If you've been a) living under a rock, or b) simply occupying a mental space that's not the same as mine, it's possible you might not be aware that this year - February 12th to be precise - is the 200th anniversary of a man called Charles Darwin, who when he was 50 (and thus 150 years ago this year) published a certain book called On the Origin of ( Read more... )

I'm sure you'll forgive relative radio silence recently: two very important women showed up in my life within a week of each other and on top of that there's been end-of-year shenanigans. I do hope you all had a great New Year's Eve and if you had solstice related festivals before then, that they were enjoyable and peaceful and rejuvenated you for ( Read more... )

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Um.

This feature kind of sucks. All it does is open the update page with a link already coded. I recommend people continue to us

- Delicious Glue, combined with the delicious blog rescue tool, for when the Delicious blog feature doesn't work, as it so often doesn't.
- Deepest Sender, which has a 'send to Deepest ( Read more... )

The following contains twittering:

• 10:00 Does anyone know someone who wants a guitar for Christmas? #
• 10:48 incidentally, I'm never more proud of my girlfriend than on election days. #
• 13:43 sorting through old LJ posts and reminded when Heroes was good. Oh, show, what did they do to you? #
• 14:15 SO TENSE about this effing election. I have so much ( Read more... )

The following contains twittering:

• 10:06 And the question for the morning is: why do I have Barry Manilow on my iPod? #
• 10:46 just found out Amazon.co.uk now sell socks, and got a bit lost.*resists* #
• 11:38 I only found out this morning there was a earthquake in Pakistan last week. Thank you, British Press, for getting your priorities straight. #
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The following contains twittering:

• 12:33 is beginning to learn why so many feminists hate evolutionary psychology. #
• 13:45 should probably be relieved LJ is doing it again. *takes cleansing breaths* #
• 13:56 wonders why SUP thought returning to 6A's holiday-crashing ways was a good idea. #
• 14:44 and it's back. #
• 20:29 "10 minutes preparation time" ( Read more... )

Hey, remember back in February? When LJ for once didn't pull a cute and useless design overhaul of the entire site for St. Valentine's, and the site didn't keep crashing every five minutes? And I was all hey, look, SUP have got rid of 6A's nasty habit of doing that horrible design overhaul for American holidays! Isn't it nice when LJ doesn't crash ( Read more... )

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  Delicious Blog Rescue Tool
  
  HOORAY I might have my Del.icio.us Glue working again!
  
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  The Daily Mail: Buffy is destroying Christianity
  
  In a nutshell: the Church represents a powerful patriarchy. Buffy has empowered women. These empowered women are leaving ( Read more... )

snapesbabe makes a very good post about William Sanders of Helix magazine and his blatent racism and consequential arseholish behaviour.

Go read it, I have noting better to say on the subject.

Near the end of the post, though, Jennie says this: So if you see me saying something racist? Or for that matter sexist or hetero-normative, or anything else which ( Read more... )

It makes me sad that Toaster and Mrs Toaster (my gay LJ Rhinos) are no longer on my userpage.