I've been up for more or less the last twenty hours (hooray for car alarms at 3:42 am!), and I should have gone to sleep at least a half an hour ago, but someone linked me to Fugitivus (FYI, contains material related to sexual assault) and I've been working my way through the posts there. Right now, I've got a tab open with the collaborative list ( Read more... )

The Bay Area Terrorism Working Group = BATWING.

Seriously. You guys did that? I don't know whether to be appalled or ...

No, sorry. Naming a multi-metropolitan organization after a comic-book vigilante's accessories is awesome in theory, but in practice, I think the implications leave me at "appalled."

(I tried to find an organizational website ( Read more... )

Seriously. Have decades of science fiction taught us nothing?

Strip title: "How It Works."


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Tonight's featured Wikipedia article is on the Oregon State Capitol. And yeah, I know the articles are probably randomly selected, and therefore some really strange stuff gets featured, but this is the first one that's made me really stop and go, why, Wikipedia dudes? Just, why?For anyone who does not understand the level of WTF this choice ( Read more... )

I've spotted two typos in comic books this week.

1) It's been a couple months since I bought Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes, but it wasn't until I pulled it off the shelf for some bedtime reading that I realized that every single chapter title in it is misspelled as "Chatper." This amused the hell out of me ( Read more... )

Link courtesy of sloanesomething:

Warner Bros. has apparently decided that in a wholly male-dominated industry where box office takings are lagging overall, the best way to guard against poor returns is to officially stop considering any script where a woman is in the lead.Like I said to Sloane, I think they're missing the point here. Obviously, the problem isn' ( Read more... )

I know a bunch of the people who read this journal aren't paying any attention to the current LJ fiasco, namely 6A's suspension/deletion of journals and communities due to pretty subjective objections to content. I will say that it got for me harder to ignore when some 6A employees seem determined to cram their feet as far into their mouths as ( Read more... )

I just came back from a late fly-by of the Powell's HP party, and the crowd there was very endearing, but I feel like this needs to get some attention:

"This government has now asserted -- without so much as a by-your-leave from Congress -- its right to take away our houses, cars, savings accounts, the stuff of our lives, on the say-so of the ( Read more... )

From heyiya: eyewitness account of police action at a peaceful LA immigration rights protest.

Long enough goes by without something like this, and I start to think we've moved passed it. Then we're all reminded.