Internet Readalong

* We have an apartment! It is actually in the complex I was turning my nose up at a month-ish ago, it is amazing how much more appealing it is after a tour and also weeks of apartment hunting. The new lease starts up on the 11th and our current lease ends on the 26th, which gives us a nice bumper and also means we have to start packing, like, now.

* Almost, almost done with a finished draft of my LGBTFest fic - the goal is to have it done and out to beta by Saturday. Which means I have to find a beta, hmm. [eyes nepenthe and zanzando]

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* More on the Gulf oil crisis - has a ton of information and links up that I strongly recommend looking through.

* This video - about proper booming techniques and BP complete failure to use them - has been making the rounds. Important bit starts at 1:57.

* On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court ruled that "Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent — which counterintuitively requires them to speak," [Sotomayor, who voted against the measure] said. "At the same time, suspects will be legally presumed to have waived their rights even if they have given no clear expression of their intent to do so." Yes. You must now explicitly invoke your right to remain silent - if you don't (if you, say, choose to physically remain silent), the police can assume you've waived that right and "can keep shooting questions at a suspect who refuses to talk as long as they want in hopes that the person will crack and give them some information."

* Mary Anne Mohanraj, Guest of Honor at Wiscon 34, has her speech up on her website:

Because here is one truth I know --

The world is in terrible danger. You have been chosen, you are needed, you are each and every one of you the only one who can save it, if you will just be brave enough. And it will be hard. But heroism isn't about not being afraid. It is about being afraid, and doing the work anyway. Fighting for what you know is right. And I promise you this -- for every time you stand up for the cause you believe in, every time you break down one of the walls of fear to speak out, you will emerge stronger and braver on the other side. I found it incredibly inspiring. [stalks site until video goes up]