Yet more (non)sense - May-June 02019
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silveradeptGreetings! It's time to start with the news that Botswana is joining the Century of the Fruitbat by decriminalizing gay sex!
The City of New York will honor activists Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who did excellent work at and post-Stonewall. This also means there will be black, trans, and Latina representation in statues intended to show more of the important women of the city. The riot at Stonewall was one in a series of activist responses to police harassment, social discrimination, and a lack of acceptance of queer culture.
Louisiana sets a minimum age for marriage, although as in many other states, it appears to have been more "make sure the pregnant teens are married" rather than any thought toward curbing marriage of those who have not reached the age of majority.
Which came first, the indications that someone could never succeed at femininity, the bullshit standards that ensure that failure, or the decision to stop trying to do the impossible? They're all related to each other, and sometimes, one seems to take the lead, but the others quickly catch up.
It certainly doesn't help that there's a lot of free-floating fatphobia, both internal and external, ready to attack women-looking bodies at any time.
On the same idea, although a different facet, a video talking about what goes into breast implants and the decisions that people make about getting them or not getting them (or getting them bigger, as is this particular case).
The words used to describe women who don't forgive wrongs are used to insist those women are worse for not forgiving than the person who wronged them is for doing the thing. (There's also a very long expose on Max Landis's serial sexual assaults where I suspect this tactic has appeared several times.)
Implicit bias rears in all sorts of ways, including certain pieces being asked to change their focus, their conclusions, or are otherwise killed because of who is writing and who is editing. I suspect that happens more often than not, the pieces themselves are requested to be made into fanfiction of themselves. (Not that I have had this process affect me most recently, not at all.) Trust women is yet again a thing that should be said and done more often than it is.
On the value of small talk as a way of getting to know someone before you find you have a lot to talk about together.
Michael Sheen pointedly tells someone who thinks they're dunking on fic writers to very fuck off. (I agree with this sentiment, not least because the original believes that fic writers are young children, so they're ignorant in several ways.) Further on in the thread, Sheen has a back and forth with someone about the transformative aspects of fanworks, referencing the tradition of midrash, which has the respondents tap into the idea that fanfic is way older than many of its detractors say, as well as R. Rachel Barenblat's article in Transformative Works and Cultures, no 17, from 2014, about the similarities between midrash and fanworks. There's also an excerpt of R. Barenblat's similar work in Religion and Literature from 2012 Andkass talks about how the holes, the gaps, the contradictions, the "mistakes" of a story are there for fans to be transformative with, in the same way that midrash are there to try and explain the same things in Torah.
rydra_wong and niqaeli have an interesting conversation going about the potential hazards of having people who are fannish in the thing that they're also creating canon for in a post with midrash and fanfic resources. There are obviously some fannish conversations that creators and actors are welcome to participate loudly and as openly as they can in, but some of them are...not great about it, and that causes issues with the fen. Some of them are really good at it, but might also need to bow out of certain spaces and conversations because it's not meant for them. And some can participate fully and everything is fine. Where those boundaries are as to what's okay, what's not okay, and the rest are still being drawn in a lot of places. Some of them are things that they're waiting for (Seanan McGuire has said that once there are no more October Daye things to write, she'd going to curl up with a beverage of choice, pop open fanfic sites, and then go diving into what other stories have been written with those characters. Seanan McGuire is also very open about how having written lots of fanfic helped land a professional contract to write.) and some of them are things where places have to be drawn where people who work on the canon are excluded because they'll influence things too much, or they'll get defensive and make things about them in a bad way.
Additionally, a speech given by Michael Sheen about the vision of the NHS and the absolute need for political persons to believe in something and talk about those beliefs.
There's been a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare, a lot of it centered around David Tennant being Crowley in Good Omens and going back into his oeuvre. First off, if your only exposure to Shakespeare has been through school textbooks, hie thee to performances, whether on video or live, and understand that you are entering a space that frequently doesn't give a damn about gender or gender roles, and that there's a lot of lowbrow humor and sex jokes in Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, for example, is full of dirty jokes, starting with the title, and productions that lean into that are going in the right direction!
But people will sitll find things to object to, even though the historical truth of it would be that kissing would be kissing cousins for royalty.
AO3 has become a safe haven for fic writers in China who want to explore officially-forbidden pairings and characters. (Which is as encouraged as it legally can be by at least one of the shows, Guardian.) For AO3, this means spinning up a lot of FAQ and translation work so that people writing can feel supported and like the Archive is for them. And they're doing it. (I would also think they did a quick check to make sure they can display all of the CJK Unicode set.)
Fannish behavior can show you new people that you might fall in love with, or push away people who are otherwise unsuitablle for you because they do not conceive of fandom as an important thing for anyone.
Air New Zealand is dropping a policy it had forbidding uniformed personnel from having visible tattoos, and will now only exclude offensive ones that cannot be covered. Well-overdue change.
The holder of copyright for the Aboriginal flag of Australia is sending cease-and-desists to persons incorpoating that flag into their own work, saying they are reproducing his work without a license. Even though it's basically been adopted as a national symbol, there apparently isn't an easy way to get the copyright registered to the government or to get a perpetual license that the government can sub-license.
Queer shows and queer books for those who want to see themselves represented.
liv on having to teach history so you can have a meaningful discussion about religiously significant ritual. Which says a lot about the education provided in school, but also about what happens when you have a long tradition that doesn't have a culture that teaches you everthing you need to know about that tradition just by living in it.
A dictionary compiled by a missionary to use against Barngarla speakers in Australia is now being used to revive and keep the language alive.
Cookbook creation as resistance against concentration camp settings.
A cafe for a Deaf clientele (and with staff that speak Auslan) opened in Hobart. On the end of the article is a video various parts of a Starbucks training about various American Sign Language words and phrases that someone can use should they have someone who is Deaf and uses ASL wants to order something. I wonder if there's such a thing for library workers somewhere, because being able to at least rudimentarily communicate to someone in their chosen language is a useful thing.
And that includes the Internet, where a significant amount of the World Wide Web is in English, which is great if you can read and write English fluently. If not, there's a much-restricted space for you.
cosmolinguist has posted a guide in three parts on how to read the International Phonetic Alphabet. Part one talks about a chart, whether something is voiced or unvoiced, and the place of the articulation in the mouth. Part two continues the trip through places of articulation, and part three talks about the manner of articulation. Between voicing, place, and manner of articulation, a person can replicate all the sounds in known languages. Some way more easily than others, because those are the sounds of the languages they speak fluently.
Some additional physical requirements in a job description act as a deterrent for people with disabilities to apply, and often times, those physical requirements can be accomodated and aren't really requirements of the job.
The idea of carriages where strangers are encouraged to talk to each other on their commute, which I don't think is going to be great for anyone except the person on that commute that wants to talk to other people. Plus, this seems like the sort of thing that might be used to make people uncomfortable and harrass them about things and then proclaim it was just a function of the chat carriage and they were just curious, y'know?
Women attempting to walk the same way that men do through their spaces tend to collide with the men trying to do the same thing, and then get sworn at by those men for not giving way like those men expected them to do. Which I'm placing next to this piece about the difficulty of obtaining a complete account of gender-nonconformity, trans*-ness, and the many ways that people expressed themselves in the United States "Wild West" for reasons.
Fiber arts site Ravelry banned support of white nationalism and Donald Trump on their site, sparking yet more conversations about the ease (or lack thereof) sites are having about creating the environment they want.
A person is crocheting a blanket where each row is the high temperature for the day, where you'd like to see less of reds and more of blues, but temperatures aren't going that way.
A museum dedicated to at least some of the many yokai and their illustrated forms.
Sesame Street has never been just about letters and numbers, but also about showing a diverse world that gets along with each other, a mission conceived in antiracism efforts brought by Chester Pierce.
Studio Ghibli movies are seeing official releases in China, and posters created for the films are amazing. I especially like the one with the cast all looking at Chihiro.
Jay of Jay and Miles X-plain the X-Men offers storylines for a new reader to jump into the long-running, highly-convoluted timeline of the various X-imprints.
Costume decisions regarding the angels and the demons in the television adaptation of Good Omens, which involve subtle color decisions and specific styles of wanting to be either slightly old-fashioned or trying to be right on the cutting edge.
Anne of Green Gables is getting a Canadian Gaelic translation, Anna Ruadh, which I think id wonderful.
Anthony Mackie, mostly in suits. Creating fairy skulls out of pearls. A project to anthropomorphize the flags of the nations participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games by casting them in various costumes of Japan. And they're all pretty, pretty boys at the same time. (Although, you'll need a working knowledge of reading Japanese to get the most out of it, unless you're just there to look at the pretty boys.) Art in pie crusts. The secondary market for packets of Kool-Aid drink mix. The rise and fall of the proce of vanilla. How food and the rituals of dining can try to reconstruct something that is lost from having to leave the place you think of as home. Tea bags in the shape of aquatic (and some land) creatures. Books for helping children and adults realize that food is delicious and many objections to other cultures' cuisine is -ist in bature. (This makes me miss having a good place nearby for dim sum.) The stories told by studing the patterns of wear of spaces and objects. Fudge and oysters as sumbols of rebellion against Victorian ideas of what women going to college should be doing. Which sounds familiar, even if the object of pearl-clutching has changed over time. A long Twitter thread laying out the reasons why trying to shame poor people for buying junk food backfires horrible. The ubiquity (and not very much known origin) of the Chinese zodiac placemat.
Cease-and-desist letters sent to prevent a pet pig from leaving their yard, bowerbirds helping track climate change effects, otters in Edinburgh, the murmurations of starlings, which could easily be the inspiration for (or evoking nightmares of) The Birds, the town that helps a herpetologist gather data on rattlesnakes by wrangling many of them for him and calling him to check, a Svalbard fox who made an overland journey to Canada,
In technology, the band Radiohead released an 18 hour set of minidisc recordings to Bandcamp for their fans to listen to (for 18 GBP) rather than pay a demanded ransom for the return of the files. All the proceeds will benefit Extinction Rebellion. Rolling Stone magazine cut the 18 hours down to about 30 minutes of required listening, but they're going according to the timestamps and tracking on the hacked releases, rather than the Bandcamp album.
There's a potential new fuel for use in satellites that will be much less hazardous to the humans that try to use it. If it can prove itself in space, then it could be used for plenty of other things that need to work in space as well. (And by "potential new fuel", we mean "the fuel has existed for a while, but we've now gotten to the point where we can have fuel systems that can use it."
A natural gas plant is being close in California because its turbines are not designed to start and stop quickly enough to accommodate the presence of renewable energy on the California grid.
The state of New York has forbidden non-medical exemptions to vaccinations, in the midst of a resurgence of ccommunicable and preventable-by-vaccination diseases.
Using landscaping to slow the speed of water so that it can be absorbed into the local soil rather than rushed along to somewhere else. Which goes along with socks and other mesh intended to collect waste that would otherwise go into local water systems.
Windows 10 no longer makes separate system registry backups, believing that restore points are a better method, but there is a way of re-enabling separate registry backups if you are comfortable editing the registry itself.
Archiving yourself is a daunting task, but nobody else actualyl plans on doing it, so finding something that works for you is paramount. And knowing whether or not a site offers you the ability to archive your content is also important.
A painstakingly exact restoration of an Apollo 15 Mission Operations Control Room is set to open back up to the public in Houston. There are a lot of pictures there, many that look specifically for details of the room.
ThinkGeek is shutting down. Which makes us sad, because it's not the same thing if you get your stuff at a Gamestop instead.
The tricky parts about plastic manufacture that make many plastics that should be recyclable entirely not so much.
Boeing's 737 MAX plane software issues have uncovered the company sought to cut costs by outsourcing code and part development to overseas manufacturers, whcih may have contributed to the factors that produced the failure mode, because when you solicit the lowest bidder for critical systems and then assume whatever they produce will be fine, these sorts of problems happen.
Studying human skeletons shows the changes in lifestyle and diet over generations. This could do with a little less editorializing, but the points beind it are solid (and remind us that bones are more like glass - they do move and change over time, even if it doesn't look like they do.
Last for tonight, an extended trailer of the Final Fantasy VII remake that includes new characters and their looks. The remake has done quite well for itself in terms of looking good, but I think that scrapper Tifa, as demonstrated in this demo, needs to have a more developed muscle profile commensurate with her strength. Tifa's not buff enough. As I saw elsewhere on Twitter, a thing to be wary of is that Barrett still looks and sounds like a stereotype of a black man as perceived by Japanese people watching U.S. popular culture.
OK Soda, an attempt by the Coca-Cola company to market to the cynics what Coca-Cola thought they wanted more of.
The significant differences in whether you have to name a child, and what names are acceptable, and whether names require the gender of the child.
An article that suggests people's ideas about how difficult or easy various magic spells are matches their opinion of how much violation of known physics those spells engage in, and therefore, their conception of how magical worlds look and work are fairly similar to how our nonmagical world does.
And one other thing - if you're stuck on a plot, or just need a good laugh, try out The Newberry Award-Winning Book Plot Generator, taking all the finest parts of books that have won the Newberry Medal since its inception and generating entirely new plots for people to write award bait books with.
The City of New York will honor activists Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who did excellent work at and post-Stonewall. This also means there will be black, trans, and Latina representation in statues intended to show more of the important women of the city. The riot at Stonewall was one in a series of activist responses to police harassment, social discrimination, and a lack of acceptance of queer culture.
Louisiana sets a minimum age for marriage, although as in many other states, it appears to have been more "make sure the pregnant teens are married" rather than any thought toward curbing marriage of those who have not reached the age of majority.
Which came first, the indications that someone could never succeed at femininity, the bullshit standards that ensure that failure, or the decision to stop trying to do the impossible? They're all related to each other, and sometimes, one seems to take the lead, but the others quickly catch up.
It certainly doesn't help that there's a lot of free-floating fatphobia, both internal and external, ready to attack women-looking bodies at any time.
On the same idea, although a different facet, a video talking about what goes into breast implants and the decisions that people make about getting them or not getting them (or getting them bigger, as is this particular case).
The words used to describe women who don't forgive wrongs are used to insist those women are worse for not forgiving than the person who wronged them is for doing the thing. (There's also a very long expose on Max Landis's serial sexual assaults where I suspect this tactic has appeared several times.)
Implicit bias rears in all sorts of ways, including certain pieces being asked to change their focus, their conclusions, or are otherwise killed because of who is writing and who is editing. I suspect that happens more often than not, the pieces themselves are requested to be made into fanfiction of themselves. (Not that I have had this process affect me most recently, not at all.) Trust women is yet again a thing that should be said and done more often than it is.
On the value of small talk as a way of getting to know someone before you find you have a lot to talk about together.
Michael Sheen pointedly tells someone who thinks they're dunking on fic writers to very fuck off. (I agree with this sentiment, not least because the original believes that fic writers are young children, so they're ignorant in several ways.) Further on in the thread, Sheen has a back and forth with someone about the transformative aspects of fanworks, referencing the tradition of midrash, which has the respondents tap into the idea that fanfic is way older than many of its detractors say, as well as R. Rachel Barenblat's article in Transformative Works and Cultures, no 17, from 2014, about the similarities between midrash and fanworks. There's also an excerpt of R. Barenblat's similar work in Religion and Literature from 2012 And
kass talks about how the holes, the gaps, the contradictions, the "mistakes" of a story are there for fans to be transformative with, in the same way that midrash are there to try and explain the same things in Torah.rydra_wong and niqaeli have an interesting conversation going about the potential hazards of having people who are fannish in the thing that they're also creating canon for in a post with midrash and fanfic resources. There are obviously some fannish conversations that creators and actors are welcome to participate loudly and as openly as they can in, but some of them are...not great about it, and that causes issues with the fen. Some of them are really good at it, but might also need to bow out of certain spaces and conversations because it's not meant for them. And some can participate fully and everything is fine. Where those boundaries are as to what's okay, what's not okay, and the rest are still being drawn in a lot of places. Some of them are things that they're waiting for (Seanan McGuire has said that once there are no more October Daye things to write, she'd going to curl up with a beverage of choice, pop open fanfic sites, and then go diving into what other stories have been written with those characters. Seanan McGuire is also very open about how having written lots of fanfic helped land a professional contract to write.) and some of them are things where places have to be drawn where people who work on the canon are excluded because they'll influence things too much, or they'll get defensive and make things about them in a bad way. Additionally, a speech given by Michael Sheen about the vision of the NHS and the absolute need for political persons to believe in something and talk about those beliefs.
There's been a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare, a lot of it centered around David Tennant being Crowley in Good Omens and going back into his oeuvre. First off, if your only exposure to Shakespeare has been through school textbooks, hie thee to performances, whether on video or live, and understand that you are entering a space that frequently doesn't give a damn about gender or gender roles, and that there's a lot of lowbrow humor and sex jokes in Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, for example, is full of dirty jokes, starting with the title, and productions that lean into that are going in the right direction!
But people will sitll find things to object to, even though the historical truth of it would be that kissing would be kissing cousins for royalty.
AO3 has become a safe haven for fic writers in China who want to explore officially-forbidden pairings and characters. (Which is as encouraged as it legally can be by at least one of the shows, Guardian.) For AO3, this means spinning up a lot of FAQ and translation work so that people writing can feel supported and like the Archive is for them. And they're doing it. (I would also think they did a quick check to make sure they can display all of the CJK Unicode set.)
Fannish behavior can show you new people that you might fall in love with, or push away people who are otherwise unsuitablle for you because they do not conceive of fandom as an important thing for anyone.
Air New Zealand is dropping a policy it had forbidding uniformed personnel from having visible tattoos, and will now only exclude offensive ones that cannot be covered. Well-overdue change.
The holder of copyright for the Aboriginal flag of Australia is sending cease-and-desists to persons incorpoating that flag into their own work, saying they are reproducing his work without a license. Even though it's basically been adopted as a national symbol, there apparently isn't an easy way to get the copyright registered to the government or to get a perpetual license that the government can sub-license.
Queer shows and queer books for those who want to see themselves represented.
liv on having to teach history so you can have a meaningful discussion about religiously significant ritual. Which says a lot about the education provided in school, but also about what happens when you have a long tradition that doesn't have a culture that teaches you everthing you need to know about that tradition just by living in it.A dictionary compiled by a missionary to use against Barngarla speakers in Australia is now being used to revive and keep the language alive.
Cookbook creation as resistance against concentration camp settings.
A cafe for a Deaf clientele (and with staff that speak Auslan) opened in Hobart. On the end of the article is a video various parts of a Starbucks training about various American Sign Language words and phrases that someone can use should they have someone who is Deaf and uses ASL wants to order something. I wonder if there's such a thing for library workers somewhere, because being able to at least rudimentarily communicate to someone in their chosen language is a useful thing.
And that includes the Internet, where a significant amount of the World Wide Web is in English, which is great if you can read and write English fluently. If not, there's a much-restricted space for you.
cosmolinguist has posted a guide in three parts on how to read the International Phonetic Alphabet. Part one talks about a chart, whether something is voiced or unvoiced, and the place of the articulation in the mouth. Part two continues the trip through places of articulation, and part three talks about the manner of articulation. Between voicing, place, and manner of articulation, a person can replicate all the sounds in known languages. Some way more easily than others, because those are the sounds of the languages they speak fluently. Some additional physical requirements in a job description act as a deterrent for people with disabilities to apply, and often times, those physical requirements can be accomodated and aren't really requirements of the job.
The idea of carriages where strangers are encouraged to talk to each other on their commute, which I don't think is going to be great for anyone except the person on that commute that wants to talk to other people. Plus, this seems like the sort of thing that might be used to make people uncomfortable and harrass them about things and then proclaim it was just a function of the chat carriage and they were just curious, y'know?
Women attempting to walk the same way that men do through their spaces tend to collide with the men trying to do the same thing, and then get sworn at by those men for not giving way like those men expected them to do. Which I'm placing next to this piece about the difficulty of obtaining a complete account of gender-nonconformity, trans*-ness, and the many ways that people expressed themselves in the United States "Wild West" for reasons.
Fiber arts site Ravelry banned support of white nationalism and Donald Trump on their site, sparking yet more conversations about the ease (or lack thereof) sites are having about creating the environment they want.
A person is crocheting a blanket where each row is the high temperature for the day, where you'd like to see less of reds and more of blues, but temperatures aren't going that way.
A museum dedicated to at least some of the many yokai and their illustrated forms.
Sesame Street has never been just about letters and numbers, but also about showing a diverse world that gets along with each other, a mission conceived in antiracism efforts brought by Chester Pierce.
Studio Ghibli movies are seeing official releases in China, and posters created for the films are amazing. I especially like the one with the cast all looking at Chihiro.
Jay of Jay and Miles X-plain the X-Men offers storylines for a new reader to jump into the long-running, highly-convoluted timeline of the various X-imprints.
Costume decisions regarding the angels and the demons in the television adaptation of Good Omens, which involve subtle color decisions and specific styles of wanting to be either slightly old-fashioned or trying to be right on the cutting edge.
Anne of Green Gables is getting a Canadian Gaelic translation, Anna Ruadh, which I think id wonderful.
Anthony Mackie, mostly in suits. Creating fairy skulls out of pearls. A project to anthropomorphize the flags of the nations participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games by casting them in various costumes of Japan. And they're all pretty, pretty boys at the same time. (Although, you'll need a working knowledge of reading Japanese to get the most out of it, unless you're just there to look at the pretty boys.) Art in pie crusts. The secondary market for packets of Kool-Aid drink mix. The rise and fall of the proce of vanilla. How food and the rituals of dining can try to reconstruct something that is lost from having to leave the place you think of as home. Tea bags in the shape of aquatic (and some land) creatures. Books for helping children and adults realize that food is delicious and many objections to other cultures' cuisine is -ist in bature. (This makes me miss having a good place nearby for dim sum.) The stories told by studing the patterns of wear of spaces and objects. Fudge and oysters as sumbols of rebellion against Victorian ideas of what women going to college should be doing. Which sounds familiar, even if the object of pearl-clutching has changed over time. A long Twitter thread laying out the reasons why trying to shame poor people for buying junk food backfires horrible. The ubiquity (and not very much known origin) of the Chinese zodiac placemat.
Cease-and-desist letters sent to prevent a pet pig from leaving their yard, bowerbirds helping track climate change effects, otters in Edinburgh, the murmurations of starlings, which could easily be the inspiration for (or evoking nightmares of) The Birds, the town that helps a herpetologist gather data on rattlesnakes by wrangling many of them for him and calling him to check, a Svalbard fox who made an overland journey to Canada,
In technology, the band Radiohead released an 18 hour set of minidisc recordings to Bandcamp for their fans to listen to (for 18 GBP) rather than pay a demanded ransom for the return of the files. All the proceeds will benefit Extinction Rebellion. Rolling Stone magazine cut the 18 hours down to about 30 minutes of required listening, but they're going according to the timestamps and tracking on the hacked releases, rather than the Bandcamp album.
There's a potential new fuel for use in satellites that will be much less hazardous to the humans that try to use it. If it can prove itself in space, then it could be used for plenty of other things that need to work in space as well. (And by "potential new fuel", we mean "the fuel has existed for a while, but we've now gotten to the point where we can have fuel systems that can use it."
A natural gas plant is being close in California because its turbines are not designed to start and stop quickly enough to accommodate the presence of renewable energy on the California grid.
The state of New York has forbidden non-medical exemptions to vaccinations, in the midst of a resurgence of ccommunicable and preventable-by-vaccination diseases.
Using landscaping to slow the speed of water so that it can be absorbed into the local soil rather than rushed along to somewhere else. Which goes along with socks and other mesh intended to collect waste that would otherwise go into local water systems.
Windows 10 no longer makes separate system registry backups, believing that restore points are a better method, but there is a way of re-enabling separate registry backups if you are comfortable editing the registry itself.
Archiving yourself is a daunting task, but nobody else actualyl plans on doing it, so finding something that works for you is paramount. And knowing whether or not a site offers you the ability to archive your content is also important.
A painstakingly exact restoration of an Apollo 15 Mission Operations Control Room is set to open back up to the public in Houston. There are a lot of pictures there, many that look specifically for details of the room.
ThinkGeek is shutting down. Which makes us sad, because it's not the same thing if you get your stuff at a Gamestop instead.
The tricky parts about plastic manufacture that make many plastics that should be recyclable entirely not so much.
Boeing's 737 MAX plane software issues have uncovered the company sought to cut costs by outsourcing code and part development to overseas manufacturers, whcih may have contributed to the factors that produced the failure mode, because when you solicit the lowest bidder for critical systems and then assume whatever they produce will be fine, these sorts of problems happen.
Studying human skeletons shows the changes in lifestyle and diet over generations. This could do with a little less editorializing, but the points beind it are solid (and remind us that bones are more like glass - they do move and change over time, even if it doesn't look like they do.
Last for tonight, an extended trailer of the Final Fantasy VII remake that includes new characters and their looks. The remake has done quite well for itself in terms of looking good, but I think that scrapper Tifa, as demonstrated in this demo, needs to have a more developed muscle profile commensurate with her strength. Tifa's not buff enough. As I saw elsewhere on Twitter, a thing to be wary of is that Barrett still looks and sounds like a stereotype of a black man as perceived by Japanese people watching U.S. popular culture.
OK Soda, an attempt by the Coca-Cola company to market to the cynics what Coca-Cola thought they wanted more of.
The significant differences in whether you have to name a child, and what names are acceptable, and whether names require the gender of the child.
An article that suggests people's ideas about how difficult or easy various magic spells are matches their opinion of how much violation of known physics those spells engage in, and therefore, their conception of how magical worlds look and work are fairly similar to how our nonmagical world does.
And one other thing - if you're stuck on a plot, or just need a good laugh, try out The Newberry Award-Winning Book Plot Generator, taking all the finest parts of books that have won the Newberry Medal since its inception and generating entirely new plots for people to write award bait books with.
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Date: 2019-07-03 03:25 pm (UTC)I've passed along the crocheting story and the baby names article.
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Date: 2019-07-03 04:39 pm (UTC)