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Sep. 5th, 2012
$5 free at Starbucks!
Sep. 5th, 2012 09:30 amLivingSocial is doing another $10 Starbucks card for $5! This deal only runs today, and is definitely worth it if you spend any time at Starbucks.
$5 free at Starbucks!
Sep. 5th, 2012 09:30 amLivingSocial is doing another $10 Starbucks card for $5! This deal only runs today, and is definitely worth it if you spend any time at Starbucks.
1. One of the top ten free apps in the iTunes store is a game called "Airport Scanner." It's a crappy-looking freemium game built around finding illegal items in baggage (with gimmicks like a super scanner that "penetrates impossible bags," and other silly stuff). And one of the user reviews reads, in full, "I love this game it helps people learn why the TSA is so important."
2. Speaking of the TSA, you know how drinks you buy after going through security at the airport are okay? The TSA has decided they might need to swab them now.
3. Worldcon appears to have failed in a major way on the accessibility front.
4. Speaking of Worldcon, Rene Walling -- he of sexual harassment topped with cronyism at Readercon fame -- was up to his old tricks at WorldCon (see comment thread). And he was also volunteering (aka, working for the con and thus getting a position with some responsibility and benefits) and tending bar at a party, which surely shouldn't set of all the warning bells in the world or anything. But it's okay, he's been thanked in a Hugo speech (one would hope, but not without some doubts, for something more significant than not harassing the winner), so everything must be just fine. Each year, I'm less and less convinced that I ever really want to attend a Worldcon.
5. Meanwhile, the folks at DC Women Kicking Ass talk about what it's like to be harassed on the internet.
In the interest of providing a unicorn chaser, here are some baby hedgehogs. I don't know about you, but I really need it.
2. Speaking of the TSA, you know how drinks you buy after going through security at the airport are okay? The TSA has decided they might need to swab them now.
3. Worldcon appears to have failed in a major way on the accessibility front.
4. Speaking of Worldcon, Rene Walling -- he of sexual harassment topped with cronyism at Readercon fame -- was up to his old tricks at WorldCon (see comment thread). And he was also volunteering (aka, working for the con and thus getting a position with some responsibility and benefits) and tending bar at a party, which surely shouldn't set of all the warning bells in the world or anything. But it's okay, he's been thanked in a Hugo speech (one would hope, but not without some doubts, for something more significant than not harassing the winner), so everything must be just fine. Each year, I'm less and less convinced that I ever really want to attend a Worldcon.
5. Meanwhile, the folks at DC Women Kicking Ass talk about what it's like to be harassed on the internet.
In the interest of providing a unicorn chaser, here are some baby hedgehogs. I don't know about you, but I really need it.
1. One of the top ten free apps in the iTunes store is a game called "Airport Scanner." It's a crappy-looking freemium game built around finding illegal items in baggage (with gimmicks like a super scanner that "penetrates impossible bags," and other silly stuff). And one of the user reviews reads, in full, "I love this game it helps people learn why the TSA is so important."
2. Speaking of the TSA, you know how drinks you buy after going through security at the airport are okay? The TSA has decided they might need to swab them now.
3. Worldcon appears to have failed in a major way on the accessibility front.
4. Speaking of Worldcon, Rene Walling -- he of sexual harassment topped with cronyism at Readercon fame -- was up to his old tricks at WorldCon (see comment thread). And he was also volunteering (aka, working for the con and thus getting a position with some responsibility and benefits) and tending bar at a party, which surely shouldn't set of all the warning bells in the world or anything. But it's okay, he's been thanked in a Hugo speech (one would hope, but not without some doubts, for something more significant than not harassing the winner), so everything must be just fine. Each year, I'm less and less convinced that I ever really want to attend a Worldcon.
ETA (4.5): Reading this comment in particular pretty much makes we want to write off fandom as a fucking whole (not for the poster, but the people she refers to in the elevator).
5. Meanwhile, the folks at DC Women Kicking Ass talk about what it's like to be harassed on the internet.
In the interest of providing a unicorn chaser, here are some baby hedgehogs. I don't know about you, but I really need it.
2. Speaking of the TSA, you know how drinks you buy after going through security at the airport are okay? The TSA has decided they might need to swab them now.
3. Worldcon appears to have failed in a major way on the accessibility front.
4. Speaking of Worldcon, Rene Walling -- he of sexual harassment topped with cronyism at Readercon fame -- was up to his old tricks at WorldCon (see comment thread). And he was also volunteering (aka, working for the con and thus getting a position with some responsibility and benefits) and tending bar at a party, which surely shouldn't set of all the warning bells in the world or anything. But it's okay, he's been thanked in a Hugo speech (one would hope, but not without some doubts, for something more significant than not harassing the winner), so everything must be just fine. Each year, I'm less and less convinced that I ever really want to attend a Worldcon.
ETA (4.5): Reading this comment in particular pretty much makes we want to write off fandom as a fucking whole (not for the poster, but the people she refers to in the elevator).
5. Meanwhile, the folks at DC Women Kicking Ass talk about what it's like to be harassed on the internet.
In the interest of providing a unicorn chaser, here are some baby hedgehogs. I don't know about you, but I really need it.