November 2011
1 post
Our Words are Our Own
The hard wooden curves of a sailboat frame are beautiful. Ocean surf crashing on a rock beach over thousands of years and grinding those stones down to sand, is beautiful. A fleck of blood hanging on a boys eyelid after a fight, glimmering with the promise that wounds will heal, is beautiful.
None of those things are distinctly feminine or girly. The word beautiful has no gender unless the person...
October 2011
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September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
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July 2011
12 posts
Matthew Lewis, why?
housetohalf:
Interviewer: “If you had a daughter what would you name her? And if you had a son what would you name him?”
Matthew Lewis: “Sarah Trouble Lewis and Max Danger Lewis so they could say stuff like “HA, Danger’s my middle name””
you need someone to birth those children? I can do that. I can really really do that.
I was onto the middle name danger way before Matt Lewis had a chin...
Genesis vs. Katy Perry - “Invisible Gurls”...
No, You The Man Wolfram|Alpha. →
If you cast Avada Kedavra and somebody died,
How much of your mind would be thinking “Shit, I just killed somebody!” and how much would be going “Shit, I’m a wizard!”?
June 2011
8 posts
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The Web is Not Feature Complete
In a recent post Dave Winer posits that browsers are feature complete. The reason, he suggests, that people don’t update is because there just isn’t anything interesting left to add. In one sense he is right. The browser that’s had the most traction recently is Chrome which made a point of taking things away rather than adding them. However, Winer’s piece reads more as a...
The Glass is Half-Full
idrawnintendo:
Tip to Web Publishers:
If something pops up over the content I’m reading I close the page. Period.
May 2011
14 posts
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We are hard, Margaret Atwood →
The things we say are true; it is our crooked aim, our choices turn them criminal.
via vitreous
April 2011
12 posts
vitreous:
crestas:
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A Wrongheaded Approach to Gender Identity →
I’m a staunch practitioner of general apathy towards both sides of this debate. I tend to take the middle ground of “just do what you want and don’t bug me with it” but this gross intolerance and simple wrong headedness makes me want to join the side of the debate that push for a culture of androgyny*. I am male and yet I am quite interested in raising a family, to suggest...
