Now and again I wonder if I'm missing something very important by ignoring print and television journalism (and, really, everything but NPR). And then a newspaper will publish something like this. I'll save you a click, if you like: it's a random stream of evolutionary psychology "facts" that purport to celebrate Darwin ( Read more... )

Waiting for data migration to finish. I'm sitting at the office listening to a series of songs that all sound like DDR tunes. I miss DDR, but I'm not enthusiastic about housed-up Madonna versions of "American Pie ( Read more... )

This conversation I've been having with dreamalynn about fashion and zombies gave me an idea. Let's all dress up to highlight our so-called "worst" features ( Read more... )

Ah, the men of Fairmount ( Read more... )

US gets served by Rwanda. We should seriously consider bringing it.

Smartypants friends list, is that the first country to have a majority female parliamentary body?

I am bothered by some of the gender-focused rhetoric about Palin. I am also - don't mistake me here - bothered by her ( Read more... )

I work on the 4th floor now, which is officially the number of flights of stairs I am too impatient to climb. So. I take the elevator more often than not.

Invariably I get in the elevator with a couple of guys, end up in the back because they insist I enter first, then have to wait for them to carefully step to the side when we all get to our ( Read more... )

I've been struggling for a couple of weeks to put into words how weird it is to work with all dudes suddenly. Most of them claim to not notice that they're in a room full of dudes, for one [I can understand that - without someone pointing it out, there are many ways I wouldn't notice my own majority/privilegedness.], although I suspect from their ( Read more... )

I hadn't intended to post anything about the whole "Open Source Boob Project" thing that so many of my friendslisters have been talking about cause, honestly, y'all have way stronger opinions on the subject than I do. On both sides. And I don't know - I can imagine a kinder, more utopian form of sexuality where people were simply curious about ( Read more... )

Last week I voted for Clinton. Which I did, honestly, because both she and Obama are decent candidates on many issues I care about, enough that they were essentially even in my mind. And she's female ( Read more... )