badgerbag has an excellent suggestion (via her Dreamwidth-self):

Here's a good task for anyone not afraid of a little Wikipedia editing.

A search on the phrase "confined to a wheelchair". Let's reduce that from 383 results to 0...

(Technically there should be 1 result left, since this one on disability is describing why "confined to" is not a preferred usage ( Read more... )

As of this morning: There is a major telecommunications outage in the Bay Area of CA: Thousands of people and businesses in parts of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties are without telephone service, both landline and cellular, because of a cut fiber-optic cable, officials said.

No idea when it will be restored (hopefully soon?), but I ( Read more... )

From foxfirefey : LJ in 2009 -- The Grim Purge notes:

Valleywag's original numbers of 20 out of 28 let go, and those citing them, are not accurate. The true numbers I hear are more like 13 let go, 17 kept in total, and 12 let go and 12 kept in SF--in total, around 20% of LJ staff according to their PR correspondents. Always be skeptical of Valleywag.

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The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees - and offered them no severance, we're told.

Source: Valleywag, The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network (1/6/09)

So what happens next?

ETA:  This may be helpful if you're looking to ( Read more... )

f you're interested in Second Life, IRC, and/or issues of identity (with and without disability), you are invited to an online seminar I am co-hosting (with
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The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks


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So gomer43, my lovely adopter-of-all-things-geeky friend.. has convinced me to try using Flock as my browser.  Flock integrates all the social networking sites and feeds that everyone is hip to at the moment -- Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, del.icio.us, etc. And even this here LiveJournal, to which I am posting through the Flock interface. It's not ( Read more... )

Re: Your Brains, by Jonathan Coulton

Heya Tom, it’s Bob from the office down the hall
Good to see you buddy, how’ve you been?
Thing have been OK for me except that I’m a zombie now
I really wish you’d let us in
I think I speak for all of us when I say I understand
Why you folks might hesitate to submit to our demand
But here’s an FYI: you’re all gonna ( Read more... )

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

Oh, you crazy Onion.

Me as a Simpsons character:


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