Ravelry: Burton Bear Cowl pattern by Heidi May.

Book Burning Party – Troy Library

The power of trolling. Well played, library.

If You Think Only Poor People Need Welfare, Wait Till You See What Really Rich Folks Do With It.

“Autogenous visual information of the upper body. Top, photographic simulation of what a six-months-pregnant 26-year-old Caucasian female of average weight sees when looking down while standing erect; bottom, same view of Willendorf no. 1”

There is an obvious relationship to be seen between the stylistic attributes of Upper Paleolithic representations of the female body in general and PKG-style images in particular and the structural regularities of form and content contained in those minimal viewpoints needed by a woman to see her own body.

— LeRoy McDermott.

In other words, what if these are sculptures that represent how women saw their own bodies without mirrors?

The Great Language Game.

Naomi Klein – Unifor Founding Convention, September 1st, 2013 – YouTube.

Curious Wanderings of Batman in the American Southwest – My Modern Metropolis.

Free email validation API for web forms ‹ The Mailgun Blog.

No addresses submitted to the service are ever stored on any Mailgun servers. The parser runs completely in memory and no address is persisted after the request is complete.

QUEER LIBIDO.

New Left Project | Articles | Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries. via Jairus.

Powerful: Protestors In Ukraine Use Mirrors To Show Riot Police What They've Become (Photos)/a>. Good magic 🙂

Designer Responds to Chanel Headdress With Not-So-Subtle Look During Runway Show | Fashionista. Walter Van Bierendonck again– I think this dude is actually anti-racist. Cool.

Frida.re. “Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS.”

earth wind map.

explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text.

http://phonopolis.ca/blog/posts/staff-top-ten-lists/

Click that ’hood!.

Open source game for learning geography from open geo data. African countries, indigenous peoples of Alaska, US baseball stadiums. I love it!

BBC News – ‘Memories’ pass between generations.

Manufacturing consent | Focus Online.

Rich Coleman says LNG development is about “generational opportunity”—it’s for his grandchildren. We follow the money.

http://bronaughenterprises.com/theft_map2/

Tobi Hill-Meyer: Autogynophilia pathologizes normal female behavior.

…they were cis women. No one is going to take away their womanhood for feeling sexy about lingerie and slinky dresses. This seems to be something cis women, particularly femmes, do all the time.

The bottom line is that the behavior classified as autogynophilia is normal female behavior. Charles Moser did a small study where he tried applying the criteria for it to cis women and found that 93% of cis women qualify as autogynophiles. So why are trans women subjected to this standard and often stigmatized, punished, or denied access to healthcare if they fit this criteria? And why is there no similar criteria for trans men?

It seems to me this is primarily about exerting the control doctors have over trans people to maintain male control over the sexuality of women.

SOLID UI: Bringing Development Thinking to User Interface Design.

Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA, says data analysts are complaining about excessive surveillance creating too much “white noise”.

Shawn Whitney at rabble.ca makes the case that Stephen Harper and Rob Ford are not being brought down by the left, but by capitalist elites, and looks at how more conservatives (Karen Stintz, Justin Trudeau) are being set up to replace them. “People need to sober up and take a look at who is putting in the knife and why.”

I mean, [Toronto police] released a report that doesn’t demonstrate any proof of illegal activity on the part of Ford. If they had any proof they would have arrested him. This is about destroying Rob Ford while there is still enough lead-time before the next municipal elections to rebuild the right wing on city council.

This is about giving Karen Stintz — who, coincidentally, announced her candidacy last week — a clear shot for the mayoralty. Stintz is also a Tory but one who knows how to work with city capitalists and who saved the transit plan from Rob Ford. And she doesn’t get drunk in public.

Bye bye Ford and Harper: Would their departure have any benefit for Canada’s Left? | rabble.ca.

Because the complicated relationships cannot be simplified, all must be made equally complicated.

This paper is talking about measuring the security of different encryption systems, but surely this applies to other things.