Signal boosting, from siderea: ALERT: FIRESHEEP: Man-in-the-Middle now in Convenient Firefox Plug-In!
And the article on TechCrunch: Firesheep In Wolves' Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily

Signal boosting: Racial Microaggressions.

I know I'm much more aware of equivalents with respect to gender and religion, and will try to be more attentive to such things in general. By all means call me on it ...

Signal-boosting -- thank you, chaointe.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

( Twenty-minute video )

Sunday I saw Never After. It's cute and bouncy. Much of the music is fun; the orchestra was excellent. It pushed at my definition of 'fairy tale' -- I think it isn't quite one, to me, but instead belongs over in whatever one calls the space Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are in ( Read more... )

Stealing a page from cointeach's book, I point out that Ellen Million Graphics will be closing down the gift shop over the few ~6 months. Ms. Million's store has provided me with many charming tshirts, cards, tote bags, and other amusing objects adorned with fantasy or SF art. While she points out that there are now many places for artists to have their ( Read more... )

Shiny thing of the day. Or yesterday, actually.

Long day. Out of brain. Splat now.

On stone posts on either side of a driveway perch a pair of girls in sundresses, each engrossed in an oversized book balanced on her lap. Woe to any so foolish as to distract them from their reading!

(In other silly observations, my shift prefers rolos to dark chocolate kisses.)

A little before 11pm on my way through Davis square, I passed a woman talking on her cell phone, clearly trying to get directions to Johnny D's from whomever she was talking to. I and two other women walking by all tried casually to convey "it's that way"; I'm not sure if she didn't notice us or didn't connect it to her question. I then tapped ( Read more... )

I saw the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the T on the way home. I think that beats out the shower stall (with rubber ducky curtains) I saw on Saturday.

As my housemates have already pointed out, the house has been overrun by roofers, and there is much thumping and bumping and shaking, which started not all that long after I tried to go to sleep. This may be far more effective than any of the other dayshifting methods I've tried yet. Today is not going to be fun.