Ooooooooh dear, Amazon is now picking a fight with Disney.

You can fuck with a lot of people, but now you're fucking with Disney? You're taking away Disney fandom and Marvel fandom's ability to order their movies? You're going to take on Captain America's fandom? That... is probably not a good idea.

Warner was one thing. Hatchette was another. ( Read more... )

James Nicoll pointed to this post on Scripting News, wherein the author tells a story about a guy he hired who didn’t do any work, had to be fired, then sued on the basis of discrimination, all back in 1985. The author lays out this gem:

[E]very time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn’t there to ( Read more... )

James Nicoll reports on his blog that Orson Scott Card has declared marriage equality ‘moot’ and asks for ‘tolerance’ from ‘victors’ - oh, and please don’t boycott his movie. Bleeding Cool asks whether it’s enough.

No. It’s not. Honestly, I’m shaking a little with rage. That stinking S.O.B., whose legions and allies both active and advantageous ( Read more... )

So, yeah, the new LJ format showed up today. lol, it's fugly. I don't think it makes things "unusable," like moerlin does, but it is fugly. And a lot higher bandwidth-consuming. Anyway, here's the New Raeg.

Originally posted by moerlin at As of tomorrow, no more subject lines in comments on LJ
I was gonna update this with much happier stuff, but for the past ( Read more... )

...WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? And now your host, Solarbird!

2,000 calorie drinks. That's >33% more food than I eat in a day. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Texas Representative Ralph Hall (R) hates science, and uses porn to kill research funding! Democrats cower in fear and let bill die. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

California has ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

WHY DOES THE EPSON DRIVER INSTALLER FOR THE INTEL VERSION OF THE EPSON SCANNER DRIVER WANT ME TO INSTALL ROSETTA

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

So get this: filkertom's washroom turned out to have a slow rot problem, and the floor sank and almost collapsed. Tom, cleverly, has insurance against water damage! But because the damage didn't occur in a short enough time period(!), the insurance company told him to go fuck himselfSo he's having a big sale! He's funny, go listen to his stuff and buy ( Read more... )

Not many links this time, but they're of quality:

GETCHER GEEK ON: Street-legal Viper Mark II.

Disgraceful: Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report.

I keep not quite getting around to reading this paper on fluid intelligence and working memory, but the abstract looks interesting.

Finnish children's television is really, really odd. ( Read more... )

annathepiper points everybody at save_liz, which is helping denelian with her medical issues and the resulting school clusterfuck, which you can read about here. Also you can read Anna's post about it here, which would probably be good.

Interview with Richard Cleland of the FTC regarding new rules requiring individual bloggers - specifically including unpaid bloggers of any kind - include disclosures with reviews of any sort - books, devices, and so on. Book reviews are the big cranky right now, because it's normal for publishers to send out a bunch of copies of any book for ( Read more... )