MQ now has a new multimedia site, MQtv, with video streaming. It's a really nifty site, and they've put interesting stuff on there. The videos are short, interesting, and have very good picture and sound quality ( Read more... )

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands ( Read more... )

I've finished the eighth Anita Blake book, Blue Moon, so I've finished all the ones that draicana had. I'm hoping she'll buy the other three (?) at some point, because if I were to buy them, I'd then need to go back and get the whole series out of a sense of anal-retentiveness completion.

I'm now reading Female Chauvinist Pigs, which I bought on Friday. ( Read more... )

Two interesting ads, found by Boing Boing. Mostly concerned with the flexibility of identity as far as appearance and gender goes, and to some extent race, in the second ad (though not so much sexuality)...

Boing Boing links to both

Jenn's rant on cultural appropriation, original context- reappropriate.com, with comments

Jenn's rant posted in Debunking White, with discussionThis is something I've been thinking about a lot lately - cultural appropriation. I am guilty of if to some extent, and so is practically everyone I know (again, to some extent). Some of this sounds really ( Read more... )

From a book I picked up for a workmate from the hospital's medical library ( Read more... )