Lisa: Well aren't you just a precious little snowflake....

Me: I am not A precious little snowflake, I am THE precious little snowflake. I resent all insinuations that there might be other snowflakes out there that are also precious! I even resent the idea that there might be other snowflakes!

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A fascinating link regarding a great editor.

Crowd-sourced publishing. An interesting idea, though we’ll have to wait and see how it goes.

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For reference, I thought I'd put up the glossary I've created to go along with my Cyberpunk fic. This was created for my own convenience, so I could keep track of the terms I was using. I generally prefer to leave the exact definitions up to the reader's imagination, but some prefer a more concrete example.

( Cyberpunk AU: Glossary )

subsiding_leaf linked me to this review of Yakuza 3 (龍が如く3). A game about Yakuza, reviewed by Yakuza! And lots of spot-on observations about the seedier side of Japan, enough that I was in stitches. I particularly liked this line: "Don't say gaijin. Say gaikokujin. It's more polite. Jake's a gaijin."

TOO FUNNY.

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Megaupload link to Within Temptation's "a Final Dream," as quoted in the previous post.

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A tribute to that essential part of daily life, that beloved Japanese institution, the convenience store! <3

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With thanks to misspaulette.

I furthered my edjamakatin' by reading this article about polls and poll questions, and why poll numbers and how they're reported should never be taken at face value.

And then someone posted this wonderful link to a visual summary of the gay marriage debate, which is rather awesome. And a little depressing. Not as depressing as the bill that might ( Read more... )