jazz trance!

To clarify, the counting of the _paper_ ballots was electronic - not the casting of ballots.

In any case, still disturbing.

I voted, and was disappointed to see how few other people did, given the size of the population in London.

The voter turnout didn't do much to dispel the idea that people in the UK enoy being ruled by a small unrepresentative elite (Labour, Conservative, elected or otherwise)

I liked the clip of the Fensler film GI Joe PSA redubs. Now that is some awesome wtf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ-ckU_D1fg

#5 Eat Carpet - weird films and soft porn. Whilst waiting for Rage I seem to recall (or maybe my late night tv all blurred into one).

@13 Seems more like a server side setting, or web app setting on your blog. Most servers/web apps have defined upload buffers sizes, and timeout periods.

I grapple with these issues everyday, 21st century humans. You, for one, should welcome your 31st century overlord.

@33 DDOS

monorail!

My favorite undercover anthropologist game the moment is to walk around town and count the number of people wearing blue denim jeans. Try it next time you are out and about. They're the new toga for the western world!

I warn you, don't go reading the comments section in that New Scientist article. Nothing like creationism to ruin my day. Serenity now.

#17 lolz

iPwned

I think the approach sister y advocates is good one, not only for the nice way it avoids pissing on people's wheaties ie. making them angry/sad/upset (which as nice people we don't like doing), but also because it is a pragmatically more effective way of getting people to change their opinions than straight criticism.

When you criticise/attack someone directly, their defences come up, and they are less likely to hear anything you have to say, and hence their opinion will never change, whereas by demonstrating the 'better' alternative without attacking their existing beliefs, they are more likely to come to see the qualities of what you are advocating.

#21 some Indigenous Australian tribes

I was reminded of Orwell's account of being shot in the neck

A few questions, so we don't conflate issues.

1. Is global climate change happening? yes/no

If No goto 5.

2 Should action be taken as a result of global climate change? yes/no

3. Should we attempt to prevent global climate change? yes/no

4. Is global climate change occurring because of human activity? yes /no

5. Should we increase or decrease the human generated levels of greenhouse gases? yes/no

I've spotted a few stencils done on the sidewalk in London where they have used soapy water and a scrubbing brush to wash away the accumulated dust and grime, and left the desired design in clean white concrete.

Thought that was pretty cool.

I'm just waiting for the day I'm subsumed into the great pulsating biotechnomemetobeast like mitochondria once before. Apparently I'll spend my time expressing poorly written comments in blog posts, rather than proteins, but hey.

It certainly is surprising to think that all the classical greek scultpure and architecture could once have been brightly painted. I remember seeing traces of the paint in the interior of a cathedral, and my idea of how cathedrals looked 'back in the day' was transformed.

#4 I concur, 'Distress' by Greg Egan is great! Still think about it years after reading, as I do about most of his stories.

and why are you all so grumpy today?

#23 Well you obviously still remember it... so "Mission Accomplished" I'd say. ROFL.

Playing the bagpipes!

http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/bagpipe

#25 as soon as I hit post I thought hang on...

That said, I still think the requirements for men as less of an imposition, and, notably the requirements differ between the sexes.

Of course now we're truly exposing the weirdness of compulsory clothing.

>The rule is simple to cover your head if you are a women. And by the way all my muslim haters, the same thing is prescribed for the jewish and christian women. Look at the nuns!!!

Can't, god said so.

Why don't the men have to cover their heads?

Pointing out other examples of crazy doesn't make your pet crazy any less.

>I know plenty Muslim-American feminists that CHOOSE to veil as a statement against the "male gaze," so I think veiling can be very feminist.

(One of) my issues with people reclaiming veil wearing as non-sexist empowerment is that it looks exactly like veil wearing due to oppression. Doesn't upset very much social order at all, thus all the forced veiling continues on. I could also mention false consciousness here.

In addition, I think if you want to tackle the issue of the "male gaze", you should tackle the root cause, i.e. that the unwanted "male gaze" is objectifying, dehumanizing, and sexist because the male doing the gazing is sexist.

#3 I saw the fnords and all I got was this lousy post. And some cheap hoffman lenses.

In other news, I also lost a couple million today when dirty college kids didn't buy my stuff either. Dirty college kids.