OUaT: ( spoilers are so aggravated they forgot the cut tag )

Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” using only the 1000 most common words: surprisingly the same. Via upgoer5, which prompts you to explain things the same way xkcd did.

Alaya Johnson, Wicked City: Zephyr Hollis, vampire rights activist and general do-gooder, has some trouble with the mayor in this alternate Roaring Twenties NYC; Prohibition is in full ( Read more... )

It’s OTW membership drive time-supporting the coders and servers that provide the AO3, and Fanlore and Transformative Works & Cultures, and Vidding History, and legal projects like a DMCA exemption for vidders. I love the Archive (and eagerly await the return of tag filters!), and I want to help it grow. I love both counteragent’s and cesperanza’ ( Read more... )

I didn’t know that all of original Elfquest is free online.

Another piece of news to me: the identity of this redshirt who survived the whole TOS episode.

On the fantasy of competition in education: “[A]ll schools will be excellent when they compete. That’s why all those programs on all those channels on your TV dial are excellent, and why ( Read more... )

Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive.” True confessions: I have actually tried this. Does not work.

Dangerous downloads in a couple of ways: 20 banned books, for free.  I make no representation that these works are ( Read more... )