Writing about religious tolerance on MetaFilter

I write a lot of things on MetaFilter. I’ve sort of settled on it because I like and respect the moderators there and I think that many of the posters/commenters there really have decided, despite differences, to try to discuss things in good faith, civilly and without too much trolling.

I wrote a short essay about [...]

February 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

More activism – gender and feminist politics

Just a short pointer to a discussion of trans politics with respect to some feminist scholars who in my mind aren’t doing a lot of good for our trans siblings.

December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

Rape Culture and Schrödinger’s Rapist – an ongoing and profitable discussion

I wanted to point you to a very profitable discussion going on on Metafilter right now.

November 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

Genius, Creativity and Getting Started

This is a post composed of old news and links that are new to me, but from earlier in 2009. I encountered it today by way of a train crash type of Metafilter post about the new iPhone app from Pepsi that helps you “score” with women.

But the discussion that’s completely tangential in that thread [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

Aten’t Dead

I thought I should just drop a note and say I’m not dead. I am in fact 41 (so far for 10 days). Which is not dead, though some young whippersnappers (yes, I feel entitled to use that phrase now) seem to think so. I got news for ya, sunny Jim! ::shaking fist::

Yes, as the [...]

August 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

A Trip down Memory Sewer

Just catalogued my dealings with computers from as far back as I could reasonably remember (from the point of view of participating in computer-moderated/computer-hosted communities) on MetaFilter.

An interesting trip down memory sewer. Even came up with an old phone number I’d had but forgotten.

Update: Of course I forgot Livejournal.

July 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | 2 comments

One last AmazonFail post

A link roundup and a link especially to a blog called Adventures in Ethics and Science, which I am pleased to say sums up my response to Amazon pretty much completely at this point.

April 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

Lies and Damned Lies too?

(via Metafilter)

The BBC is running a series of articles on statistics and on how to spot flaws in media (and other) reports of statistical findings.

I’ve read lesson 1, but not the others, but it looks hopeful. I hope they apply these to their site’s editorial standards.

September 3rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | One comment