Some articles on democracy (pluralist and feminist) among Syrian Kurds: NYTimes, FT, scribd copy of FT.

If we kept DST all year, or got rid of it.

A Madoka fanfic I'm reading. It's like Starship Troopers or Old Man's War crossed with Madoka crossed with transhumanism and Culture ship Minds. Kyubey said we'd go to the stars, and we did. Many fans ( Read more... )

"The Coin", a Haruhi Suzumiya fanfic. It read like one of the novel translations, or better. From Haruhi's POV. I liked it a lot. Seems a lot shorter than the alleged word count ( Read more... )

Guess I'm officially following the Methods of Rationality now. Curse you, Yudkowsky!

I totally understand someone not liking it; I'm not going to go around saying how awesome it is. But my interest has been caught.

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I finally took a stab at Homestuck. I went "ehhh ( Read more... )

Madoka fanfic. Don't even click if you want to avoid spoilers, which you should ( Read more... )

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