Last week I was worried about rain and flooding. This week, late-December/January type temperatures arrived a little early. One day my Seahawks stocking cap was too warm to keep on during the bus, the next day I was very, very glad that I'd put in the winter lining in the coat that morning, and wishing I had dug the scarf and gloves out of the bottom of the backpack before leaving the house. Weird!
Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:
The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing: Networks Without Networks. This is a really beautiful piece that appears, at first glance, to be about computer nostalgia, and at second, to be about a relationship with an old friend who has passed, but while it covers both of those things, they aren't want it's about. It's definitely worth reading the whole thing.
Intersexuality and God Through the Ages: The idea that intersexed bodies are “birth defects” is perpetuated by a lack of familiarity with intersexuality. But it wasn’t always this way. Name checks for both the greek god Hermophroditus and Hedwig and the Angry Inch...
10 Misconceptions Every Trans Ally Needs to Understand.
Breitbart Issues Best Correction Since Forever.
“It’s symbolic annihilation of history, and it’s done for a purpose. It really enforces white supremacy”: Edward Baptist on the lies we tell about slavery.
Comedy doesn't belong to the a**holes anymore.
My Lesbian Mom Died Terrified of Going to Hell.
Mind-Blowing Fossil Preserves Tiny Horse Carrying Unborn Foal.
View of Comet from Lander During Descent. In case you haven't already seen...
Mars and the Mind of Man: Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke in Cosmic Conversation, 1971.
Pregnant Snake Prepares For Motherhood By Eating Toxic Toads.
How Animals Hacked The Rainbow And Got Stumped On Blue.
Imported Glass in Japanese Tomb Identified.
He's Smart Enough to Land a Drone on a Comet, But the Naked-Lady Shirt?
Fascinating comparison of the top 10 causes of death in 1900 and 2010.
The truth about the dungeon master who disappeared in the steam tunnels.
Leonard Matlovich: The Gay Military Hero You've Probably Never Heard Of.
Rachel Maddow trolls anti-science Tea Party school board members in the best way possible.
Gay vets reach milestone in Boston, still struggle nationally.
My Last Words to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Tomas Young, an Iraq war vet turned anti-war activist, passed away this week in Seattle at the age of 34. Tomas enlisted in the Army just two days after the 9/11 attacks. Following his training at Ft. Hood, Texas he was deployed to Iraq and paralyzed after being shot through his spinal cord just five days into his first tour.
Controversial Texas Restaurant Becoming A ‘Highly Rated’ Gay Bar. This is a story from earlier in the year, but a friend sent me the link, this snippet: "She say she would never broadcast her personal life in public. 'As one who has been married for 45 years to my husband, I don't think that it's my role to stand in the street corner and start talking about the style of private life my husband and I have.'", and then this translation: "I would never broadcast my heterosexual personal life in public. I would never tell everyone how I have been heterosexually married for 45 heterosexual years to my heterosexual husband heterosexually." And I had to share.
Carol Ann Susi, ‘Big Bang Theory’s Mrs. Wolowitz, Dead. (I'm old enough to remember her as Miss Marmelstein on the old Kolchak: the Nightstalker series...)
10 Times Mrs. Wolowitz Was The Best Part Of 'The Big Bang Theory'.
Queer Geeks Unite At Bent-Con 2014: COSPLAY PHOTOS.
Writing, writing, don't stop!.
Not forgotten.
Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Let's be writing buddies!
I Am Not - Brett Gleason (Official Video):
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Chicago zoo welcomes adorable rescued otter pup:
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[MUSIC VIDEO] "Darkest Magic" (Lo Pan feat. Jack Burton) by SuperVillains:
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xkdc live streamed the landing in cartoon, then animated it:
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