Slavery Footprint – Made In A Free World

The Philosophy Of Software | www.furtherfield.org

Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind

No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

Herman Daly | The End of Growth – We Need A Crisis, And A Change of Values | The European Magazine

Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race by Jen Graves – Seattle Features – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper

just basics but kind of nice for the focus on discomfort

Penny Arcade – This Dilapidated Universe

laser-eye surgery / laser eye-surgery…

CBC.ca | Q | Michael K Williams on Q

Dinosaur Comics – September 22nd, 2011 – awesome fun times!

“does anyone else find it depressing that the firefox dev team keeps closing my bug reports”

l’allure garonnire: the critical fashion lover’s (basic) guide to cultural appropriation

Feather accessories: “you can claim you like them simply for their aesthetic appearance, but why do you like this particular aethestic?”

Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker

Lots of nice moments… ‘Once a tendency has been put in place by nature, he writes, it is not essential that each and every expression of it serve survival and reproduction.”… As he says, The evolutionary reasons for altruistic behavior are not necessarily the animals reasons.’

FusionCharts v3 – Stunning Charts in Flash & JavaScript (HTML5) for Web & Enterprise

A useful rape analogy

Talk-o-Meter shows, how much everybody is talking.

There are friends, colleagues or even partners who do not notice it, when they dominate others in a conversation. They just talk too much. A little iPhone app helps. The iPhone is placed between two people having a conversation and learns to separate the two voices. At intervals of 1, 2 or 5 minutes you see different lengths of red and blue bars that show what percentage of time each speaker was talking. Nobody has to be unpleasantly exhorted – from time to time everyone will have a cursory glance at the Talk-o-Meter and adapt if he is talking too much. Gentle biofeedback works.

1: Introduction to The Web Standards Curriculum/Table of Contents – Dev.Opera

Solid beginner resources.

Men Explain Things to Me; Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way | Common Dreams

This is the best mansplaining story ever.

Tiger Beatdown CHRONICLES OF MANSPLAINING: Professor Feminism and the Deleted Comments of Doom

Long sarcastic rant, kind of haha, whatever. Bookmarking for naming this phenomenon: You bitch, I have a Rolls Roycewow. For years my sweetie and I have called this phenomenon Bitch, I was just trying to give you a compliment.”

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #72: The Future Has An Ancient Heart – The Rumpus.net

I want to cross-breed this with Heather’s advice for talking to youth. “You are so god damned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that youll look back in twenty years and howl.”

Are jobs obsolete? – CNN.com

“I am afraid to even ask this, but since when is unemployment really a problem? I understand we all want paychecks — or at least money… But do we all really want jobs? “

Pansexual Pride “Queer Sex Doesn’t Count” And Nine Other Myths Uncovered- And Debunked- at the Harvard “Rethinking Virginity” Conference

Nothing too new here, but this is an awesome virginity myth: “You can only lose it once.”

a life of fragments, “feminists” vs feminists

“Denying these people the title of feminist is denying the history of feminism as a tool of oppression.”

The Bushwalker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Pen and Parchment – The Beautiful Evidence of Medieval Drawings – YouTube

Figure 1. War Deaths, Traumas, and Other Misc. Injuries (two versions)

Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture