Internet Readalong
Mar. 8th, 2010 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexWow, okay, I've been sitting on these links for days. Time to let them be free!
* Y'all know LJ's been pulling more fuckery, right? Seerydra_wong for the deets. [hugs DW close]
* Viathe_future_modernes - Blood's Thicker Than Water: As Thousands Die in the Arizona Desert as a Result of U.S. Border Policy, an Army of Activists Intervenes: The Border Patrol's 2008 raid was not an isolated incident. Since No More Deaths established itself as a presence in Tucson's vibrant social-justice community, it has butted heads with federal authorities annoyed by its work to put water in the desert and assert the human rights of the more than half a million people who cross illegally from Mexico into the United States each year. This is an incredibly important article and I encourage you all to read it soonest.
* The stove of the future is freaking sweet.
*![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ciderpress remembers Michael Foot.
* I've been watching some of Lindsay Ellis', aka Nostalgia Chick, videos on older US pop culture - they're fun (if not particularly deep) and trippy in an intense flashback sort of way (especially the one on My Little Ponies).
* I'm wondering if I should break up with mainstream comics again. On the one hand, there's some really cool stuff scheduled to be coming out of DC this year. On the other hand, they pull shit like this (spoilers!) All. The. Time.odditycollector responds with a wonderful, heartbreaking, slightly spoilerly poem.
* Fromzanzando (I think) - Sex and the Off-Label Use of Our Bodies:
Our mouths weren’t “meant” for us to play the harmonica. Our heads weren’t “meant” for us to display giant novelty foam-rubber cheese wedges and other oversized signals of allegiance to sports teams. Our hands weren’t “meant” for us to type on computer keyboards. (Boy howdy, were they ever not. My recent tendinitis flare-up is evidence enough of that.) And that doesn’t stop anyone from doing these things.
So why should sex be an exception?
* The 'first' bookclub meeting went really well - thanks to everyone who had suggestions for the reading list! We decided that, among other things, we really wanted an online space where anyone who was interested could come and discuss the book of the month. An online space with threaded comments. An online space like... the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
bookaneers.
Said online space is pretty empty right now, I'll let y'all know when we've got it up and running.
* Music!
Just... ignore the video on this one.
(See the original version here)
And, because it's been in my head all damn day:
* Y'all know LJ's been pulling more fuckery, right? See
rydra_wong for the deets. [hugs DW close]* Via
the_future_modernes - Blood's Thicker Than Water: As Thousands Die in the Arizona Desert as a Result of U.S. Border Policy, an Army of Activists Intervenes: The Border Patrol's 2008 raid was not an isolated incident. Since No More Deaths established itself as a presence in Tucson's vibrant social-justice community, it has butted heads with federal authorities annoyed by its work to put water in the desert and assert the human rights of the more than half a million people who cross illegally from Mexico into the United States each year. This is an incredibly important article and I encourage you all to read it soonest.* The stove of the future is freaking sweet.
*
ciderpress remembers Michael Foot.* I've been watching some of Lindsay Ellis', aka Nostalgia Chick, videos on older US pop culture - they're fun (if not particularly deep) and trippy in an intense flashback sort of way (especially the one on My Little Ponies).
* I'm wondering if I should break up with mainstream comics again. On the one hand, there's some really cool stuff scheduled to be coming out of DC this year. On the other hand, they pull shit like this (spoilers!) All. The. Time.
odditycollector responds with a wonderful, heartbreaking, slightly spoilerly poem.* From
zanzando (I think) - Sex and the Off-Label Use of Our Bodies:Our mouths weren’t “meant” for us to play the harmonica. Our heads weren’t “meant” for us to display giant novelty foam-rubber cheese wedges and other oversized signals of allegiance to sports teams. Our hands weren’t “meant” for us to type on computer keyboards. (Boy howdy, were they ever not. My recent tendinitis flare-up is evidence enough of that.) And that doesn’t stop anyone from doing these things.
So why should sex be an exception?
* The 'first' bookclub meeting went really well - thanks to everyone who had suggestions for the reading list! We decided that, among other things, we really wanted an online space where anyone who was interested could come and discuss the book of the month. An online space with threaded comments. An online space like... the
bookaneers.Said online space is pretty empty right now, I'll let y'all know when we've got it up and running.
* Music!
Just... ignore the video on this one.
(See the original version here)
And, because it's been in my head all damn day:
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