Yeesh.

Absolute craziness this morning. I hate the day after a holiday -- no one seems capable of remembering a single password through an extra day off and a big meal. And for some reason my boss approved vacation time for two of our morning people for today. *boggle*

I've been here 3 1/2 hours and taken 76 calls so far. I'm gradually putting together a post of random links, just because it's about what I can do with the amount of time and attention span I currently have.

"The Fence" Bi Women's Zine

This has been going on for a while, but I just noticed that they now accept paypal, which made it easier for me to subscribe (I seem utterly incapable of ever remember to snail mail anything). I've ordered the three back issues, and an annual subscription. I thought other folks might also be interested.

Greetings,

Good news - issue #7 of "The Fence" - a bi women's zine full of
articles, artwork, poetry, assorted musings and lots of other great
stuff - is now available. This issue has been a looooong time coming,
as
the original launch date was to be in February. As many of you know, my
dad passed away that month and as a result I really got behind on
various projects, including the zine.

Anyway, this fantastic 40 page zine features the articles "Why Choose?"
by Susan Tarshis and "A Brief Anthology of My Sexuality" by Blaze
Rafferty, as well as short fiction including "My Atomic Heart" by
Dorriane Emmerton and "Valentine's Day" by Keira Grant. Kythrine
Aisling
rants in "How Not To Get A Woman," Cheryl B. shares a dream about past
lovers' lovers in "Fluid" and Ruth Anthony-Gardners expands language in
"Monomind." There's also poetry by Renee "Vixen" Dragoset, TR Klein,
Barb Crisp and others, as well as fabulous artwork by Tamara Bower, Pam
Sloan, Serena Blossom Appel and more....
( Read more... )

GLBT History on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=glbthistory

This came through on the Bi Activists' list:

GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY LAUNCHES YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Online Videos Feature Sports, AIDS Activism, Pride, Comedy, and Disco


SAN FRANCISCO-The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical
Society is proud to announce the launch of its own YouTube channel, which
will build a growing online archive of historical GLBT video clips
accessible to everyone. The first features are currently up on the channel,
which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/glbthistory


"We are thrilled to dig into the trove of our extensive archive and
netcast historic queer video to the world," said GLBT Historical Society
Executive Director Terence Kissack. "These clips are just the beginning
of a project that goes to the heart of the Historical Society's mission
to preserve and convey our community's stories in accessible and
powerful ways."

( Read more... )

Linkety-linkety-link

Edit: teaotter makes a good point about some memes and security information for accounts.

Culled from my favorites list -- random interesting stuff.

Alternet readers suggest books

Ironweed Films: Progressive film club

Alt Cinema: Queer and Women's independent media

Sugar Pictures documentary films

The Power of Choice: Pro-Choice documentaries

Dover publications -- I loved the kids workbooks and coloring books when I was young

Hesperian Foundation: publishing for community health and empowerment

Links to Wim Delvoye's very cool X-ray stained glass pieces (they make my inner biogeek rejoice)

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Maps

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

IBM Glass-Engine (Phillip Glass, composer)

Easy houseplants and gardening links -- mostly for bec76

Cartoon Skeletons

Alt Science Connection, the network for gay, lesbian and bisexual science professionals and others with an interest in science or nature.

Art of Science Gallery

Writers' summer reading lists

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Colorblind Web Filter (shows what pages would like like to people with various types of colorblindness)

Handy Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror bibliography site

Library Thing (online book cataloging)

Kevin Smith's Blog

Religious affiliations of comic book characters

Kim Keever's aquarium landscapes