Fandom is political. Fandom is international. And politics are international: what happens in each country very much tends to follow the "trends." For all these reasons I urge you to read a UK fan's comments below on their upcoming elections. It happens here too. It happens everywhere.Consider what privatizing society - taking away public goods ( Read more... )

Life, work, my dratted dissertation, and everything else* has been keeping me busy. I'm not gafiating, just not often online here lately for more than reading my flist's posts and some news and fics, and commenting. But what else is new? If I have to choose between either posting in my own journal, or talking about whatever my friends are talking ( Read more... )

So I rimed me some Mother Goose filk on the PervySurveyFail (Ogi Pogi, puddin' and pie)

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So ithiliana was asking who impudently dubbed this the PervySurveyFail. *raises hand reluctantly*

Oh, but she liked it! Well... in that case. *is inspired* Also, IZ NOT TL;DR TODAY, JUST BAD RHYME!

Remember Mother Goose and "Georgie-Porgie, pudding and pie"?

I give you: "Pervy Ogi"

PervySurvy, Ogi and Sai ( Read more... )

Ogi, thanks for more evidence of your social immaturity, your sexist bias, your utterly self-absorbed scientific twerpitude:

Apology [Sep. 3rd, 2009|06:24 am ( Read more... )

The list below notes some of the huge issues and challenges posed by online research, in contrast to more traditional social research venues. It's from a working document of the AOIR, Association of Internet Researchers (I'm a member; Ithiliana is; other fans probably are, too ( Read more... )

As fans have noted, even if Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam's survey did not record IPs (which is what they say, and there is no evidence that this is not true), they did use cookies to track each computer's (not users: another problem) responses to the survey. The cookie preserved the link, and thus that computer's (or user's) responses and lets them, for ( Read more... )

Holy cow. Harry Allen, in today's Media Assassin blog, follows up on the Racefaily ad from Old Navy that I posted on two days ago with another one ( Read more... )

OK, breaking a long LJ silence, the reasons for which I won't go into. I'll blame credit bethbethbeth for making me think about those reasons. Not that she asked, or should care. *g* It was just something that came up in the course of another conversation - the reasons I prefer to be on IJ, when I'm online these days at all. Such a pesky nuisance, RL ( Read more... )

Gacked from cordelia_v.

It's probably being single, childless, often stuck with nasty jobs, willing to get things done, yet happy to relax with books, friends and culture that makes me ...

Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard
85%
Will Riker
65%
Chekov
65%
Mr. Sulu
65%
Spock
59%
Geordi LaForge
55%
Worf
50%
Beverly Crusher
50%
Mr. ( Read more... )