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Nov. 29th, 2013 05:52 am* "US Working Overtime Behind The Scenes To Kill UN Plan To Protect Online Privacy From Snooping :" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131120/17013625313/us-working-overtime-behind-scenes-to-kill-un-plan-to-protect-online-privacy-snooping.shtml
* "48% of U.S. Schoolchildren Live in Poverty:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/11/26/48-of-u-s-schoolchildren-live-in-poverty/
* "Thousand-year old swordsman rises from the earth:" http://yle.fi/uutiset/thousand-year_old_swordsman_rises_from_the_earth/6934793
* "Stockholm dig unearths 16th century kitchen :" http://www.thelocal.se/20131118/posh-old-pipes-excite-sdermalm-archaeologists
* "What A Thug's Life Looked Like In 19th Century India:" http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/11/18/245953619/what-a-thugs-life-looked-like-in-nineteenth-century-india
* Round about 10PM my body had one of its collapses it's prone to. Not surprising, really, given how fast I've had to dance the last couple of months. This one was rather scary, and I'm not particularly good now, but I'll manage. Posting may be in weird chunks at weird times, because I anticipate having to lie down at very short notice.
* I'm still processing J's visit, but I can tell I'm mostly done as my internal soundtrack has been tossing up a mash-up of Siouxie and the Banshees' "Ornaments of Gold" with "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera. This likely sounds like nonsense to normal people, but trust me, it constitutes snark on the part of my subconscious. In any case, I am reading Pamela Dean's Tam Lin as a pallet cleanser, as it's dragging my head space into the start of school at my first two colleges, which gives me a whole other array of baggage to distract myself with.
* Folks! You really need to see the sperm competition dance and cancer salsa! "Winners of the Dance Your PhD Competition Revealed:" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/11/25/winners-of-the-dance-your-phd-competition-revealed/
* "What scared H. P. Lovecraft :" http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/11/what-scared-h-p-lovecraft.html
* "25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/25-everyday-things-you-never-knew-had-names
* "48% of U.S. Schoolchildren Live in Poverty:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/11/26/48-of-u-s-schoolchildren-live-in-poverty/
* "Thousand-year old swordsman rises from the earth:" http://yle.fi/uutiset/thousand-year_old_swordsman_rises_from_the_earth/6934793
* "Stockholm dig unearths 16th century kitchen :" http://www.thelocal.se/20131118/posh-old-pipes-excite-sdermalm-archaeologists
* "What A Thug's Life Looked Like In 19th Century India:" http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/11/18/245953619/what-a-thugs-life-looked-like-in-nineteenth-century-india
* Round about 10PM my body had one of its collapses it's prone to. Not surprising, really, given how fast I've had to dance the last couple of months. This one was rather scary, and I'm not particularly good now, but I'll manage. Posting may be in weird chunks at weird times, because I anticipate having to lie down at very short notice.
* I'm still processing J's visit, but I can tell I'm mostly done as my internal soundtrack has been tossing up a mash-up of Siouxie and the Banshees' "Ornaments of Gold" with "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera. This likely sounds like nonsense to normal people, but trust me, it constitutes snark on the part of my subconscious. In any case, I am reading Pamela Dean's Tam Lin as a pallet cleanser, as it's dragging my head space into the start of school at my first two colleges, which gives me a whole other array of baggage to distract myself with.
* Folks! You really need to see the sperm competition dance and cancer salsa! "Winners of the Dance Your PhD Competition Revealed:" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/11/25/winners-of-the-dance-your-phd-competition-revealed/
* "What scared H. P. Lovecraft :" http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/11/what-scared-h-p-lovecraft.html
* "25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/25-everyday-things-you-never-knew-had-names