Lysacek is a gracious winner and Plushenko is a sore loser, stirring up controversy, badmouthing Lysacek, and claiming the "platinum" medal in the olympics ( Read more... )

I am withholding judgement. Completely.

This has too many marks of the Day Care Sex Abuse Hysteria of the 80's and 90's, and the only resources out there are--in short--not the most reliable. One article looked like it had been written for Simple Wikipedia, another by a blogger with aspirations of making a name finding a "big case," and these ( Read more... )

Hikaru no Go is up on Hulu!

Yesterday I was in the Golden lapidary and picked up something that was labeled "Iceland Spar Calcite," from Brazil. The oddness of the origin vs. the name aside, it was fascinating to play with due to its double refraction (basically it creates a double image of things viewed through it). After a bit of research, I found out that it has been ( Read more... )

Transgender Day of Remembrance