In grade school, starting in first grade, I had to leave when everyone else in the class had to do the reading unit.  Not because I was disruptive - although I was - but that I was disruptive because I was bored and the teacher didn't have the heart to keep tossing me into detention.  We weren't a big enough school to have a program set-up where I ( Read more... )

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Originally posted by heeroluva at Livejournal to do away with subject line in comments
FYI I did not translate this (found it on an anon comm), but I ran the original through Google translate and it's correct.

igrick, dude in charge of lj design, has posted the following today:

New LJ. Step one: comments.

Folks, as the first step of a major design change me and Tyoma ( Read more... )

Spread the signal - SDCC Ignore-A-Thon
Found via ( Read more... )

A lot of my WoW friends are freaking out about this "Real ID" fiasco, and I don't blame them. I have let my account lapse until I decide what I want to do.

For those of you that play WoW, YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED IN REAL ID UNLESS YOU HAVE PARENTAL CONTROLS ENABLED.

To quote from the nicely rational Robin Torres:
To be clear, everyone ( Read more... )

Stolen like a stolen-thing from holy_whatever...

Take This list. Bold the ones you've read. Pass it on.

( If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable... )

Did this over Twitter last night, but figured it was worth a public post here:

Philadelphia will shut libraries, playgrounds and courts by Oct. 2 if the state doesn't grant a tax hike and pension relief.

So, what does this mean? According to the Philadelphia Library website:
* All branch and regional library programs, including ( Read more... )

I can't be eloquent about this. I just can't.

Life grows more interesting by the day for officials of the West Bend (Wis.) Community Memorial Library. After four months of grappling with an evolving challenge to young-adult materials deemed sexually explicit by area residents Ginny and Jim Maziarka, library trustees voted 9-0 June 2 to maintain ( Read more... )

When I was a young wee-thing, Patricia C. Wrede was one of my favorite authors. I still have my paperback copy of Dealing With Dragons that I got from the book fair at school, complete with the star stamp inside the front cover which means I paid for it myself, and not my parents ( Read more... )

Dammit, Handley, you have no idea how much this sets us backOkay, I know why he did it. I do. It was going to be a long, brutal, drawn-out case, and while he would have won eventually, it would have had a huge emotional toll on him and everyone around him ( Read more... )