Copper got cancelled about a month ago. I wrote a protest letter and so far have forgotten to send it because I'm so busy. Now that I've remembered, this is the transcription:

( Copper protest letter transcription )

Thinking about food typically makes me almost sick to my stomach and honestly, stories like this about someone hanging on to the edge, don't help that feeling in the slightest. But I think it's important that I realise just how dark things can get. I'm much, much closer to having this happen than anything 'good', and I always will be, and I can't ( Read more... )

Yes, the US is archiving the outside of your mail... including your name, your address, the receiver... and you can top if off with that, with a warrant (like those matter anymore) they can open your fucking mail. Welcome to the USSA.

Are you hiding anything? Well, you can't. There's nowhere to hide.

Somebody on RPGnet posted, in honor of the Voting Rights Act, a Louisiana "literary" test. Holy Fuck this is sadistic. It's more like a puzzle book.

Louisiana "literacy" test"

Boingboing post a fascinating series of photographs about digitizing at the Library of Congress. Gaze upon that 1481 book.

A Russian family who fled from totalitarian persecution in the 1930s remained in the taiga for 40 years, 150 miles away from any human contact. A group of geologists discovered them by chance in 1978, a family of five at that time. They lived an incredibly harsh, challenging life that is hard to comprehend much less describe, and one of the ( Read more... )

I don't know where to start on what I think about this. It's a description of life and business as a Chinese-American woman who moved to China and took a position as a publisher. Being a tightly closed society and system, she has a government censor who analyzes most of the things she writes and publishes ( Read more... )

This PDF is an interesting analysis of the electoral college system in the US. I think it's outdated and useless, but because it stays there and plays a direct part in voting, it kind of fascinates me. It would be really interesting to see it in a 19th century fantasy book.

Electoral College

I remember hearing some things about Marie Colvin, a war reporter killed in Syria earlier this year, when she died. The first part of this profile of her seemed familiar to me, so I might have read part of it. But read the whole thing. It's incredible. She sounds like she was an amazing, complicated woman, and the article really gets across the ( Read more... )

In 1987, a group of scifi writers pondered what 2012 might look like twenty five years in the future. It's fascinating to see where they saw it coming and where they didn't. I think Wolfe's, Pohl's and Williamson's predictions rule the best.

Scifi writers predict what 1987 might have