Since I apparently got my f-march-madness office pool entry in about 10 minutes after they closed submissions (they must've updated the entry while I was writing my comment), I'm including my choices here. I'm going to mark what I get right and wrong just for fun since I won't be able to win anything through the actual community.

( under a cut since I'm nice like that )

So I just needed somewhere to go WTF for a moment. ( spoilers abound for Doctor Who 6.07 (A Good Man Goes To War) )

While I'm super glad they're airing this series of Doctor Who on BBCA concurrently with the regular BBC, it doesn't change anything for me because we don't have anything beyond basic cable. :-/ So I watched the episode on Sunday instead. First time around, I wasn't particularly impressed. I suppose I'll have to reserve judgement until Day of the ( Read more... )

Because I don't want to spam facebook/twitter/what-have-you, I'm compiling a list o' links here of all the awesome things I've stumbled upon over the last few days. Because you NEED TO KNOW.

Kick-Ass, Made of Win People

• Eddie Izzard running the equivalent of 43 marathons around the circumference of the UK to raise money for Sport Relief. Along the ( Read more... )

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There's a new phrase in town: Amazon rank.

In case you haven't heard, recently Amazon.com (and apparently Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca) has taken to removing the sales rankings for GLBT books, claiming that they fall under the category of "adult" content. This is in spite of the fact that many of the books with rankings removed have no sexual/ ( Read more... )

Here's a quickie to entice you to do your good deed for the day (I'm basically cutting and pasting this from the community I found it in):

For anyone who doesn't whose never heard of it (which would be most of the planet), Children in Need is an annual fundraiser for assorted kid's charities ( Read more... )

There are a few things I forgot to mention yesterday that might put things in perspective in terms of the decisions the owners of the Rescue Mission have made. Their reasoning for charging people to live in the mission are as follows:

1. Because of the hurricane, most of their donor base has been displaced. Therefore, they're in need of funds. ( Read more... )

It's amazing how over the course of the week I've gone from crying every time someone mentions our trip to being able to say "Things were absolutely corrupt and it's amazing how little has been done" in an almost nonchalant tone. I suppose I should tell you all why I was in a bitchtastic mood on Sunday. Let me start off by saying that our group ( Read more... )

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