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I may need this at some point…

I'm in the middle of building something roughly like this.

It’s a whole lot easier to emotionally manipulate someone who has been conditioned by our society to accept it. We continue to burden women because they don’t refuse our burdens as easily. It’s the ultimate cowardice.

Yes, squids are bisexual. And promiscuous. Keep that in mind when that giant squid attacks your ship. You may have an out, if you're really cute.

A Zombie Infested 5K obstacle course. Protect your brain and run for your life. This is one race where your legs giving out are the least of your problems. Run For Your Lives is a first-of-its-kind event, one part 5K, one part obstacle course, one part escaping the clutches of zombies — and all parts awesome.

Equipped with a pocket watch that was certified by the Greenwich Observatory every week, Ruth Belville sold the time to the clockmakers of London. She performed this duty between the years 1836 and 1840, helping these clockmakers set their products according to the watch, which was set to within a tenth of a second of Greenwich Mean Time. Belville is the subject of a new book.

My friend Chi has a spoken word single up on iTunes; you should check that out. 🙂

Man, is that a big fat list.

Emigre's font catalogs are online

Interesting story about design and bottlecaps

Television influences our culture and mental health. Here are shows that we need to kill like a virus.

This is my favorite home-made TARDIS yet!

This site has quote a few wonder woman shirts in all sizes, not just tiny ones. Their selection for batgirl and batwoman is small, and they don't carry all the sizes I'd like. Also, I think some of their logos for batgirl kinda suck. But I'll probably look here first when I decide to buy shirts.

All true, but the math is particularly funny.

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.

"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.

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.