Internet Readalong + Follow Friday

* rydra_wong has an update on LJ and the affiliate link business: In other words, they will be redirecting your links to slap affiliate codes on them and make money out of them in future. As comments from the reps indicated, the "mistake" this time was that it stripped existing affiliate codes.

* There was some really, really disgusting stuff up at SyFy's bio of Gwen (Merlin). It's since been removed but, still. What the hell where they thinking? such_hights is having a Gwen/Angel picspam party to help counteract the badwrong.

* Glenn Beck is still a pox upon humanity.

* stephiepenguin has a great linkspam up - sometimes i love broken things (feminism).

* Speaking of broken things, have y'all see Queer the (US) Census? They sure are missing a bunch of tickyboxes for an organization who want to "make sure the census counts everyone." I've ordered a sticker and will be fixing the damn thing with a sharpie.

* Two pieces from Ta-Nehisi Coates - Study Finds Median Wealth For Single Black Women at $5 (in short: read the study, not just the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article) and Enhanced Interrogation (in short: holy fuck).

* Today's Cake Wreck is particularly disturbing. [squints at it] Huh. Apparently it's not supposed to look like something from Pompeii.

* Jetpacks! We have officially arrived in the future.

* Chatroulette is no longer quite so anonymous. Creepy everything is creepy.

* You Belong With Me: The queer, super adorable version. This is the version with the male voice (which folks are saying is Taylor Swift with the pitch changed?), you can see the original (same vid, Taylor's actual voice, no cutting out at the end) here.

* Brought to you by the entire internet:

Follow Friday (yay Friday!!):

* glass_icarus: Link roundups, book recs and reviews, fanfic, essays, general awesomeness.

* cimorene: Shoes and badfic headers and books and essays and stuff! Also great ficrecs on delicious. One of my favorite internet people.

* coffeeandink: Fantastic journal with lots of book reviews, tv/movie/manga talk, and meta.

* oddible:'A hybrid music pimping/writing challenge community.' Modded by ciceqi, whose music tastes have shaped mu own for years.


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