This year's recipient for my Untied Way donation was a dark-skinned man in a wheelchair. Poor, black, and disabled... that's a tough row to hoe. I feel for him ( Read more... )

#YesAllWomen and the Continuum of Aggression. Good insight, and a good job of pulling a bunch of the threads together.

I have an account as Torquill on Dreamwidth, and that's where I posted this. You can sign in with OpenID to comment on the original post, or you can go ahead and comment here; either way works.

If you're looking at a scientific field where you really feel you need to know more about what's going on -- say you've discovered that your child has a rare disorder, or you simply want to have an educated opinion on a matter of the day -- this is a decent crash course on how to read and really understand scientific papers. Science reporting can ( Read more... )

For anyone in the SF East Bay, if you are interested in growing tomato plants this year, the Contra Costa Master Gardeners are holding a huge tomato plant sale this upcoming Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10-3 at 2640 Shadelands Dr., Walnut Creek. Plants are $2 each (cash/check only), all of them heirlooms which have been tested in this area ( Read more... )

Raunchy? Yes.
Of questionable taste? Of course.
Attention-grabbing? Absolutely.

It's The Oatmeal, after all.
It's also Very Important.
Tell everyone.

( Animated GIF of cute furry animals... which is not child-safe. )

Ever wished you could spontaneously apparate moving boxes? Then make them disappear again? How about not worrying about the integrity of cardboard? And having an excuse to unpack once you get where you're going to?

If all that sounds good, check out Zippgo. Not free (I know some places you can get free boxes, but then you have to deal with ( Read more... )

This Monday, according to gawkercheck.com:

There was an extremely large disclosure of usernames, e-mail addresses, and lightly-encrypted passwords from Gawker. If you ever created an account at Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Deadspin, io9, or Fleshbot, your information was probably released (over half a million unique e- ( Read more... )

I just got a screaming good deal on flower bulbs tonight, thanks to two sites:

Holland Bulb Farms, featuring 50 daffodil bulbs for about $12 depending on variety, and 100 botanical crocus for $10.49; and
RetailMeNot, an offshoot of BugMeNot which gathers coupon codes for all sorts of online retailers -- I got flat $4.99 shipping for my order and ( Read more... )

One of the kind people at the potluck last night mentioned this, and I looked it up today:

Dan Savage and his partner Terry tell LGBT youth that "It gets better" after high school.They're hoping that YouTube can reach some of the horribly isolated and alienated LGBT kids who don't have community centers, support groups, major gay-friendly cities, ( Read more... )

This is really only of interest to gardeners, but if you are one and you've been told that some of your favorite plants have been dying from the oak root fungus (Armillaria mellea), the foremost question in your mind is "how do I deal with it?" Resistant plants are about the only answer ( Read more... )