Whee!

[silveradept]

I made dinner for greyweirdo, hollygrahm and droewyn tonight, and I didn't burn anything down. Although later, testing a toaster, I did manage to toast a Pop-Tart into blackness. It's almost the reverse of absentmindedness - the important bit was good, but the simple part got screwed up. Anyway, bring forth the parade of links.

Banned Books Week starts tomorrow. Do your civic duty and read some of themost challenged books of the past five years.

Proving that public schools are more like prisons than educational facilities, a bill just passed the House that would give school teachers and administrators carte blanche to pat-down students at any time, for any reason. Well, any reason at least nominally related to drugs or weapons, but it's basically any reason at all. This is building on the precedent that the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply in public schools. I'm sorry, inmates. You'll be able to get out eventually.

According to the BBC, torture in Iraq is worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein. Yay for "liberation".

Flickr-powered umbrella. For those occasions where you need a visual accent to your rainfall. Or a montage of photos while you're singing in the rain.

Virtual 'bees' could help a robot see in three dimensions. The technique only has the computer process things in three dimensions that appear to be "interesting" to explorer units, and then to those units who follow the explorers, a 3D rendering could happen nicely.

The Business Bib - a pullover object that makes you look suited in your skivvies. Perfect for the webcamera commuting crowd.

Things that will make you more likable. One could also title this "Things everyone else appears to know, but that you think you don't." It will take work, of course, to make yourself more likable, but you do know how.

I'm off to bed, so that I'm properly rested for the feetball and volleyball games tomorrow. Huzzah for sporting.

Comments

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*bookmarks last link*

And "things that creepy stalker furries who message you wanting you to be their friend because nobody is their freind and everybody hates them need to learn so that they can have actual friends and not somebody they have a business relationship with but pretend it's a friendship" is the proper title of this piece.

I intend to hand the next one of those I see this link.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) Though the quote at the end of the fourth section looks as though it would only make stalkerish behavior worse.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

See my comment in your lj. I have NEVER found it inapropriate to have somebody interested in me, wanting to know about the things I like. It's when you confuse interst in a person AS a person with interest in them as a sex object that I get creepy. I really love it when somebody asks about what I do, and is willing to listen to be babble on about costume making and figure painting. "Care, kindness and compassion" isn't the same as "perverted inquiries into my sex life."