Internet Readalong
Oct. 11th, 2010 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexFirst, two signal boosts:
* Super creepy account of a family being driven out of house by law enforcement/child services conspiracy. Please spread this around, they need all the help they can get.
* Fromrydra_wong - The Scarleteen Blog-A-Thon: On the 15th, Scarleteen is starting a month-long blog-a-thon/blog carnival to encourage people to donate towards their annual operating budget and enable them to expand their services.
And now some links:
* You've all heard of the It Gets Better project at this point, yes?forthwritten has a post up about the program's flaws and there's a lot of good discussion in the comments. Remember, just because Dan Savage is an uber-douche doesn't mean everyone who submitted a video is or that we can't get something useful out of it.
* In the meantime, there are alternatives - check out the Make it Better and We Got Your Back projects, as well ascopperbadge's list of resources. These are mostly US/North American focused - anyone have links to international/worldwide efforts?
* On Good Kids and Total Fucking Assholes by Kate Harding: You know what’s total bullshit? When two legal adults make and distribute a video of two other people engaging in sexual activity, without the knowledge or consent of those two other people, and then everyone falls all over themselves insisting that the first two legal adults are really good kids who would totally never hurt anyone!
* I was going to copy over links fromglass_icarus's latest linkspam, but the list got too long. Head over that way instead!
* viathe_future_modernes - Driving While Brown: Apparently la migra can stop anyone within 100 miles of the U.S. Border, including both coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico.This means anyone in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Houston, among many others, can be stopped. ... No warrant or probable cause is needed for what the government calls a "routine search."
* A Supplement to the Texas US History Textbook: This book is a protest to the Texas Board of Education's US history and social studies textbooks. It is a pro-test in the fullest, truest sense of the word, a testimony that contests the version of history espoused by the Texas Board of Education. In this sense this textbook aims at fidelity to the rich history of democratic protest that makes up American history.
* Mr Data Converter - Haven't tested this yet, but apparently it converts Excel data into one of several web-friendly formats, including HTML, JSON and XML.
* Yaoi and Yuri Manga for GBLTQ Readers
* Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (aka oh, the places Wikipedia will take you.)
In other news, I'm crossing both Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and No Ordinary Family off my currently-watching list - they've both gotten bad very quickly. Switched over to UnderCovers, which is proving much more entertaining.
* Super creepy account of a family being driven out of house by law enforcement/child services conspiracy. Please spread this around, they need all the help they can get.
* From
rydra_wong - The Scarleteen Blog-A-Thon: On the 15th, Scarleteen is starting a month-long blog-a-thon/blog carnival to encourage people to donate towards their annual operating budget and enable them to expand their services.And now some links:
* You've all heard of the It Gets Better project at this point, yes?
forthwritten has a post up about the program's flaws and there's a lot of good discussion in the comments. Remember, just because Dan Savage is an uber-douche doesn't mean everyone who submitted a video is or that we can't get something useful out of it.* In the meantime, there are alternatives - check out the Make it Better and We Got Your Back projects, as well as
copperbadge's list of resources. These are mostly US/North American focused - anyone have links to international/worldwide efforts?* On Good Kids and Total Fucking Assholes by Kate Harding: You know what’s total bullshit? When two legal adults make and distribute a video of two other people engaging in sexual activity, without the knowledge or consent of those two other people, and then everyone falls all over themselves insisting that the first two legal adults are really good kids who would totally never hurt anyone!
* I was going to copy over links from
glass_icarus's latest linkspam, but the list got too long. Head over that way instead!* via
the_future_modernes - Driving While Brown: Apparently la migra can stop anyone within 100 miles of the U.S. Border, including both coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico.This means anyone in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Houston, among many others, can be stopped. ... No warrant or probable cause is needed for what the government calls a "routine search."* A Supplement to the Texas US History Textbook: This book is a protest to the Texas Board of Education's US history and social studies textbooks. It is a pro-test in the fullest, truest sense of the word, a testimony that contests the version of history espoused by the Texas Board of Education. In this sense this textbook aims at fidelity to the rich history of democratic protest that makes up American history.
* Mr Data Converter - Haven't tested this yet, but apparently it converts Excel data into one of several web-friendly formats, including HTML, JSON and XML.
* Yaoi and Yuri Manga for GBLTQ Readers
* Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (aka oh, the places Wikipedia will take you.)
In other news, I'm crossing both Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and No Ordinary Family off my currently-watching list - they've both gotten bad very quickly. Switched over to UnderCovers, which is proving much more entertaining.
