[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] So, you need a typeface… Flowchart for choosing a typeface. Funny and useful… Omani sailors voyage back in time aboard 9th century ship – CNN.com "Jewel of Muscat" is a copy of an Omani trading vessel [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] What’s the Obama White House afraid of? Lafayette Park closed, media banned during GetEqual protest In a move that suggests the White House is feeling the heat on its slow-motion approach toward repealing DADT, it’s now [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Digby: Sociopathic Paychecks Howie wrote a great post about CEO pay yesterday, in anticipation of a piece about the new wave of "run government like a business" candidates from the right (despite what should be populist [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Wordless Wednesday: Dead last [Maternity leave stats. --L.] "Dune" Started As A Nonfiction Article About Oregon's Ecosystem [Quote Of The Day] Mexican Authorities Block Abortion For 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Confederate History Month [Slacktivist quotes Frederick Douglass. [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] School district admits to taking webcam pictures Now that they’re facing a lawsuit and and FBI investigation, the Lower Merion School District has decided to come clean and hand over 56,000 photos it took of students [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Remembering Dede Allen Dede Allen is probably a name you have never heard of. But even though you and I don’t know her what’s important to remember on this day after her passing is that she [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The Amount Of Free Scifi TV On Hulu Is Mind-Boggling [Hulu] Click here to read The Amount Of Free Scifi TV On Hulu Is Mind-BogglingMost of us use Hulu to catch up on last night's episode [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Invisible female labor That fashion is pleasurable for many women is why it’s considered “frivolous”, due to the long-standing cultural belief that if a woman is feeling pleasure, something must have gone wrong. So I look [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] 5 RANGERS X 01 Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Tea Party Racist Overtones Goldman Sachs Sued for Securities Fraud by SEC The assertion that the accusations are "completely unfounded in law and fact" is hilarious. As [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Federal District Court Rules "National Day of Prayer" Unconstitutional A Wisconsin federal district court held yesterday, in a suit brought against the President by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, that the law requiring the President to [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Sexy Sexy Folk Music No, your eyes [or other reading technology] are not deceiving you. This song is about a woman who out-fucks the devil. Now, it’s not without its problems. But what I love about [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Crying All The Way To The Bank Have you ever noticed how these discussions about male brains and female brains usually produce weird caricatures of the most extreme types of men and women we may have [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Male Submission Art: Chains wrap a young man’s wrists as he holds his hands together, bowing his head. Chains wrap a young man’s wrists as he holds his hands together, bowing his head. I love the [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] (Russian) Children Now Subject to No-Fault Warranty, Apparently Perhaps you’ve already heard about Artyom Saveliev, the Russian boy whose American adoptive mother decided that, because of her personal, non-medically-sought-out diagnosis that he had extensive psychological issues, [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] More Weak Sauce from the "Weird News" Section As far as I can tell, we have here a very successful married couple who also happen to be business partners, who got a divorce and split up [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Confused thoughts on gender, libraries and tech | Information Wants To Be Free …it’s the subtle sexism that worries me. That’s the stuff that undermines your confidence in yourself. It’s not anything explicit; just the feeling [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/11 WP ComsoonWP Comsoon (from “Coming Soon”) creates a little widget for the sidebar to display the titles of the next scheduled posts of the blog. Simple Author BoxAdds a simple author [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] META-POST: The New Face of Tiger Beatdown We need MORE contributors! MORE writers! And I have the sneaking suspicion that at least some of them could be YOU! How John Scalzi invented fanfic If your eyes [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Don’t Touch That Dial — Lessons Web Designers Can Learn From Television Broadcasts – Smashing Magazine 50 Beautiful Flash Websites – Smashing Magazine Typography In Motion – Smashing Magazine 20 Beautiful Video Motion Pieces – Smashing [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Q: Don't the Republicans ever get tired of being assholes? "Nominally qualified." Christ. There's a particularly contemptible flavor to that turn of phrase, given that most of the commonly mentioned candidates are women. [BONERS], For Fun [...]