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moominmuppetSignal Boost, Chicago area: A friend's 16-year-old missing, and likely headed to Rainbow Gathering in IL
Recent photos of the Pakistan floods and relief effort
HIV-reducing vaginal microbicide stalled without funding
Comic: The science news cycle -- funny/sad/true
Largest ever epigenetics project launched
Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star
The gargoyles grinning down from Lyon's majestic St Jean Cathedral may in recent centuries have lost their power to intimidate sinners, but a new arrival has perturbed some hardliners.
Preterm Awarded Prestigious LEED® Green Building Certification
Clinic is first healthcare facility in the nation to receive LEED for Existing Buildings. (goes to a PDF) -- this is our local clinic, and I'm very proud of them!
Die-Hard Fans Follow Iron Maiden Into the Digital Age
Arizona Republican Recruits Homeless People as “Green Party” Candidates
-- To be clear, it's the intent here that I object to. Frankly, I think our political system would be better for having some people who've experienced homelessness in it.
A farm chemical that caused the worst known outbreak of pesticide poisoning in North America is being phased out. But why did it take so long?
Indian Rape Victims Forced to Undergo “Finger Test” to Gauge Their Sexual History
16 Anti-Gay Extremists in Glenn Beck’s Creepy Christian Army
Obama: Critics Talk About Me “Like a Dog”
Molecular imaging opens up a vast new world for neuroscience
Obama gets mixed report card on transparency
Stanford team's law books help Afghan students
Pro-Life ads capitalize off Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to directly influence elections.
Cleveland: Smile! Cameras in Lakewood won't lead to tickets
Get caught up on queer cinema with our rundown of lesbian-themed films that screened at New York's NewFest Festival, including: We Are the Mods, Eloise's Lover, The Four Faced Liar.
Honoring the death of a civil rights pioneer
Globe Genie: random teleporter for Google Street View
Ali Abdulemam, a blogger in Bahrain and contributor to Global Voices, was arrested this weekend by Bahraini authorities on charges that he spread "false news" on BahrainOnline.org, a top pro-democracy online media outlet in Bahrain.
Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation -- vanity sizing hits men's clothing too.
Facebook’s “stalker” application. -- this sounds like the kind of notifications I have set up on LJ, and have been trying to figure out if I can use on Facebook, so I'm pleased about the technology. I agree with the poster about the problems with misuse of the word "stalking", though.
Fixing Doctor Who – Season Five Edition
s okay for cops to track suspects via GPS without a warrant, VA appeals court rules
Print and fold envelopes lined with Google satellite maps
Cruise ship chaos video
ACLU challenges USA's search and seizure of laptops, gadgets at border
A Morose and Downbeat Woman is My Co-Pilot -- on engineering voices for cars
American Evangelicals Bring Abstinence-Only Sex Ed to China
GOP Donor Busted in Human Trafficking Case
Lawmaker Wants To Cut Funding For "Unnecessary" Epidurals
Teachers Get Chance to Fix Poorer Schools
interesting links from RM
Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor -- Huh. As a total non-drinker, I didn't even realize it wasn't legal to make liquor at home.
The Weird & Colorful World of Fungi -- these are amazing! (there are a bunch of photos down below the illustrations)
Physics lecturer demonstrating by unicycling across class with juggling student on shoulders
HUD Investigates Mortgage Squeeze on Pregnancy
Long-distance relationships and gendered expectations
Reproductive coercion involves a complex interplay of violence, mental abuse, pregnancy and sexual assault -- fortunately, simple front-line intervention can make a difference.
My Friends In the Internet
Two critiques of the Craigslist Adult Services Shut-down:
Hypocritical Legal Crusade Against Craigslist Will Not Solve Violence Against Sex Trafficking Victims
How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags
Is there an instrument in your attic?
Welfare Job Rules Hit Women With Disabilities
'First Run Features' Gives Female Directors the Go
Experts Urge Women To Look Beyond the Pill When Choosing Contraception
Obama Administration To Appeal Ruling on Embryonic Stem Cell Policy
So, About that Teen Sex and Poor Grades Study...
Lacking Health Insurance, More Women Turning to Do-It-Yourself Abortion
The Faux Feminism of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Roadmap addresses LGBT concerns in at least two important ways. First, the guide recommends that hospitals adopt policies that protect a patient from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
In addition, the guide recommends that hospitals broadly define family to “explicitly include any individual that plays a significant role in the patient’s life” regardless of the legal relationship to the patient. Same-sex spouses, domestic partners and significant others would be included in this expanded definition of family, which the guide states should be used in all hospital policies, including those related to visitation and decision-making. -- Good news for me as a queer, good news for me as someone who has created "family" outside of romantic and biological bonds.
"Godfather of Latino Movement" Passes Away (belated linkage)
Female Immigration Detainees Sexually Abused By Staff
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/cheap-airfare-environment
Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem
Parts of New Louisiana Ultrasound Law Blocked
NE Attorney General Accepts Permanent Stay on Abortion Screening Law
KS Official Admonished for Abortion Investigation Misconduct
SC Bill Increases Abortion Waiting Period
Bills Push Access to Technology for Disabled
Fat and Health, A Response -- Excellent, detailed, and filled with links/citations.
Recent photos of the Pakistan floods and relief effort
HIV-reducing vaginal microbicide stalled without funding
Comic: The science news cycle -- funny/sad/true
Largest ever epigenetics project launched
Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star
The gargoyles grinning down from Lyon's majestic St Jean Cathedral may in recent centuries have lost their power to intimidate sinners, but a new arrival has perturbed some hardliners.
Preterm Awarded Prestigious LEED® Green Building Certification
Clinic is first healthcare facility in the nation to receive LEED for Existing Buildings. (goes to a PDF) -- this is our local clinic, and I'm very proud of them!
Die-Hard Fans Follow Iron Maiden Into the Digital Age
Arizona Republican Recruits Homeless People as “Green Party” Candidates
-- To be clear, it's the intent here that I object to. Frankly, I think our political system would be better for having some people who've experienced homelessness in it.
A farm chemical that caused the worst known outbreak of pesticide poisoning in North America is being phased out. But why did it take so long?
Indian Rape Victims Forced to Undergo “Finger Test” to Gauge Their Sexual History
16 Anti-Gay Extremists in Glenn Beck’s Creepy Christian Army
Obama: Critics Talk About Me “Like a Dog”
Molecular imaging opens up a vast new world for neuroscience
Obama gets mixed report card on transparency
Stanford team's law books help Afghan students
Pro-Life ads capitalize off Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to directly influence elections.
Cleveland: Smile! Cameras in Lakewood won't lead to tickets
Get caught up on queer cinema with our rundown of lesbian-themed films that screened at New York's NewFest Festival, including: We Are the Mods, Eloise's Lover, The Four Faced Liar.
Honoring the death of a civil rights pioneer
Globe Genie: random teleporter for Google Street View
Ali Abdulemam, a blogger in Bahrain and contributor to Global Voices, was arrested this weekend by Bahraini authorities on charges that he spread "false news" on BahrainOnline.org, a top pro-democracy online media outlet in Bahrain.
Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation -- vanity sizing hits men's clothing too.
Facebook’s “stalker” application. -- this sounds like the kind of notifications I have set up on LJ, and have been trying to figure out if I can use on Facebook, so I'm pleased about the technology. I agree with the poster about the problems with misuse of the word "stalking", though.
Fixing Doctor Who – Season Five Edition
s okay for cops to track suspects via GPS without a warrant, VA appeals court rules
Print and fold envelopes lined with Google satellite maps
Cruise ship chaos video
ACLU challenges USA's search and seizure of laptops, gadgets at border
A Morose and Downbeat Woman is My Co-Pilot -- on engineering voices for cars
American Evangelicals Bring Abstinence-Only Sex Ed to China
GOP Donor Busted in Human Trafficking Case
Lawmaker Wants To Cut Funding For "Unnecessary" Epidurals
Teachers Get Chance to Fix Poorer Schools
interesting links from RM
Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor -- Huh. As a total non-drinker, I didn't even realize it wasn't legal to make liquor at home.
The Weird & Colorful World of Fungi -- these are amazing! (there are a bunch of photos down below the illustrations)
Physics lecturer demonstrating by unicycling across class with juggling student on shoulders
HUD Investigates Mortgage Squeeze on Pregnancy
Long-distance relationships and gendered expectations
Reproductive coercion involves a complex interplay of violence, mental abuse, pregnancy and sexual assault -- fortunately, simple front-line intervention can make a difference.
My Friends In the Internet
Two critiques of the Craigslist Adult Services Shut-down:
Hypocritical Legal Crusade Against Craigslist Will Not Solve Violence Against Sex Trafficking Victims
How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags
Is there an instrument in your attic?
Welfare Job Rules Hit Women With Disabilities
'First Run Features' Gives Female Directors the Go
Experts Urge Women To Look Beyond the Pill When Choosing Contraception
Obama Administration To Appeal Ruling on Embryonic Stem Cell Policy
So, About that Teen Sex and Poor Grades Study...
Lacking Health Insurance, More Women Turning to Do-It-Yourself Abortion
The Faux Feminism of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Roadmap addresses LGBT concerns in at least two important ways. First, the guide recommends that hospitals adopt policies that protect a patient from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
In addition, the guide recommends that hospitals broadly define family to “explicitly include any individual that plays a significant role in the patient’s life” regardless of the legal relationship to the patient. Same-sex spouses, domestic partners and significant others would be included in this expanded definition of family, which the guide states should be used in all hospital policies, including those related to visitation and decision-making. -- Good news for me as a queer, good news for me as someone who has created "family" outside of romantic and biological bonds.
"Godfather of Latino Movement" Passes Away (belated linkage)
Female Immigration Detainees Sexually Abused By Staff
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/cheap-airfare-environment
Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem
Parts of New Louisiana Ultrasound Law Blocked
NE Attorney General Accepts Permanent Stay on Abortion Screening Law
KS Official Admonished for Abortion Investigation Misconduct
SC Bill Increases Abortion Waiting Period
Bills Push Access to Technology for Disabled
Fat and Health, A Response -- Excellent, detailed, and filled with links/citations.
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Date: 2010-09-08 04:37 am (UTC)That star makes me dizzy.
I'm fine with the gargoyle and in a certain way it makes creepy ironic sense to portray a Muslim as the gargoyle on that site. Politically incorrect, but amusing none the less if you think about it and the relations between the French and the Moors (Almohads) when the building was constructed.
*fumes over stupid supreme court again*
The men's sizes thing doesn't work so well on the upper end because suits are still tailored and the seamstresses and tailors still use tape measures. I know mine say 46" but they have elastic that adds up to 4" more if I want, which is disclosed on the label. I'm pulling at 47" right now, well within the tolerance for the size I purchased. The brand is "Harbor Bay".
Small victories in NE. Sometimes a shitty economy can work in your favor.
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Date: 2010-09-12 01:09 am (UTC)Sadly, it seems to apply to just about all of it these days.
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Date: 2010-09-08 09:51 am (UTC)Wow, that piece lost me with the praise of how well RTD does themes. Season One was erratic, and while the ending was good, the entire Bad Wolf imagery was ultimately meaningless, Season Two actually held together (and was a fascinating picture of a truly screwed up and obesssive relationship between 10 & Rose), but after that RTD's seasons were nonsense. Most of the Donna eps were excellent, but didn't build to anything, Season Three was crap with a meaningless ending, and RTD's last few specials were completely incoherent. Meanwhile, I thought Season Five held together very well indeed and had solid themes, an overall plot that while full of holes (as is true with every Dr. Who plot) actually held together.