I think anyone who works with kids, has kids, deals with neuroatypical kids or grownups, likes Mythbusters, or likes robots (or children who like robots) needs to read
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I've been sitting out RaceFail, for a lot of reasons: because I didn't want to speak on behalf of other people, who are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves with eloquence and grace. Because it's not about me, and I didn't want to be one of those would-be helpful people who throws oil on things. Because I don't want to hurt people, and I ( Read more... )

So, audrawilliams found herself watching 27 Dresses on a flight a little while ago, because she wanted to see something with women in it. Anything!

She's asking people to post pictures of women doing Stuff. Dancing, herding chickens, hiking, working, rapping, spinning, anything ( Read more... )

Dear Internets,

For some reason, there seems to be some confusion surrounding the meaning of the word censor (v., tr; also n ( Read more... )

Marinetti and Luna do not count as adult supervision.

But hey, sabotabby and I made a fun new game!
( Just click on the fold to play! )

Most of us have, at one time or another-often when we're packing to move-looked around us and wondered how we got so much stuff. We promise that we'll get rid of some of it, and curb our acquisitional habits. But we don't give our possessions much thought, otherwise.

Then, someone posts an article like this one, and most of us shamefacedly examine ( Read more... )

I'm famous!*

In a really local kinda way.

* As previously noted, any hammers lying around the Eyrie are emphatically not used to smash social constructs, economic systems, brains, or glories of western civilization, including cathedrals, Dresden shepherdesses, or works Alexander Pope. We use our hammers to repair bookcases. Of course.

Okay, I think this is the last interblegging post for the day.

human_loser would very much like to talk with people who are currently or have at some point in their lives been involved in fundamentalist Christian communities and the Christian Rock scene (especially the bands that haven't quite made it big). He's writing a screenplay, and would very much like ( Read more... )

perigee is collecting men's chests, for science.

Explains misia:
For those of you who don't already know, perigee has XXY sex chromosomes, a common genetic anomaly that is often called "Klinefelter's Syndrome ( Read more... )

Shout out to sabotabby (and anyone else who wants to be invited to the hypothetical future-date Editorial-Eyrie Zombie-movie Sleepover): over at Making Light, there is An Efflorescence of Zombies.

Oh, Making Light, how I do love thee.

Enjoy!

ETA: And thread-drift has occurred, in a glorious way. Zombies and copyediting! SQUEE!