2011 – Page 6 – commonplacebook.com

links for 2011-09-08

Post author:HFM
Post published:September 8, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school – The Oatmeal

All true, but the math is particularly funny.

(tags: education cartoons)
Hey, Bioware: Stop Crowdsourcing Your Gender Politics | The Mary Sue

The Mary Sue illustrates how not to do crowdsourcing – don't let people vote on stuff that you should care about getting right internally; some things should not be up for a popular vote, and treating people fairly is one of those things.

(tags: feminism sexism crowdsourcing)
Tiger Beatdown › CHRONICLES OF MANSPLAINING: Professor Feminism and the Deleted Comments of Doom

"Mansplaining isn’t just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners. Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate “facts” about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does. Bonus points if he is explaining how you are wrong about something being sexist!" —- AKA "everything my brothers say", basically. So yeah, I'm familiar with this concept.

(tags: gender feminism language comments)
Tiger Beatdown › Enter Ye Myne Mystic World of Gayng-Raype: What the “R” Stands for in “George R.R. Martin”

A lengthy feminist analysis and very interesting comments discussion of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones – Sady covers a lot of my current dissonance about the series I'm in the midst of re-reading. Spoilers abound, so if you haven't read the series yet, bookmark this to come back to; it's very muc worth reading.

(tags: feminism women sexism books fantasy)

links for 2011-09-07

Post author:HFM
Post published:September 7, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

Fictional Food | Bringing food from page to plate!

Recipes for fictional foods from books, television, movies and comics.

(tags: recipes fiction books movies television)
Fridge Horror – Television Tropes & Idioms

Fridge Horror is, simply put, when something becomes terrifying after the fact. Maybe you thought about this or that plot point a little too hard, and suddenly you realize that everyone was trapped in stasis forever, or that the lovable child will grow up in a world where everyone around her is dead. This can be either intentional or unintentional by the author.

(tags: tvtropes funny)

Super Hero Cape

Post author:HFM
Post published:September 5, 2011
Post category:Books My Knitting Projects My Photos

This is one of my current knitting projects – super hero capes for kids. I’m making at least three and possibly four of them; two red, (for Superman and Supergirl) one blue (Batgirl) and one white with gold trim (oh Mighty Isis), for some small folks I know. I started Saturday and made significant progress on one of them.

links for 2011-09-01

Post author:HFM
Post published:September 1, 2011
Post category:Books Feminism & Women's Issues Recently Read Television Writing

Stupid Game of Thrones Characters – Dorkly Article

If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the Stupid Ned Stark meme. Hilarious as it is, the other idiots get off scot-free. Let’s fix that. (WARNING: SPOILERS)

(tags: GameOfThrones memes funny)
Don't talk down to little girls: Lisa Bloom explains why

Ask them about their brains instead; get them to think differently.

(tags: girls education gender learning)
Women Make Groups Smarter | The Mary Sue

An MIT study that seems to have found that while “there’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members… if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises.” Not because women are smarter, but because women collaborate rather than compete.

(tags: women gender collaboration groupdynamics)
NY Times to YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly | The Mary Sue

Aw, the poor widdle boys don't have anything to read, except for like 80% of all the damned books published. But it's the fault of girls that boys are illiterate. Seriously, guys, it is.

(tags: writing sexism reading literature books)
Finding time – Anne Lamott on Writing

Turn off Twitter, Anne Lamott says. And don’t clean the house. That’s what it takes to create the rich life you deserve. "This is what I say: First of all, no one needs to watch the news every night, unless one is married to the anchor. Otherwise, you are mostly going to learn more than you need to know about where the local fires are, and how rainy it has been: so rainy! That is half an hour, a few days a week, I tell my students. You could commit to writing one page a night, which, over a year, is most of a book."

(tags: writing productivity creativity inspiration)

links for 2011-08-31

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 31, 2011
Post category:Knitting Movies Recently Read Television

Ugly Guy, Hot Wife – Television Tropes & Idioms

Nothing will make me turn the channel faster than this trope.

(tags: movies television tropes misogyny)
Oak | Acne Navy Normandie Mono Crop Off Turtleneck Sweater Oak

Couldn't be too expensive to make; only one arm.

(tags: Sweaters Design Funny)
Twenty Iconic Male Movie Roles In Which Helen Mirren Would Have Ruled : Monkey See : NPR

Given the dearth of good roles for women, it was a good opportunity to consider how many roles written for men would have been, if tweaked appropriately (including, in some cases, the use of a time machine), perfect Helen Mirren vehicles. Let us begin.

(tags: Women Movies Casting)

links for 2011-08-29

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 29, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

Chekhov's Gun – Television Tropes & Idioms

(tags: writing plots television tropes)

links for 2011-08-27

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 27, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

HTML for Babies gets a new generation up to speed on web standards | This is my next…

Get your little web nerd started early.

(tags: html childrenBooks)

links for 2011-08-26

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 26, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

The New Wonder Woman Comic Is a Horror Comic — A Pantsless Horror Comic

Hmmm. In general, I'm not a fan of horror anything – so the jury is out for me. But I'm still going to collect them for awhile just to see.

(tags: WonderWoman DCComics)
Words of war: Understanding military jargon – US news – Military – msnbc.com

Constant Phoenix

(tags: military jargon)

links for 2011-08-25

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 25, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

Indiana stage collapse lawsuits could challenge state's rules on gay marriage | WBEZ

Attorney Kenneth Allen said his clients were recently married in Hawaii, a state that allows same sex civil unions. Beth Urschel was injured in the stage collapse. Her spouse, Tammy VanDam, died from the incident. Allen said the lawsuits address a legal gray area in Indiana. "Tammy was her wife and Beth is entitled to be treated as any spouse should be treated: fairly, equitably and justly under the law," he said Monday. "That's something we intend to challenge because as it stands now, Indiana law does not recognize her as a spouse and we expect to change that."

(tags: gayMarriage Indiana law equaity)

links for 2011-08-24

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 24, 2011
Post category:Recently Read

Noah Stokes – Front End Developer and Other Crap

That is a funny page. And this page aside, his site designs are really nice.

(tags: funny webdev humor)
Aquabarrel.com – Rain Barrels, Downspout Diverters and Filters, Rain Barrel Kits – Aquabarrel(R)

(tags: green sustainability home rainbarrels)