I like watching videos of people doing fabulous things with their bodies. It makes me want to work out, to go outdoors, to eat right, and to get to that point where my own body feels like a machine that craves the kind of maintenance that healthy living affords ( Read more... )

Any ad that features an explicitly transgender character is going to draw attention to some way in which transgender and cisgender people differ -- whether socially, medically, physically or otherwise. This is a minefield. These differences don't apply across the board, and how can cisgender people point them out respectfully? When transgender ( Read more... )

Spain to accept transsexuals into armed forcesThe Spanish ministry of defence has said it will reform legislation to allow transsexuals to serve in the armed forces ( Read more... )

bearsir said that in Chicago, they have anything you could possibly imagine with Obama's face on it.

Well, even more so on Teh Intarwebs.

1. Ojamas

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"... It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, wiling to adopt the occasional ( Read more... )

I've been having a crap couple of days, and I needed to cheer myself up so I could get back into the game. My Powerbook G4 is at the Apple store, getting fixed, with all my music in it, so I went on YouTube, and here's the best of what I found ( Read more... )

Gizmodo just published this cool article called The Truth About The Apple Tax.

I am seriously considering buying a last-gen Macbook Pro to replace my Powerbook G4. I'd get a matte screen instead of the glossy mirror that the new ones come with, I'd get a keyboard I'm used to instead of a new-fangled keypad, and I'd get so much more bang for my

The wireless internet connection in my apartment is not working. I'll need to call Telefonica in the morning.

I suppose having the Interwebs go ker-plooey during the week my laptop is D-E-D isn't such bad timing after all?

1. My Daddy loves me. I know this because he's kept me for something like 4 years now (!) but also because he specifically tells me so, most recently during this laptop fiasco ( Read more... )

My laptop is DEAD. D-E-D, dead. Those of you who know me will recognize this for the massive tragedy that it is ( Read more... )