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2010-12-24 11:51 am

Follow-ups to previous posts; tab dump.

WikiLeaks versus the world.

Frank Rich: Gay-bashing at the Smithsonian.

New Zealand's rugby team, the All Blacks, may be losing its awesome haka. Depending whether the tribe that originated it successfully trademarks the chant.

American Monopoly: the race game. 1970 version.

And what the twenty-somethings are doing when we can't get jobs. If gradschool doesn't take me, well. There are other plans to be made.

Merry Christmas Eve, all. I'm off to go sketch the beach.
arkster: Excited dragon is excited. (Default)
2007-10-12 07:46 pm

The world.

Al Gore won the Nobel.

The Vatican's publishing the Knights Templar records.

And LA Weekly did a piece on this Internet-based manifestation of this as-yet unnamed mental disorder which we in the Journalfen crowd mostly know by the name 'pseuicide'. It's not just faking your own death on the internet, though- it's faking the whole life, the full character, and then killing it off. Good piece of writing. I am reminded of half a dozen cases I've seen through the interweb grapevine.