I had to race to the pet store and got there 90 seconds before they closed! Whew.

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So one of the writers of Modern Family challenged homophobes to watch the show. Heh.

The Mary Sue has some awesome pictures of landscapes carved into old books. Pretty cool.

The Hairpin reviews War Horse, with pictures. This is totally awesome. (And when I ( Read more... )

I found a cool resource today: Identity Blog. Among other things, it gave me this great post about a European student who is walloping Facebook with legal complaints about their privacy problems. Pretty awesome.

Speaking of identity issues, there's some association between Anonymous and OWS, but it's pretty limited.

Awesome: Superhero ( Read more... )

Returned to the gym and did a weight workout tonight. Ouch. But tomorrow will be worse.

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Bill Gurley speculates on why Netflix is separating out the streaming and dvd rental business.

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A quick-and-dirty Linkspam today, I think, as it's a holiday weekend and I suspect many of you are already gone:

Discover reports that creativity is not as well-received as we would like to thinkLawyers will recall that in your first year, you do a big legal research and analysis project; everyone in my year was obligated to research adverse ( Read more... )

Via Geekfeminism: this is a totally awesome comic in which a modern American woman (I assume) attempts to explain western clothing and language to a Sphinx unfamiliar with the issues. It's hilarious and face-palming, by turns ( Read more... )

I was basically off-line for the last five days so today's links may not be new to you.

Bruce Schneier posted the link to this essay on the value of pseudonymity. [T]he forum for public discourse is no longer the town hall, or newspaper, or fliers on the street. It is here on the Internet, and it is happening in communities like this, hosted by ( Read more... )