This article expresses the perspective of one person who gave a child up for adoption and is still suffering from the emotional repercussions of that action.  The main ideas are that the political debates about what to do with unwanted pregnancies don't take into consideration what happens after the choice is made, and there is a lack of support ( Read more... )

Digital media is great, but there's nothing that can replace a printed book.  Don, the author of shackled in bookspace, seems to agree:

Across the Web,
the True Believers decry
the fetish of the codex book.
The Acolytes anticipate
their Rapture which is:
the Death of Print.

Summer.
I lay in cool shade with
my old dogeared copy of
Galactic Patrol
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It's a pretty shallow overview, but there are links to other resources
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-12-29-camera-laws_x.htm

As in porn for folks who drool over archives and info management.  Not porn featuring said folks.  (Though I'd guess the audience overlaps quite a bit.)

http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=233
I heart the LOC.

http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/controversy.htm

Hmmm....  interesting.  And from my perspective, HIV and AIDS as social phenomena have been prey to strange political machinations and magical thinking the whole time.  Why would that have changed?

EDIT:  As
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This site is an exhibit of artworks which inspired legal action to restrict the freedom of expression of the artist in relation to these works.  I'm most familiar with charges of pornography or child pornography; that is not the focus of this site.http://www.tjcenter.org/

http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/

The Spoon Theory (http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/the_spoon_theory) is a really good explanation of how it is to live with a chronic illness or disability.

Someone asked in 
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LOL
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f5c7dc7d1d

Free Round-Trip Ticket To Anywhere Thu, March 29, 2007 - 5:23 AM ( Read more... )