Sorry for the unplanned extended absence, darlings. I’ve been absolutely slammed at work. But hey, here’s an update! Anyone knows I mock Twilight as much as the next person with a modium of appreciation for literature as an art form. But that said, here’s a really interesting take on why Bella’s utter lack of personality [...]

Here are the links from Twitter and Google+: The Reality of Sexist Abuse Online – Female bloggers share their stories of being abused and harrassed for daring to have opinions. Sometimes I’m glad my blog isn’t more popular. The Men Behind The War On Women – A feature on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops [...]

System D sounds like some new-age drug, but really it’s a nickname for the global shadow economy worth about $10 trillion annually: In many countries — particularly in the developing world — System D is growing faster than any other part of the economy, and it is an increasing force in world trade. But even [...]

Happy Hallowe’en everyone! I went as Lilo, from Lilo and Stitch. I wish I had a picture I could post, but you’ll just have to use your imagination. For what it’s worth, I was cute. Here are the links from G+ and Twitter: It’s Not a Sprint, it’s a Marathon: NaNoWriMo is upon us again…but [...]

Getting up in arms about Comic Sans is so 2001. If you have vehement opinions about why you prefer Georgia over Palatino Linotype, and why Calibri is barely an improvement over that most sacriligious Helvetica-rip-off, Arial, you might enjoy these two typeface-related games: Kern Type: drag the letters around for optimal kerning and get evaluated [...]

Ray Bradbury, on including minorities in works of art for the sake of including them: But, for now, the university wrote back that they hardly dared do my play—it had no women in it! And the ERA ladies on campus would descend with ball-bats if the drama department even tried! Grinding my bicuspids into powder, [...]

How’s this for an interesting ad campaign? Humanizing Sex Workers: Full write-up at Sociological Images here.

This article offers a really interesting and cutting look at Jon Stewart’s popularity in contrast to Michael Moore’s unpopularity, and what that says about the American left: Stewart’s entire persona is based around a smug self-satisfaction that speaks for his audience’s sanctimonious self-confidence in being right. Whether he’s doing something righteous…he does so arrogantly in [...]

Been super busy at work lately and went through a bout of flu, so there was no round-up last week. Here’s everything from the past 14 days: Links from Google+ and Twitter: The guy who founded We are the 53 percent? Turns out the three jobs he complains about in his posts are two freelance [...]

Two things from NPR’s Planet Money today: 1. Can you figure out a way to kill the Euro without causing global economic collapse? You could win £250,000! 2. At the beginning of the 2000s, the US government predicted that the national debt would be paid off by 2012, and schemed to prevent this calamitous occurrence.