few things: urbanisation, politics linkies, and Metal Gear.
Allison at Economic Woman is writing about this neato site called Walkscore. You give it your address, it checks its maps and it gives your local area points for how much cool stuff there is within...
View ArticleChristmas The Third
[For your recollection, the first two NWN/gender posts are at Always Christmas And and Still Always Christmas.]It was doing so well up til then.I've been loving the hell out of the NWN2 xpac. Like...
View ArticleChristmas IV [more videogame blogging] & some Christians
So in a new MMO, Age of Conan, female characters are up to 35% less effective than male ones, and this is not mentioned anywhere in the character development process. Why?Short answer: the game...
View ArticleAmericans and their crazy social taboos
I keep meaning to write about Everything That Is Clearly Wrong With This Strange Country, but not doing. I could say I don't know where to begin, but a lot of it dispirits as well as confuses me, and...
View Articleon dickwads:
I'm a bit late on this one, but Ren and Belle are spreading word about Kyle Payne, who is a blogger - a man who both blogs and does IRL conference stuff against pornography - who has pleaded guilty to...
View Articlethat one non-post about Wimbledon
Sometimes when you're writing blog post drafts, you realise they're just burying other drafts. This one I abandoned due to pure derailment (more on that in a moment), but I think it deserves to...
View Articlea meme of linklove
[something is up with my last post; I can choose between either having it appear on the front page twice (but with the same article address, and the same comments page, appearing both times), or having...
View ArticleDoes Equality Pay Its Bills?
Big question. When you pass by equality trainwrecks on the internets, you sometimes see a blind faith in the free market to solve all our problems. I mean, the free market (which exists, honest) being...
View Articleon presentational devices at your precious non-politicised Olympic Games
Feng Silu, another volunteer, says they have gone through rigid training to achieve perfection. During the training sessions, they have to stand in five to six-inch heels with their jaws tucked in...
View Articlemore about the olympics
I think what really got the goat this time was the story about the switch-up between the two girls for the opening ceremony. Supposedly Lin Miaoke was more attractive than Yan Peiyi, so Lin Miaoke...
View Articleon privacy: a comment I made elsewhere.
[Elsewhere being Alas, specifically. I'd wondered about making a post about the whole Palin circus, leaned towards 'no' simply because I believe that Bristol Palin, though she is breathing for two, is...
View Articlethat campaign finance graph in full:
The Beeb has all the numbers, but the key facts are:a) Obama has raised over twice as much as McCain; $401 million to $171 million. It's very rare for a campaign to lose with such a huge funding...
View Articlea pile of things:
So, Bridge Troll was fired by Cardone Industries UK Ltd for making a blog post that mentioned the company's religious workplace policies, and his atheistic response to same. He's put the whole story on...
View Articlethe divided states.
So. A few months ago I found that my USian family thought it highly socially inappropriate to talk about atheism. There being variety in the family between the devout and the rest of us, one that was...
View ArticleEverything I Just Said, But Better
...was put online by David Wong, like, the day after I posted my version. The complete title of Wong's piece is 6 Brainwashing Techniques They're Using On You Right Now [mildly NSFW] - here are the...
View ArticleFMT: an intriguing new fail.
As I've already said, at great length, I take great exception to the way male sf/f/h writers get so hung up on sex work. And if most or all of the women in their story are sex workers, that's a really...
View Article1s, 0s, Xs, Ys
Drama tiem: truly epic internets delivered by the central clique of Wikipedia. If you want a cosier telling of the story, one of the chief victims of the associated flamewars tells their story...
View Articlegood news for geeks
Jack Thompson has been permanently disbarred from practising law in the state of Florida, and I gather that means he'll have a hard time lawyering anywhere else either. To which the world says: about...
View Articlewhen he said 'rely on' he meant 'totally f*ing ignore'
I want this election to be over. It seems like the far-right limbo bar is dropping by the day; how low can they go, I ask? Did they reach their limit yesterday? No, they did not! How much further? They...
View ArticleFor Every Five Tanks: an election link post
[Or, as one FiveThirtyEight commenter said a couple of days ago, 'We are all Fake Virginians now.']I've been collecting shiny things to share with you all - expect another post soon, because this one...
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