May 2011
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My thought process
Hmmm. I’m not too bad for money right now. I could probably afford to get my teeth cleaned, or get some small appliances. And if there’s any left over, maybe I should look into getting one of those e-reader things. Let’s check out Craigslist… OLPC - One Laptop Per Child The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) or the “hundred dollar laptop” (that was their goal, the actual...
May 31st
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May 30th
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finally, a big apple comic con report
omgitsaraptor: Over at The Sartorial Nerd. I talk about sexist bullshit at the con, particularly in the costume contest and the amazing Alitha Martinez, creator of Yume and Ever. You should totes check out her work. She’s amazing and Yume and Ever deserves far more attention than it’s getting.
May 30th
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May 30th
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Framerate Cap
single-multiplayer: Notch has released Framrate Cap, Which is made to help people have a faster time on Minecraft without all the lag! Thanks Notch :D Words Of Notch: The game now times every frame being rendered, and allocates 1000000000/<frame_rate> nanoseconds per frame. If it detects it having spent less than this on any frame, it will spend the remaining time rebuilding chunks. ...
May 30th
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May 30th
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Gave up on Unity
and went back to plain old Gnome, with globalmenu and indicator-applets (with the FUGLY SPACING) in the top panel. I’ve got my Docky back! Between Gnome Do (like Quicksilver or Launchy), Compiz edge-binding for the window switcher (like Exposé on a Mac), and shortcut keys for everything, I really don’t have much use for the Unity launcher. And after years of using a Mac, Docky makes...
May 30th
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Question.
Does anyone write weird alien sex better than Octavia Butler? (Or, at least, as good as?) (I’ve just finished Dawn.)
May 29th
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May 29th
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“Everyone has a time machine. Everyone is a time machine. It’s just that most...”
– How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (via makelovebreaklove)
May 29th
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class rage speaks: Why I'm afraid of budgeting.  →
classragespeaks: […] The “budgeting” procedure I inherited from my parents looked something like this: First, pay for the non-negotiable essentials- housing, utilities, my prescriptions. Then, spend as little as possible on other necessities, like groceries, school supplies, and clothing. Whatever is left is to be squirreled away fearfully, desperately, with the creeping knowledge that after...
May 29th
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May 29th
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“Diversity: I feel we’ve had quite a bit of diversity, especially when you...”
– Shelly Shapiro, editor in charge of Star Wars publishing at DelRey, at a Facebook chat after I told her I would like to see more characters of color and women (including women of color) in Star Wars stories and asked if DelRey would make a commitment to pursue diversity in future Star Wars...
May 29th
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May 28th
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Call for Submissions: The Black Fantastic... →
jhameia: Tales of Space, Romance and Weirdness on the black hand side Submissions thru July 30, 2011; publication date: October 2011 Word length: up to 6,000 words Print edition and online No reprints Theme: Speculative fiction (includes science fiction, fantasy and horro) from, about, and pertaiing to members of the African diaspora Detailed guidelines on website!
May 28th
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May 28th
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brain still not working
In this episode of Stargate: Atlantis, Dr. Weir wakes up in a psychiatric hospital and is told her memory of the past two years is all just craaaaazy! Copious lols on this end…if I could actually lol, rather than lurch around going “blerrrrgh” and mindlessly stuffing carbs and protein and caffeine into my face in a desperate effort to postpone falling over and sleeping for fourteen...
May 26th
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I have relevant and interesting stuff to post, really…when my brain starts working again and I can wake up before noon…
May 24th
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“This, I shall say, this is that carpenter’s or hireling’s son, that...”
– Tertullian, De Spectaculis Mary the Magdalene encountered a man she thought was the gardener when she went to visit the tomb of Jesus (John 20:15): Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’ ...
May 24th
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Looking for Feminist POC for Panel at GeekGirlCon
brinstar: Twitter met with limited success over the past couple weeks, so I’m trying Tumblr. Signal boosts will be much appreciated. :-) The Project I am trying to put together a panel of feminist/womanist people of colour to talk about POC issues in geek media and culture this October at GeekGirlCon in Seattle. This panel would focus on the perspectives and opinions of feminist people of...
May 23rd
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Jeremy Irons, do not sit like that and say...
eldritche: It’s unseemly to have such feelings about a pope, fake though he is.
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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karnythia replied to your link: Tor.com » 2011 Nebula Award Winners Who Fears Death was so awesome, but so different that I wonder if we aren’t seeing some backlash against Nnedi for going against strict genre lines. Snarky: If I wanted to watch fans shoot themselves in the foot because they’re scared of change, whippersnappers, and minorities, I’d still be reading comics....
May 22nd
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Tor.com » 2011 Nebula Award Winners →
Full list, including nominees and links to online work, at the link. Of this year’s Best Novel nominees, all but one were written by women; two are WOC. The winner was Connie Willis’s Blackout/All Clear, which is a little disappointing; I’ve only read the first volume, which was great, but not on par with her other books. Maybe it gets mindblowingly awesome in All Clear?...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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leterel replied to your post: Odo, a Changeling, from DS9: I don’t know anything about that storyline in Doctor Who, but if that character is an alien then it would be possible for them to be related/separated at birth! Founders sent out all those changeling babies all over the place. /nerdalert Sadly, no. They’re clones. That would be a fantastic crossover, though. Can you...
May 22nd
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Odo, a Changeling, from DS9: A Flesh “ganger” from this episode of Doctor Who:
May 22nd
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“Who’s playing my record?”
– Jim discovers his doppelganger has reanimated in Doctor Who 6x05 “The Rebel Flesh”. THEN WHO WAS RECORD?
May 22nd
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trenchesfullofpoets: wildunicornherd: itsfullofstars: Pope makes first video call to astronauts at space station […] Speaking from the Vatican library, Benedict said he admired the astronauts’ courage and commitment and described their mission as “an adventure to discover the origins of humanity.” Keep reading. an adventure to discover the origins of humanity an adventure to discover...
May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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As soon as I get home I'm like
Not only do these new meds make me sweat like a pig, it’s like 25° out there and SUNNY. Has “I hate wearing clothes” season officially started?
May 20th
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May 19th
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It’s a question that countless people, from great thinkers to common folk merely attempting to understand their circumstances, have grappled with for millennia: how can a good and loving God allow Internet Explorer to exist?
May 19th
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May 19th
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I figure that there will be a lot of job openings...
-rosasparks-: This is a sound plan. It may solve our unemployment crisis! Dear God, please take Stephen Harper, kthxbai.
May 19th
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Dustin Nguyen variant cover Gates of Gotham #1
omgitsaraptor: dcwomenkickingass: Beautiful. Dustin Nguyen should be hired to do all the cover art. All of it. For everything. Ever. Two words I never thought I’d use in the same sentence: Steampunk Batman.
May 19th
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Added a title to this post because I was...
criptheatrequeer: After reading this interview with N. K. Jemisin (the first two books of whose Inheritance trilogy I recently read and highly recommend), I was able to add a bunch more SF/F books by black women to my library hold list! One (Nalo Hopkinson) is even Canadian! I try to read books by people with a variety of lived experiences, but a lot of the SF/F I have read is by white people....
May 19th
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Just Another Radical Lefty: ALSO →
criptheatrequeer: This is Jennifer Lawrence: She is, a pale blonde lady with green eyes. (this is a headshot) This is Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, a character described as having olive skin, dark hair, and grey eyes. [she is wearing a dark jacket and has a bow and quiver. Her hair has been died brown and pulled into a braid. The entire thing is on the cover of Entertainment...
May 18th
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Also: yes I know white people can have olive skin...
palaceoffunk: White actors/roles? Are in abundance. POC actors/roles, especially lead ones? Are not. Representation of white folks? Everywhere you open your eyes. Representation of POCs? Squint and you can find a handful as auxillary characters to a majority white leads. Why is it that even when roles should have the possibility of POC actors (The Hunger Games, Akira, The Last Airbender,...
May 18th
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JoBlo.com » Exclusive: Keanu Reeves passes on... →
Early Thursday morning, some time after receiving word from Reeves’ reps that he would be passing on the project, Warner Bros. shut down AKIRA’s pre-viz department and most of the staff that was working on the film was let go. While it may be easy to draw conclusions when you see both events taking place in the same week, I’m told that one has nothing to do with the other....
May 18th
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