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1. kennahijja is gauging interest in a "Write-Your-Own-Fic" Fest. See the link for more information!

2. ToneMatrix: I stumbled upon it last night, and it may be the most addicting thing ever. It is both visually aesthetic and aurally pleasing, not to mention quite happiness-inducing!

3. Bernanke and Geithner take in a ballgame: Because, hello, the most ( Read more... )

As the entire political world already knows, Senator Arlen Specter (now D-PA) is going to change his party affiliation. I can't say that this was entirely unexpected: the idea that Specter would change parties has been floated around in the past, with various high-level politicians in the state trying to persuade him to go through with the party ( Read more... )

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Something nifty for your Friday afternoons:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Not only does it provide a crystal clear explanation of the current state of financial markets, it's also just very snazzy indeed.

Signing off, V.M. Bell

Inauguration recap soon, I promise! RL has been a little bit crazy is all.

I was being a bad student during my international development class today and wandered over to Xinhua's website. Xinhua is the official press agency of the People's Republic of China, and I go there to stay vaguely updated on Chinese news and to practise my reading ( Read more... )

BARACK OBAMA WON AND IT WAS LIKE DELIVERANCE FROM ON HIGH BUT ONLY BETTER AND I CRIED AND BAWLED MY WAY THROUGH HIS VICTORY SPEECH AND THEN THE WHOLE OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WAS OUT IN THE STREETS TONIGHT I WALKED AND CHEERED AND WHOOPED MY WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE 1600 PENNSYLVANIA PRESIDENT WITH ALL OF MY FRIENDS BEST NIGHT ( Read more... )

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My roommate and I got up at 5:30 this morning to meet with some folks at the College Democrats in Fake Northern Virginia to do some visibility -- waving signs, reminding passer-bys to vote, polls in VA close at 7pm, the whole routine. I have been up for four hours now and my slate of classes for the day has yet to begin. My brain is ( Read more... )

My mother immigrated to the United States in 1987, where she completed a master's degree at the University of Massachusetts, brought me into existence, and then moved her family of three to Toronto in 1990. During the six and a half years we lived in Canada, she and my father both became Canadian citizens. We moved back to the States in 1996, but ( Read more... )