I've been doing the no-shampoo thing for about a month.  I cut my hair boyishly short over the summer, and I thought it was a good opportunity to try this method of cleaning my hair with baking soda solution and apple cider vinegar solution.  I was a little apprehensive about the baking soda and used only two teaspoons instead of three teaspoons ( ( Read more... )

First, an example of how our democracy isn't working properly. Reuters: New homes burn faster, but states resist sprinklers NEW YORK (Reuters) - In Scottsdale, Arizona, any new home must come equipped with fire sprinklers, a decades-old rule lauded by fire safety advocates nationwide. But 12 miles away in Phoenix, city officials are not even ( Read more... )

Daily Mail: Orphaned kangaroo and wombat are inseparable friends
Opposites can attract and Anzac a doe-eyed baby kangaroo has become best friends with Peggy, a tiny squint-eyed wombat.

Their unlikely union developed after the pair - both orphans - shared a pouch at the Wildlife Kilmore Rescue Centre in Victoria, Australia.

At just over five months ( Read more... )

I was going to write a post about how The Hunger Games (book, film) is a ripoff of Battle Royale (book, film). But plenty of people have gotten there before me, and as one critic points out, the quality of the later work is a different topic than whether or not it was influenced by the earlier work. This entry was originally posted at http:// ( Read more... )

I'm thinking it's time for me to record my passwords in some safe place, so I don't have to keep resetting the ones I don't use very often.  Does anyone out there use password management software?  KeePass, anyone?  Or maybe some paid software?  What are the advantages over an encrypted spreadsheet file? This entry was originally posted at http:// ( Read more... )

Towards the end of last December,

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Because Ursula Vernon fiction (and Ursula Vernon artwork) is generally pretty cool, IMO, and this piece is no exception.

"Never" This entry was originally posted at http://serenissima.dreamwidth.org/271383.html.

I baked a cake last night. I'd actually put "bake yogurt cake" on my to-do list since a couple weeks ago, because we had a big tub of vanilla yogurt sitting in the fridge from some other yogurt-using recipe a few weeks ago. Yogurt keeps well, and I finally got around to using the rest of it. I followed this recipe, with one difference: instead ( Read more... )

"I entered American Apparel’s “plus-size model” contest as a joke-and won. But I want nothing to do with a company that’s wanted nothing to do with large women until now."
My Big, Fat Photo Spoof

Hmm.

Things like this generally don't appear on my radar, but I happened across it.... I don't entirely understand what the author was trying to accomplish ( Read more... )

There are now eleven varieties of Cheerios on the market, including a multicolored kind that looks like Froot Loops.  General Mills, why do you feel that this one cereal has to be everything?  Why aren't plain and Honey Nut enough? This entry was originally posted at http://serenissima.dreamwidth.org/268670.html.