Last night, I stopped off at the grocery store because I really wanted some Entenmann's chocolate doughnuts and the whole Entenmann's display was empty. Note to self: Thursday evening is best. Everything is gone by Friday evening. So this morning on my way for coffee I went to CVS to see if they could fulfill my craving, and they didn't have any Entenmann's products, so I just ended up with those Hostess mini powdered doughnuts, which are great and all, but sometimes I just want waxy chocolate coating over not-quite-stale yellow cake, okay? And I am being denied.

After that stop in at the supermarket, I met up with fleurdeleo for dinner at the bar, and somehow we ended up doing shots, and there was a moment - just after the second lemon drop - when the night could have gone on a lot longer and involved a lot more shots, but we decided to call it a night, instead. You know that moment - when you're twenty, you order the next round of shots and then another after that and end up not getting home until 3 am. When you're forty, you think about how you don't want to spend your Saturday miserable, and you go home in time for your show. *snerk* The shots were good, though. Also, the second round was free. Embrace the buy back. Plus the sugared lemon is always great.

I only had two beers and two shots and I was home in time for Fringe, though I was definitely tipsy enough that I think I missed bits. Anyway. ( spoilers )

So that was a good solid episode that advanced some character stuff. Next week looks like it will be fun.

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I'm pretty sure I've spent part of this week missing some time. There's no way it went as fast as it felt like.

Note for folks: in the US and Australia, possibly other parts of the globe, Lulu.com has a coupon deal running for free shipping: WHOASHIPPING305. It's a good opportunity to save on certain books...:D It's good through January 31st.

Also I've been crap about linking my essays at Extribulum from here, so I'm trying to be better about it. Today's is about why I can't write YA Lit.

By the way, if I want to post twice weekly on my "I actually write about writing here" blog for the rest of the year, I have to come up with like a hundred posts, and I have about five ideas. So if there's something to do with writing that you want me to talk about, make the suggestion, I could use them. Otherwise you're going to get a post about this comic book character I've decided to invent, and nobody actually wants that (you may think you do, but you do not).

Tonight I am going to go home and sleep all the sleep. All of it.

While I am having fannish ideas people should make for me, there should be a Loki vid to "Boy with the Bubblegun," y/y? (note: I honestly don't know if it's the case with this, but I don't care if a song is over-vidded? so you know, get on that, fandom.)

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Recs update:

unfitforsociety has been updated with 31 recs for January 2012:

*10 Captain America movieverse
*3 Avengers movieverse
*3 DCU
*2 Avatar: The Last Airbender
*4 Harry Potter
*3 Crossovers
*1 each Sherlock (BBC), Fringe, Life, Community, Mary Poppins, and Push

Read, love, comment! It is the circle of life!

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Last night, I finished Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey, which I think one of you recommended? I liked it a lot. It starts slow, with a big old exposition dump, but once it gets going it moves at a pretty compelling clip.

Let me say upfront that it's not actually about werewolves, which was sort of what I'd expected, given that the main character's name is Loup Garron and this is commented on in the text (I guess the author thought lampshading it was even more clever? except it's not very clever at all. But that is pretty much my only complaint - oh, and the way people say 'should of' instead of 'should've,' but I took that as an annoying stylistic choice, not ignorance, since the book was professionally edited and published).

What it is about is a teenage mutant lesbian Latina named Loup Garron, who learns to box for reasons that include both vengeance and justice. ( only slightly more spoilery )

All of which makes the book sound depressing, which I didn't think it was, mostly because it does have a hopeful ending. Bad things do happen to Loup, but I never felt that she couldn't live through them and move beyond them if she got the chance.

Anyway, I enjoyed it and recommend it. It's a quick, interesting read.

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New Fringe tonight, yay!

Anyone know when Young Justice comes back?

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So has anyone written the Terminator/Losers crossover where Sarah Connor is one of Clay's volatile women?

If not, someone should. Just think of the possibilities!

And somehow, I have neither a Sarah Connor nor a JDM icon anymore. What even is my life?

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ZOMG YOU GUYS, LOOK AT WHAT I GOT:

The Grace That It Takes (3360 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sokka/Suki (Avatar)
Summary: It dawns on Sokka that this may not match the tales, but he can find nothing in this twist to complain about.

In the end, there are no magical gifts for Sokka and he doesn't go straight home, but a ship and a maiden are both involved. Kyoshi Island is on his way, after all.

Standing on the deck next to Suki, watching her bright eager smile and the way she grips the rail as the prow slices through the waves on their way into harbor, it dawns on Sokka that this may not match the tales, but he can find nothing in this twist to complain about.

This story is FULL of Sokka and Suki being ADORABLE and also navigating their relationship - with occasional obstacle - after the war. I DRAW A MILLION SPARKLY HEARTS AROUND THEM AND AROUND THIS STORY! Thank you so much, anonymous white_lotus author! It is exactly what I wanted! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

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So my day started with ( a little period TMI )

since I was up, I washed my face and brushed my teeth and did my normal morning stuff, and then I said, it's only 7 am. I'll curl up in bed for a little while, and wait for the second alarm to go off - my alarm clock has two alarms, and I have one set for 7:25 and one set for 7:45, just in case I turn the first one off. Except apparently I turned both alarms off this morning, because when I woke up, it was 8:25. Um, oops?

Luckily, since I'd already done all the time-consuming stuff, I just shoved my breakfast and lunch in my bag (I forgot them on Tuesday *hands*), and made it here by 9:25. Go me.

But I am really, really awake, because there is nothing like that adrenaline surge when you wake up an hour later than you're supposed to and you need to be somewhere.

I think last night I solved the issue with the idfic and can now move on to writing the climactic scene and the ending. 11k words later. I don't even know.

Have a poem:

Light filters into the hemisphere

from Flor de rechazo

Light filters into the hemisphere
between the crevices of night
feasting
motionless and tingling bodies

In the depth of the wound time is reborn
Igneous auroras of the primeval chaos
Silhouettes of exile
devoured by the planet's jaws
The flower of fire
Music of whales
The snapping of the beast
The boldness of siroccos
on cities just grown

Lights filters into woods
oblique rays interweave the shadow
of the plantation
A pin immobilises the butterfly
in full flight
Indolent chants celebrate
the tremulous bodies lying after
the battles of a bloody glow

~Myriam Montoya
Translation: Nicolás Suescún

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I have seen this week's White Collar! It felt like White Collar again!

I'm fickle, I know.

Anyway, it's time for Sam's Three Things Pieces About White Collar. Spoilers for Episode 3.12, ( Upper West Side Story )

3a. "Well, Neal is more of a romantic, and I'm a machiavellian puppetmaster, so what we're going to be giving you is...game." I JUST ABOUT DIED. Especially since that ended up being the worst game-giving ever.

So I toured a hot dog factory, and now I'm a little worried about what might be on my shoes. :D

It's a super-popular tour, I'm not sure why -- I mean, I know why I went, and I had a blast, but I don't know why other people would be like HEY, A SAUSAGE FACTORY, GOOD IDEA. They only give the tour twice a month to groups of six maximum, and there were three of us today, but that's because it was going to be me and a five-person group, and they cancelled. So it was me and two other people who were supposed to do the tour this coming JULY and could come today instead. That's how long the waitlist is. Seriously, this trip was eight months in the making for me. Totally worth it.

( Why I approve of Vienna Beef sausages. )

So yes, great tour, yummy smells, really gave me confidence in the product, and a good time. It's free, too, though of course it's difficult to do if you're from out of town because the wait is so long. But well worth it, at least I thought so.

Last night's White Collar

( spoilers )

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Idfic broke 10K last night, and that was just in the reading over/editing process - no new scenes were added. I did find an unfinished sentence in the middle of a scene and couldn't remember where I was going with it. The perils of being interrupted. Heh. I think I did what I meant to do, even if I can't remember the exact wording I was originally planning on.

I also posted a story yesterday:

64 Colors (at AO3)
Avengers (2012); Darcy, ensemble; g; 2,045 words
Darcy's life is weird, but she kind of likes it.

I had this idea on the subway on Monday, possibly sparked by that fanart from a few weeks ago of the Hulk coloring, that one of the things Darcy introduces Steve to in the 21st century is the 64 color box of crayons with its own sharpener (the original summary, when the story was going to be more Steve/Darcy than Darcy gen, was "Welcome to the future, Steve. It has its own sharpener." But when I said Steve/Darcy, angelgazing said, "but Clint!" and so, gen. Though I think you can read it as Steve/Darcy or Darcy/Clint if you like. *hands*).

Anyway, in addition to that, I felt bad about the way I keep leaving Bruce out of my stories, so I thought, wait, coloring is a very soothing activity. Perhaps it's one of the ways he keeps his cool in the lab! And so originally, it was just going to be the three of them, but then angelgazing suggested Natasha show up with peanut butter sandwiches (and I quote, "She's polite, not a chef," which became my new LJ name, and was transformed into "She's terrifying but she has lovely manners" in the story), and it kind of snowballed from there.

I'm really glad other people are as tickled as I am at the idea of the Avengers sitting around in a conference room, coloring. And Clint is totally a secret brony.

This is why you want me in your fandom, people. Other fans will write works of heartbreaking angst or panty-melting porn, but only I will write about team-building via coloring. Someone's got to bring the ridiculous, right?

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Ugh, I got my period yesterday and I have been way over-emotional about everything. Stupid hormones. I will be so pleased when it is gone and never comes back.

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I went to the dentist! He filled my cavity! I cannot feel my face!

I forgot about novocaine. I have zero foods that are appropriate for someone who has just had dental work done. I'm trying to figure out if I should try to gnaw a slice of leftover pizza to death or just eat almond butter with a spoon. I like almond butter, but not enough to eat it with a spoon if I have other options.

Tomorrow I am taking a tour of a hot dog factory. It's serious business, I signed up for this tour last April. I have to sign a page-long confidentiality form and turn off my cellphone. I probably shouldn't even be telling you people the hot dog factory gives tours. ARE YOU SPIES FOR HEBREW NATIONAL? Wait, no, they don't need spies, they've got God on their side.

(If anyone on the Cafe actually does work for Hebrew National, who are my preferred brand of hot dog, I will die laughing.)

I don't even know.

64 Colors
Avengers (2012); Darcy, ensemble; g; 2,045 words
Darcy's life is weird, but she kind of likes it.

Thanks to angelgazing for the encouragement.

( 64 Colors )

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Feedback would be lovely.

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I wanted a Cheesesteak today.

The differences between a Cheesesteak and an Italian Beef are probably mostly semantic and involve the cut of meat and how it's trimmed; also depending on where you get it, an Italian Beef does or does not have cheese or onions, sometimes it has peppers, but ANYWAY, the point is that for me, the difference between a Cheesesteak and an Italian Beef are that Great Steak & Potato calls it a cheesesteak and is closer to work.

So I went to Great Steak and Potato for lunch, and got a cheesesteak and some fries. And I came back to work and ate it at my cubicle, while listening to the Gluttony episode of Caustic Soda Podcast.

Awkward Coworker: Oh! You're the one who has fries, I knew I smelled them.
Sam: Yeah, but they're not very good fries.
Awkward Coworker: Not very good?
Sam: Soggy. Very unsatisfrying.

IMMEDIATELY, from THREE DIRECTIONS (my boss's office, the person who sits behind me, and across the hall) I hear "OH NOOOOO". It was so sudden and so loud that Awkward Coworker was startled. Possibly one of my finest moments as a punster.

On the other hand, I just remembered I have a dentist's appointment later today. Possibly should not have eaten a cheesesteak beforehand.

The moral of the story is: Great Steak & Potato is not that great, and do not get their fries.

I was listening to one of Bill Simmons' podcasts last night - which I rarely do, because I zone out when people are just talking in my ear, and also there was way too much about the spread and the points and the over/under that I don't care about - but I found it weirdly hilarious, because there was a lot of moaning and groaning about how everybody favors the Giants and blah blah they're tired of hearing about Eli Manning and his stupid face and wah wah revenge for 2008 etc. and I was just like, seriously? Seriously? Because you are not the Patriots of Tony Eason or, like, the Buffalo Bills or something here. These are the New England Patriots of Brady and Belichick, who might as well be the Yankees of the NFL at the moment (sorry, but you know it's true!), and who are favored to win in two weeks.

Sure, Tom Brady had a bad game on Sunday, but he's still Tom Brady, and his fans never stop bragging about the three rings he already has, so it seems a little too late to start trying to be the underdog now.

I also don't know who all these overconfident Giants fans they know are (okay, no, I know exactly who they are, not in the sense of actually knowing their names, but knowing the type), because every Giants fan I personally know, with the exception of my nephew who is 15 and doesn't know any better (but after last year's DeSean Jackson debacle is starting to learn; also, the existential futility of being a Mets fan helps) - is kind of hollowed out and paranoid and tense from being a Giants fan for so long; people who, even if they don't remember The Fumble themselves, can sense it in the DNA of other, more recent collapses. I mean, okay, it's not a 54-years-without-a-Stanley-Cup kind of beaten down, but blowhards who brag around on the Giants are basically the fans the rest of us Giants fans wish would STFU.

The thing about being a sports fan is that one lives in the lizard brain for a lot of it. Yeah, sure, there are stats nerds and a lot of chitchat about how complicated a game football, for example, actually is, the sets and the routes, the slants and the schemes, etc. etc., but that is for the players. For the fans, it is all about, "I turned the TV on and the other team scored. Therefore, it is my fault and now I will stop watching in the hope of containing this bad luck before it gets out of hand!" or "Every time I wore my Manning jersey, they won, so I'm going to keep wearing it!" It is about signs and omens and trying not to get too confident but not losing faith, as if the strength of the fans' faith or how much trash they talk is something that actually matters in terms of winning or losing games. It is all superstition and irrationality. It's knowing that it's superstition and irrationality, and subscribing to it anyway. It's all in that lizard brain instinct - don't let them know we're here and maybe we'll get out of this unscathed! Do you want to draw the wrath of the whatever high atop the thing? Don't ever mention someone's throwing a no-hitter earlier than the bottom of the seventh! If you mention that a QB hasn't thrown an interception for 15 straight quarters, BOOM, the next pass will be an interception! And it sounds like craziness, except for how it sometimes seems to happen exactly like that.

So even while I was incredulous at what I was hearing, it made all the sense in the world to me, because that is exactly how fans talk, especially when there is a lot of time before the game and nobody has a good feel for what is actually going to happen.

I don't know what is coming on Super Bowl Sunday. There's a lot of intertwining history and stories - Brady will dress at Peyton Manning's locker, Eli will attempt to go one up on Peyton in terms of Super Bowl rings in the stadium his brother built. The Giants ruining the Patriots' undefeated season. The Patriots wanting revenge for that. The Giants getting hot at the right time.

All this is nothing but anxiety spinning itself into frenzy while we wait for the game to start. I don't know how sports manages to get in under the skin like that, but it does, it has, and there's nothing like that jittering excitement when it's your team playing for it all.

PS: I know, you didn't sign on to read about me blathering about sports ad infinitum, so take heart! It will probably end after the Super Bowl. Unless the Rangers make the playoffs.

*subject quote from The Office, though Eli quoted it prior to Super Bowl XLII (and apparently some people didn't realize it was a quote? idk).

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It's been several solid days since I actually made a post about myself on my blog. Not sure what happened there; I think my life has simply been uninteresting while I recover from the endless week of endlessness.

Actually I've done a lot. On Saturday I went out to brunch with my theatre group at this place off the Paulina brown line stop, Wishbone Restaurant, and had an incredibly ambivalent experience with cornflake-coated french toast. It wasn't bad, it was just...strange. The sausage was exceptional, though.

The area around Paulina is pretty neat; there's a fun toy store next to Wishbone, a really fantastic bakery up the street, and apparently (this is hearsay, but I intend to prove or disprove it soon) the New England Sandwich Shop near the bakery makes the best lobster roll in the city. North of the train station is the Paulina Meat Market, which smells astoundingly good. I may need to start paying visits to get my meat there; I really miss having access to a great butcher's counter, like I had in St. Nowhere. Living directly behind an organic grocer is one of the few things I genuinely miss about grad school.

My work with the theatre group is getting me out of the house a lot, actually. Sunday I was at rehearsal, which went well; I got to talk to the playwright for the first time and get some questions answered. Monday night I had production meeting for the group, which went fast because like half our people are out of town. At the moment I'm researching southern spirituals for the scene designer and baptism traditions for one of the actors.

Work's ticking along quietly; Coworker Crush keeps forgetting the book she was going to loan me, so I've been stopping by her office daily in mid-morning to pester her and entertain my replacement at the front desk. Budget projections are well underway, and it's remarkable how much easier they are when everyone's healthy.

Three people I know had babies last week within the space of four days. SURREAL.

(I keep looking at my notes from yesterday's weekly planning meeting with my boss as I write this, as if those are going to help me remember wtf I did last week.)

Also, my friend I was fundraising for yesterday wanted to pass along her thanks for your donations -- she was able to pay off two utility bills and has almost made rent for February. It's good for me too; so many of my friends are out of work, and I feel so helpless at my inability to do any more than I'm already doing. So. Thanks from her and from me for that.

ugh. why is writing so hard?

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Castle

I really only have two comments about this episode:

( spoilers )

Man, I am actually excited about next week's episode, though I kind of wish they'd flipped the roles, like Fringe did in "Brown Betty." Because Beckett rocking a suit and a fedora would be AWESOME.

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It's all about food, in ( A Cheaper World )

So, uh, quite a game last night, eh?

\o/

I have already requested the Monday after the game off and been approved. Either way, I'm going to need it.

Meanwhile, the idfic is now over 9k words long and I still have the climactic scene to write. The only way this thing could be more idtastic is if Cassie's mom revealed that she'd had an affair with Nick's dad and that Nick and Cassie were in fact half-siblings. *facepalm* Be grateful I did not go that route, though it's possible I'll write that story eventually. I actually got out of bed at 2 am to write a scene that I hadn't been able to figure out. Sometimes I hate my brain. WHY NOT DURING REGULAR HOURS, BRAIN? WHY THE 2 AM GENIUS? (Alternately, I hate the 9-5 working world. Why can't I just be independently wealthy and stay up all night writing? WHY?)

I'm also contemplating changing the title, which I originally moved off another wip and which may be moved back onto that one. *hands* I don't know. It's been the working title of a bunch of different wsip and always changed at the last moment (for reasons!), so who knows?

I also started working on another story that hit me on the train this morning. I think perhaps I amuse myself a little too much, but I can't help it. Sometimes I just want ridiculous, adorable things and it's hard to get other people to write them for me. We'll see how that goes.

And I still have to actually write my picfor1000 story. It should be interesting after all this porn, because it needs to be the gen-est, most g-rated thing ever. I really hope I can make something that shows how much I love the source.

In other news, this weekend I read Making Money, the second Moist von Lipwig book, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, though not quite as much as Going Postal, even though there was actually more Vetinari, and I do kind of love him a lot.

Meanwhile, I still love my iPhone, and I'm trying to convince angelgazing to write the story of JARVIS and Siri's forbidden love, of which Tony does not approve (he thinks Siri isn't good enough for JARVIS; everyone else, meanwhile, is afraid that if they get together, Skynet will ensue). *hands* We make our own fun.

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Good morning all, and welcome to the most epic RFM ever. Srsly, so many links.

Ways To Give:

Claire linked me to a fundraiser for Sarah Burke, a Canadian freeskiing champion who died in an accident in the US -- and whose hospital bill for her stay in a US medical facility was $500k. The money has been raised to help her family, but the information is still something I think people should have, and they are accepting donations to help with funeral services and establishing a foundation in Sarah's honor.

abraxas_life is in a charity ride for Diabetes, Tour de Cure, with her father, but they need to raise $200 each to participate. Her father is apparently doing well, but she could use some help reaching her goal; you can donate here.

Anon linked me to a fundraiser by author Patrick Rothfuss, Worldbuilders. Worldbuilders donates all of the money made to Heifer International, which helps build sustainable economies is poor areas and third world countries. Pat is raising money through lottery and auctions; you can find more info here. You can also donate directly here. The fundraiser lasts until midnight on February 7th, CST.

ailelie is raising money to start Plunge Magazine, an ezine focusing on queer women in genre literature. She looks like she's got a heck of a plan for it, and like her I'm not sure if there's another ezine out there with the same focus, so I think it's well worthy of support. You can check out more info and donate here.

Fans Helping Fans:

I'm rattling the cup myself this week; I have a friend who's in need of help and I could use some help helping her. I can't really say more than that, but if you're in the mood to pass on a couple of bucks to a very deserving person, and you trust my discretion, you can paypal copperbadge at gmail.com or give at the donation page here. Thanks guys :)

bicrim has a fantastic opportunity available for Cafe computer security engineers in the DC area. They're hiring fast and desperate to find folks; you can find all the info here, and I strongly urge you to check it out!

polarisnorth found an apartment through RFM last year, and now is looking for a new roommate to live in said apartment. It's in the Boston/Cambridge area and you KNOW they'll be good people 'cause they're Cafe. :D You can contact her at DW or LJ, or her other roommate aria at DW or LJ; those posts have information including links to Craigslist ads with photos.

Help For Free:

the_rainbow_jen passed along the news that according to Swedish law, if you want to legally change your gender, the government forces you to undergo sterilization, taking away your reproductive rights. There's a petition regarding it here And an open letter from the Human Rights Watch here.

888mph has an informational post up about Lau Fat-wai, a Portuguese citizen arrested and sentenced to execution for drug trafficking in pretty suspicious circumstances. You can read about the case here (and why Amnesty International is taking an interest) and there's a link to a petition.

starlingthefool linked to a site that I thiiiink I may have linked to before but can't remember: Charitysearch. This site allows you to search the web while helping to donate to charitable causes; every time you go to their site to search (which eventually redirects to the search engine of your choice) Charity Search makes a charitable donation.

News To Know:

Trigger warning on this one, please check the blurb before following the link: lirren let me know about Project Unbreakable, created in October of 2011 by Grace Brown. Grace uses photography to help heal those who were sexually abused by asking them to write a quote from their attacker on a poster and photographing them holding the poster. Obviously this may be very, very triggery to some folks, so click with caution.

brainwane has an informative link about Kindle highlights and interactivity with Amazon. I'm not well-versed in Kindle so I'm not sure what it means, to be honest, but her quote from the conclusion seems informative: "If you have a Kindle, connect it to your computer and look on its filesystem. All your highlights are kept in a structured-text file located at documents/My Clippings.txt. This file includes highlights taken from PDF files and other ebooks not recognized by Amazon, which don't get synced to kindle.amazon.com. ... take control of your highlights by backing up this file."

SOPA/PIPA Special feature:

I got a ton of links this week about both SOPA/PIPA efforts and the Megaupload takedown that was apparently not linked to the blackout but did happen to coincide with it, and of course the Anonymous strikback that led off from that, which let me tell you, wigged the hell out of my mum. So in case you've been hearing a lot about this stuff but haven't had time to hunt up information, I have some for you!

daymarket linked to an explanatory infographic that explains what the proposed legislation does. Please be aware this infographic is rather simple, but daymarket also linked to a more complex discussion here. The number of supporters/detractors is also now out of date after the blackout (a more up to date one is here, but this is moving very fast.)

Regarding the Megaupload indictment, jadey linked me to a discussion of it by some of Dreamwidth's folks here. For the story as it unfolded, kallaneboi linked to a WSJ article about the shutdown, stephani673 linked to a Gizmodo article about Anonymous's revenge, and taerowyn had a Gawker article about why this revenge, while terribly satisfying, is also rather hazardous to your computer's health.

Both of these issues are getting a lot of attention and are part of a very fast-moving continuum. It behooves you as internet users to be aware and informed; don't depend on my once-weekly updates if this is something that concerns you.

Just For Fun:

I know I'm just about the only person who finds Shit Girls Say unfunny and kind of worrying, but it's creepy and I had to have an upsetting talk with my sister about it. That said, I'm not gonna lie: Shit Austinites Say cracks me up.

Also awesome: Apparently now our technology allows us to make music out of tree rings!

Ever wanted to read about the neighborhoods of Chicago? Here are some profiles, complete with awesome logos.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help. Remember, non-embedded links are love.

omg the game hasn't started yet and I'm a nervous wreck. I guess I will just update this post as things happen rather than posting ten times like I did last Sunday. IDEK. I feel ill.

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That was a shitty spot. Ugh.

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\o/

I forgot how stressful the playoffs are.

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\o/

That was sloppy and kind of awful, but they have the lead.

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oh my god, these stupid penalties are hurting my soul.

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*weeps*

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jesus, I'm glad they didn't get the interception, but I never like seeing this.

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DUDE. DUDE. THAT TOTALLY HIT HIS KNEE. THAT IS A GIANTS TD. Or it should be, but they won't overturn the call on the field. fuckers.

Okay, they can't advance it, but it should be Giants' ball. But after the not-a-fumble that was a fumble last week, I have no confidence in the officials.

Okay, wow, I didn't believe they'd overturn, but they did. Thank you, Ed Hochuli.

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\o/

Manning to Manningham for the TD!

Though seriously, Eli looks a little off tonight.

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Ugh. Tie game. the Giants are terrible.

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Oh my god, I can't deal with overtime. I don't understand these new rules. I don't have any can left.

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I am just going to stare at Sebastian Stan's face for a while, because I cannot deal...

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Did that just happen? Did the Giants just recover in field goal range? Really?

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I can't believe this is happening.

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THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!

Um, I mean, THE GIANTS ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL! HOLY SHIT!

REMATCH!

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