Really extraordinary sportsmanship

What happens when a senior at Western Oregon scores her first home run and then collapses shortly after passing first base? Something extraordinary.

Brought tears to my eyes.

Interesting kerfuffles continue at Seal Press

Seal has done a great many good things. They are one of the few remaining feminist identified publishers in the US. They’re no longer independent and are owned by a much larger publisher, but I think they are still capable of doing good things. Because of the things I’m about to mention about them it [...]

Clay Shirky – Cognitive Surplus

This is via Making Light, who in turn got it from Warren Ellis.

Clay Shirky argues (I think wisely) for the idea that we are growing as an international (first world?) society is growing into one where we will stop just watching media, and will expect to be interactive with our media. He thinks the wave’s [...]

Your very own OpenID

(assuming you have a domain you can control/create subdomains on)

I just set it up. Took about 30 geeky minutes, including a 20 minute call in which I was attempted to be recruited about a job in Northern Virginia.

It’s two php scripts, a very little console work, and if you’re hosting on Dreamhost and running PHP [...]

A Modest Proposal – An LJ post about control of one’s own body

In the tradition of Jonathan Swift:

The post.

Tim Wise – A Caucasian Anti-Racist Activist and Speaker

I admire what this guy’s got to say. Like me, he uses the privilege he’s given to get his message to folks who would normally reflexively dismiss folks with similar knowledge and creds who don’t have pink skin.

So far I’ve only been able to read the PDF transcript, but I will include links to YouTube [...]