I love BoingBoing, but I don't always think Teresa (or any one of the Boingers) is right, or agree with how rude or dismissive she appears to be in text when answering some questions. Does that mean she is actually being rude or dismissive? I don't know. It could just be my interpretation. I rarely post comments, and when I did once where she responded to me in another comment, I was a little disppointed by what she said, but I didn't find it to be offensive.

Regardless of my own experiences, this is their site and they're free to respond, remove stuff, and edit at their own discretion. When you write in to the OpEd section of a newspaper, it's the same thing. Sometimes the exercising of one's freedom isn't totally beautiful and utopian, it's kind of unfair to another. But that's okay because we are free to do the same on our own turf, and are always free to particpate on their turf by their rules, to break their rules and deal with the consequences, or to simply choose not to participate. They don't have to be fair to everyone all the time: this isn't government, this is a website.

And maybe I'm naive, but I do think it would make an awesome statement if BoingBoing didn't take money from companies like Microsoft and refused to run their ads. Though I don't blame them for doing it because things are rarely black and white and I don't pretend to know anything about their particular advertising situation. For instance, it's highly likely that they long ago hired a company (Federated Media?) whose job it is to sell and place ads on BoingBoing, and the Boingers themselves are not at all knowledgable or responsible for the content of the ads.

Awesome. Except it doesn't appear to work in Opera.

Maybe I should have compromised more?

Mirrored:
www.andrewjimenez.com/NIS_Options_Analysis_Outcome.pdf

It's intellectual porn!
But yes, the binary gender/sexuality issue is sad, especially since this was done in part with the Kinsey Institute, whose founder infamously created that little ol' sexuality scale.
And is female sexuality really that mysteriious? Or rather, any more so than male?

I read recently that until the 1980s they used uranium in false teeth, because supposedly uranium will glow phosphorescent under black light--just like real teeth do. Then they realized, "whoops--radiation!" and also that the faslies glowed red and green under black light.

This is the saddest thing I've read in a long while.