I ended up winning three offers at help-pakistan.

One thing which I won (well, technically, I didn't have the winning bid, but the offerer let non-winning bidders donate anyway, so effectively I also won!) was to donate to a Rec-a-thon at epic-recs. That was amazingly easy, the process went something like:
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Thing One) This year's bringthehappy fest is live for prompt-filling! Yay! [Browse the prompts, rules, and FAQ for Bring The Happy.] The end date for the fest is 29 Aug.

Thing Two) Have you seen the rules for
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Hallo flist! Have you missed me? I've missed you! Sadly, I am not here to lounge about on the divans of our corner of the internet whilst eating grapes and telling marvelous stories but instead to drop links and immediately run back to the harsh taskmaster that is my to-do list. (Evil to-do lists! Grrrrr!)

Thing One! ( expired auction )

Because if I post this, I can close a bunch of tabs and that will make me feel productive. This was going to be longer and I was going to talk about my opinions on podficcery and the reading thereof and why I consider fic having been read aloud an act of performance and creation, et cetera, et cetera. But then I realised that if I waited to post ( Read more... )

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ETA 2 Aug 2010: If you would like to more easily see the structure of this post (by which I mean: having the cuts not expanded), then [view this post with all the cuts in place (on DW)] or [view this post with all the cuts in place (on LJ)]. End ETA ( Read more... )

Second things first:
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Signal boost via ladycat777. This is modified (formatting & condensing) from the [ original post] by margarks: (begin quotation) My brother-in-law is Jewish and my nephew takes this part of his heritage pretty seriously. He recently did Birthright, where he was able to go to Israel for a week and experience the history and culture there with several other young 20 ( Read more... )

The [Tattúínárdœla saga] is a blog wherein a grad student is going to retell Star Wars as an Icelandic saga in Old Norse (English translations are to follow but will likely lag the Norse a bit).

The [introductory post] is a faux-academic introduction to the volume.

Oh, this is awesome! :) :)

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Ooooofph, it's been a long ... increment of time. I promised myself I would do a reassessment of things after my
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