So by now most of you are probably aware that Orson Scott Card wrote a pretty bad novella about Hamlet's gay dad. It took me a while to find out this was happening, because despite the profound importance that Ender's Game held for me as a teenager, I've been really ambivalent about its quality and about all other things Card for a long time now. I ( Read more... )

First, a link that is sort of wonderful and also sort of awful, via Language Log: XKCD did a survey about what people name different colors and sorted the results by gender differences. While they first found that men and women generally agreed on how to name most colors, then this happened:

Then I decided to calculate the "most masculine" and " ( Read more... )

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite rap song about scanning for minerals in ME2 on the Internet.


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This is astonishingly cool: Google Books is now providing free online access to every page of every issue of Life magazine, with ads and all, from 1936 to 1972. This is the sort of thing I could easily get lost in for days ( Read more... )

First, two links, political in nature, that are kind of awesome:
Zombies to march through Minneapolis in support of single-payer health care
Sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work (no, really, stop rolling your eyes and click this link ( Read more... )

Grosspost: Yesterday kyrryn and ilyeana's FRAKKING CAT threw up in both a) my shoes and b) my ukulele. It was just water both times, but still, a ukulele? What could possess her to think that this was an awesome barfing spot? So I'm doing the responsible thing and giving my ukulele into freeimprov's custody. I did clean it off first, at least ( Read more... )

Apocalypse Blues is 99% done, the remaining 1% being that I need to look over proofs from the manufacturing company and pay them a bunch of money. Then, 2 weeks until the CDs are in my hands and I can start selling them to all of you. Not only is the record done, it's really good. And it's a load off my mind to know that we actually finished on ( Read more... )

Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale

( If you are not up-to-date on Battlestar Galactica 4.5, DO NOT CLICK THIS CUT. Seriously, you will regret it unless you don't mind being spoiled for the best plot from 4.5 yet. If you have, CLICK THIS CUT NOW or you will regret it otherwise. )

By now I'm pretty sure that all of you have heard 238947389789 million entreaties to go and vote if you live in the States, so I won't reiterate that. Except to say that if you are going, go early, because eustacio and I stood in line for an hour to do so today, and that was right as the polls were opening so I can only imagine it will get worse ( Read more... )