Issues:
xoJane: Fat kids and formerly fat kids are at significant risk of eating disorders, yet are more likely to go undiagnosed and untreated. Something that I only really thought about based on the experience of a friend, but it should seem obvious once you think about it.

Slate.com: How would American media report on the Government shutdown if ( Read more... )

A video in which OK Go (them of the treadmills and Heath Robinson contraptions) play with DOGS and IKEA FURNITURE! (Seriously, everything they use is from IKEA. I worry about the fact I recognised this).

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I have reached a stage of ARGH with my work, so I'm going to post all of the links I have cluttering up my "working" Firefox profile :)

From epi_lj: Hollywood's Racism Exposed ... by Lego. Interesting.

From skibbley: New bisexual IKEA ad airs in Austria. It's amusing... apart from continuing to propagate the "bisexuals are cheaters"/"can't be monogamous" ( Read more... )

I have five or six livejournal entries in my mental queue to post here at some point. This is not one of them. As often happens, I'm buried in mostly-offline life, and A Thing has happened that's stressed me enough to need to post about it NOW ( Read more... )

I have waaay too many tabs open. In an attempt to get rid of some, I'll post the links.

YouTube video: Shonen Knife - "Top O' The World (gay bear version)". Apparently there was a trend last year for bears to post videos of themselves miming to their favourite pop tunes. Most of the videos aren't terribly interesting (on several of them, the guy ( Read more... )

We just got back from Ikea. SIX AND A HALF HOURS!! Plus an hour or so's travelling in either direction, making it eight and a half hours in all.

Still, we have slain the mighty Ikea beast. Achieved all of the furniture on our list except for the doors for the new BESTA and the two bedside tables to go alongside our new beds, which isn't any great ( Read more... )

I currently have 36 tabs open in Opera, which is Too Many, so have a link dump to let me clear them up :)

Web comics:
xkcd cartoon: My Profanity Usage by Cause, link from DoctorOak Alex (I think). Replace "Mario Kart" with "Zelda" and you have me ;)

Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people): An Open Letter to Subway, linked by booklectic. I also want to ( Read more... )

I have been busy uploading & tagging photos from various trips - some almost a year old.

dino Trip 7 - Modern Art in Manchester, 2006-09-22. If any Mancunians could tell me what the saxophones, Moon, bat wings & bees statue is called, or who it's by, or even what street it's on, I'd be most grateful.

Me, alexa_robinson, rowan_leigh, fluffymormegil (friends-only), at BiFest, 2006-09-23 ( Read more... )

Argh. Sometimes I go to Ikea and have a really great time & buy all kinds of cool things I didn't previously know I needed. Other times I go and it's close to the living embodiment of Hell. Guess what it was like today ( Read more... )

Yesterday was very, very bad. Woke up profoundly panicky, took me half an hour of warm boy cuddling to manage to get out of bed at all, stood up and the room lurched abruptly sideways. After staggering to the loo and almost falling over twice on the way, I called two of my students to reschedule. Went back to bed for a couple of hours but only ( Read more... )