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We begin with the Republic of Ireland saying "Hell yes!" to the Century of the Fruitbat, with more than 60 percent of the population voting yes on a referendum to approve marriage equality.
The success of EVE Online and its decision to build an advisory council of players that meet in Iceland twice a year to help guide the game.
Library rules, all created for very good reasons in the libraries they are posted in. Forserious, if you see a weird library rule, ask what happened to produce it.
Handy rulesets for various board and card games.
The Dead Pool Band welcomes home legendary musician B.B. King at 90 years of age, who has the distinction of being featured in a Blues Brothers movie.
If you're looking for a film to go see, If one of your criteria is "enough feminism to piss off the MRAs", then your selections are apparently Mad Max: Fury Road and Terminator: Genesys. because, as history points out to us, women are revolutionary. Including all the women in the Mad Max movie doing their own stunt work. But also all these reasons why feminism still matters and needs to be practiced. And, truthfully, masculinity, especially the toxic kind, is less likely to improve the world and more likely to destroy it, Mad Max style. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, though, so trying to keep women away from things that improve their freedom is a fool's errand.
We need more stories about and starring women to win prizes, so that more stories about women and that have women protagonists get published. And they get recommended, too.
In studying severe psychological distress among the United States, women were always more likely to have it, and the uninsured were also more likely to have it. That's not surprising, considering how much women are put in situations that will cause them distress and give them both no solutions and no outlets. And being uninsured is a highly, highly stressful thing, especially if you already have problems that really require insurance to manage without bankruptcy.
The shooting technique of Mad Max: Fury Road also made it easy to edit by keeping the important action to the center of the frame or by getting the eye to follow a natural path to the next point.
Sunbow Productions is taking a look at the Delphic Maxims, one at a time, starting with commentary about their possible origins.
There's new Sandman, an overture that comes before the main series - Neil looking back on the whole thing and marveling how it got done.
Now that the media has been given enough examples that they cannot ignore, the true depth and breadth of reality in regards to young black men versus white people with guns is beginning to sink in...or more examples are starting to fund coverage, anyway. Monroe Bird was shot by the security guard for his home complex, who had marijuana on his person, for being a young black man where he "didn't belong" with his white girlfriend, although the official reasons are the more standard litany of lies and blaming the black man that are the first defense any time someone reports on the phenomenon. Monroe Bird is now a quadriplegic, but his insurance denied all of his claims for care because the district attorney blamed Monroe for getting shot rather than prosecuting the man that shot him.
David Duchovny put on a music show in New York City, and Gillian Anderson stopped by to sing with him for the encore. Elsewhere, Sarah Michelle Gellar stopped by a party thrown by Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof, and good pictures were had by both.
Hayley Atwell apparently improvised the part where Agent Carter reaches out and touches the new Captain America after the Super Soldier treatment produces his new body.
If they didn't tell you, you wouldn't know that the men in this article went through a transition. One of them is even a cover model. Caitlyn Jenner revealed herself in the July issue of Vanity Fair, the completion of the transition from Bruce Jenner, and she looks good. Did we also mention that there is currently a trans man leading the vote to be the cover man for the November issue of Men's Health? It would be really neat if this were the generation where all the barriers about gender identity and sexual attraction came down and everybody just got to be themselves and live whomever, however many, they want or are attracted to.
A museum in Spain is encouraging touching of the artwork in an exhibit designed explicitly for the blind, and providing blindfolds for the sighted so that they may also experience the art the same way.
Seanan McGuire on the virtue of kindness, especially in the field of writers. Some hopefully heartening advice that many in creative professions are really just making it up as they go along. But also some advice on how to prevent characters from collapsing into one dimension when faced with a giant threat, the necessity of correct setting when writing middle grade or young adult fiction, the part where queer teens still need stories, and not the kind that would be After School Specials, and advice on getting into the translation industry from those who are already there.
Oh, also, it's not just you. It never is.
Popular short story names. Although the most popular one is only used 18 times in 500K entries, so not too bad at all.
If you think people choose not to eat the way you do, dress the way you do, or have a fixed living place like you do, you're exhibiting classism. Because most people in those situations are there because someone else put them there, or because the RNG hates them more than it does you. Not because they thought they would make self-destructive choices deliberately.
Here in the States, we often substitute "fitness" for "faith", and the fad diets and exercise crazes of this and other years are the symptoms of our religious zeal. Which means all the rules about not forcing your religion on other people, especially those with more experience than you, apply.
A call for recipes from people in all walks of fandom, to come together and make a cookbook.
If your religion places more importance on protecting the group than on loudly and definitively condemning molestation in the group, your religion must adjust or it will die. For no amount of proselytizing will be able to protect you from the repercussions of being a religion of child molesters. And if you also subscribe to a religion that promotes views that are increasingly less likely to be healthy for someone, your religion is also likely to be forced into the choice of adapting or dying.
Better and more precise terminology: it is not an abusive relationship, instead, someone has an abusive partner.
It's time to stop blaming the younger generation for problems that the generations before have created, and to stop demonizing the fact that the younger generation is using things that look like fun to do and find their work. And also building structures designed to mirror the comforts of a home for those who work away from it for long periods of time. It's the logical antithesis to the capsule hotel for crashing.
Reworking your elevator speech so that you land with an emotional impact may make you more memorable.
Before getting a reduction for health reasons, a nude photo shoot as a reminder of what was.
If you see someone as a person and worthy of respect, use their pronouns. If not, don't be surprised if you don't see them all that much any more.
The United States Internal Revenue Service admitted that thieves had been able to access sensitive taxpayer data and file fraudulent returns for about 100,000 taxpayers through a third-party service that had been cracked. Significantly disturbing is that to do this, the thieves already had to have access to significant amounts of sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers.
The legislature of North Carolina is trying to pass a bill, over the governor's veto, to allow local magistrates to prevent marriage if the magistrate has a sincere religious objection to the marriage.
Perennial presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee said he wanted to be transgender so that he could shower with the women and see them naked.
If you're looking for socks to wear inside that will be comfortable, Japan has long since figured it all out.
Because of legal immunity from being sued, the parents of a victim of the Colorado Dark Knight shooting now owe more than 200000 USD in legal fees to ammunition manufacturers, since there is a law that says those that lose legal cases have to pay the winners' legal bills.
ISIS is both looting and destroying priceless art and artifacts in Syria. And then others are rebuilding the artifacts using 3D printing and modeling.
FIFA officials across the organization were indicted in a racketeering conspiracy.
Former United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert was arraigned on charges of covering up previous wrongdoing and lying to the federal authorities about the payoffs.
In technology, Daimler had built a system that allows a tractor trailer truck to drive itself on the highways, the first step toward building trucks that will be able to handle much of the tedium of freight shipping themselves.
Very small batteries that can power very small electronics, meaning very small electronics can be in many more places.
It appears that the brain does have lymph corridors close to the blood vessels, which means there may be some new methods to study brain issues and find ways of improving functions or helping the brain clear out the problems.
A list of websites that are useful for specific purposes, including turning off your social media, getting a throwaway email, and figuring out what to make for dinner.
Defeating facial recognition through the use of creative hairstyle and makeup. Which may make you memorable to all the humans around, though. There must be a happy medium that allows for privacy from machines and unremarkability from humans.
A faucet that spins its water into geometric patterns, and manages to use less water than a standard faucet while doing so.
Lab-grown cow tissue is doable at about $80 per kilogram, which is getting quite close to "affordable". There are still some parts to be worked out towards making it a completely pain-free experience for all involved, but within a few decades, it may be possible to do the switch to artificially-grown meats.
Using differing-colored baking pans for different results from the baking. If you want things to brown more, use darker pans.
Last for tonight, cats and their staff in the poses they were in as kittens, parents and kids in nature, portraiture of animals, and animals with butterflies, a squirrel with an umbrella, a moose and her calves cooling off when a kind human turned on their sprinklers, pictures of crystals, putting plants that will survive in your spaces, folk art cut from a single sheet of paper, and artwork that is cubes of unprocessed food, arranged in a grid pattern. Makes me wonder if someone would use it as a "how many of these things can you guess?" sort of game.
Also, the answers to some very important questions about cats, by someone who knows a lot about cats.
The success of EVE Online and its decision to build an advisory council of players that meet in Iceland twice a year to help guide the game.
Library rules, all created for very good reasons in the libraries they are posted in. Forserious, if you see a weird library rule, ask what happened to produce it.
Handy rulesets for various board and card games.
The Dead Pool Band welcomes home legendary musician B.B. King at 90 years of age, who has the distinction of being featured in a Blues Brothers movie.
If you're looking for a film to go see, If one of your criteria is "enough feminism to piss off the MRAs", then your selections are apparently Mad Max: Fury Road and Terminator: Genesys. because, as history points out to us, women are revolutionary. Including all the women in the Mad Max movie doing their own stunt work. But also all these reasons why feminism still matters and needs to be practiced. And, truthfully, masculinity, especially the toxic kind, is less likely to improve the world and more likely to destroy it, Mad Max style. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, though, so trying to keep women away from things that improve their freedom is a fool's errand.
We need more stories about and starring women to win prizes, so that more stories about women and that have women protagonists get published. And they get recommended, too.
In studying severe psychological distress among the United States, women were always more likely to have it, and the uninsured were also more likely to have it. That's not surprising, considering how much women are put in situations that will cause them distress and give them both no solutions and no outlets. And being uninsured is a highly, highly stressful thing, especially if you already have problems that really require insurance to manage without bankruptcy.
The shooting technique of Mad Max: Fury Road also made it easy to edit by keeping the important action to the center of the frame or by getting the eye to follow a natural path to the next point.
Sunbow Productions is taking a look at the Delphic Maxims, one at a time, starting with commentary about their possible origins.
There's new Sandman, an overture that comes before the main series - Neil looking back on the whole thing and marveling how it got done.
Now that the media has been given enough examples that they cannot ignore, the true depth and breadth of reality in regards to young black men versus white people with guns is beginning to sink in...or more examples are starting to fund coverage, anyway. Monroe Bird was shot by the security guard for his home complex, who had marijuana on his person, for being a young black man where he "didn't belong" with his white girlfriend, although the official reasons are the more standard litany of lies and blaming the black man that are the first defense any time someone reports on the phenomenon. Monroe Bird is now a quadriplegic, but his insurance denied all of his claims for care because the district attorney blamed Monroe for getting shot rather than prosecuting the man that shot him.
David Duchovny put on a music show in New York City, and Gillian Anderson stopped by to sing with him for the encore. Elsewhere, Sarah Michelle Gellar stopped by a party thrown by Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof, and good pictures were had by both.
Hayley Atwell apparently improvised the part where Agent Carter reaches out and touches the new Captain America after the Super Soldier treatment produces his new body.
If they didn't tell you, you wouldn't know that the men in this article went through a transition. One of them is even a cover model. Caitlyn Jenner revealed herself in the July issue of Vanity Fair, the completion of the transition from Bruce Jenner, and she looks good. Did we also mention that there is currently a trans man leading the vote to be the cover man for the November issue of Men's Health? It would be really neat if this were the generation where all the barriers about gender identity and sexual attraction came down and everybody just got to be themselves and live whomever, however many, they want or are attracted to.
A museum in Spain is encouraging touching of the artwork in an exhibit designed explicitly for the blind, and providing blindfolds for the sighted so that they may also experience the art the same way.
Seanan McGuire on the virtue of kindness, especially in the field of writers. Some hopefully heartening advice that many in creative professions are really just making it up as they go along. But also some advice on how to prevent characters from collapsing into one dimension when faced with a giant threat, the necessity of correct setting when writing middle grade or young adult fiction, the part where queer teens still need stories, and not the kind that would be After School Specials, and advice on getting into the translation industry from those who are already there.
Oh, also, it's not just you. It never is.
Popular short story names. Although the most popular one is only used 18 times in 500K entries, so not too bad at all.
If you think people choose not to eat the way you do, dress the way you do, or have a fixed living place like you do, you're exhibiting classism. Because most people in those situations are there because someone else put them there, or because the RNG hates them more than it does you. Not because they thought they would make self-destructive choices deliberately.
Here in the States, we often substitute "fitness" for "faith", and the fad diets and exercise crazes of this and other years are the symptoms of our religious zeal. Which means all the rules about not forcing your religion on other people, especially those with more experience than you, apply.
A call for recipes from people in all walks of fandom, to come together and make a cookbook.
If your religion places more importance on protecting the group than on loudly and definitively condemning molestation in the group, your religion must adjust or it will die. For no amount of proselytizing will be able to protect you from the repercussions of being a religion of child molesters. And if you also subscribe to a religion that promotes views that are increasingly less likely to be healthy for someone, your religion is also likely to be forced into the choice of adapting or dying.
Better and more precise terminology: it is not an abusive relationship, instead, someone has an abusive partner.
It's time to stop blaming the younger generation for problems that the generations before have created, and to stop demonizing the fact that the younger generation is using things that look like fun to do and find their work. And also building structures designed to mirror the comforts of a home for those who work away from it for long periods of time. It's the logical antithesis to the capsule hotel for crashing.
Reworking your elevator speech so that you land with an emotional impact may make you more memorable.
Before getting a reduction for health reasons, a nude photo shoot as a reminder of what was.
If you see someone as a person and worthy of respect, use their pronouns. If not, don't be surprised if you don't see them all that much any more.
The United States Internal Revenue Service admitted that thieves had been able to access sensitive taxpayer data and file fraudulent returns for about 100,000 taxpayers through a third-party service that had been cracked. Significantly disturbing is that to do this, the thieves already had to have access to significant amounts of sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers.
The legislature of North Carolina is trying to pass a bill, over the governor's veto, to allow local magistrates to prevent marriage if the magistrate has a sincere religious objection to the marriage.
Perennial presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee said he wanted to be transgender so that he could shower with the women and see them naked.
If you're looking for socks to wear inside that will be comfortable, Japan has long since figured it all out.
Because of legal immunity from being sued, the parents of a victim of the Colorado Dark Knight shooting now owe more than 200000 USD in legal fees to ammunition manufacturers, since there is a law that says those that lose legal cases have to pay the winners' legal bills.
ISIS is both looting and destroying priceless art and artifacts in Syria. And then others are rebuilding the artifacts using 3D printing and modeling.
FIFA officials across the organization were indicted in a racketeering conspiracy.
Former United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert was arraigned on charges of covering up previous wrongdoing and lying to the federal authorities about the payoffs.
In technology, Daimler had built a system that allows a tractor trailer truck to drive itself on the highways, the first step toward building trucks that will be able to handle much of the tedium of freight shipping themselves.
Very small batteries that can power very small electronics, meaning very small electronics can be in many more places.
It appears that the brain does have lymph corridors close to the blood vessels, which means there may be some new methods to study brain issues and find ways of improving functions or helping the brain clear out the problems.
A list of websites that are useful for specific purposes, including turning off your social media, getting a throwaway email, and figuring out what to make for dinner.
Defeating facial recognition through the use of creative hairstyle and makeup. Which may make you memorable to all the humans around, though. There must be a happy medium that allows for privacy from machines and unremarkability from humans.
A faucet that spins its water into geometric patterns, and manages to use less water than a standard faucet while doing so.
Lab-grown cow tissue is doable at about $80 per kilogram, which is getting quite close to "affordable". There are still some parts to be worked out towards making it a completely pain-free experience for all involved, but within a few decades, it may be possible to do the switch to artificially-grown meats.
Using differing-colored baking pans for different results from the baking. If you want things to brown more, use darker pans.
Last for tonight, cats and their staff in the poses they were in as kittens, parents and kids in nature, portraiture of animals, and animals with butterflies, a squirrel with an umbrella, a moose and her calves cooling off when a kind human turned on their sprinklers, pictures of crystals, putting plants that will survive in your spaces, folk art cut from a single sheet of paper, and artwork that is cubes of unprocessed food, arranged in a grid pattern. Makes me wonder if someone would use it as a "how many of these things can you guess?" sort of game.
Also, the answers to some very important questions about cats, by someone who knows a lot about cats.
