Bitchery: Phone Customer Service FAQ #1
Q: Why did the customer service agent hang up on me?
A: Did you swear at her? Did you actually fail to ask her something related to the job she was there to perform, even after fifteen minutes on the phone? Had she already given her answer? Had she given it several times already? Did …
Thursday Links
Section: Fiction Writing Tools
National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us. In honour of that, have some writing links.
yWriter
Open source text editor specifically intended for writing novels. You have a chapter breakdown on the left, goal/mood/etc markers for each chapter window, sections for character biographies, etc wow zomg. I haven’t tested it extensively yet, …
Book Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Note: I promise I will also post 2-4 star reviews; it’s not all total suck or total win. This is just what I happened to have next in line.
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
http://www.jonathanstrange.com
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It’s long. The plot is convoluted, the characters numerous, and the footnotes copious. It’s archaic; “show” is spelled as “shew”. It …
Thursday Links
I realize I haven’t been posting a lot of geeky links or… posts for a blog that claims to be predominantly geeky! I have no explanation. This is pretty much all just what I happen to have found interesting this week.
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Section: LGBTQI Interest
Trans Virgin Marys and other such heresies
A short but interesting article …
Book Review: The Castle of the Wolf
The Castle of the Wolf
Sandra Schwab
http://www.sandraschwab.com
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Warning: This review contains profanity.
Marketed as a gothic fairytale and authored by a German English literature professor, I felt this novel, despite the tacky cover and the cheesy setting, had the potential to surprise and entertain. I was wrong. The only surprise is how truly dreadful it was.
The plot …
Drive-By Linkage: Judge says “Yeah? Prove it!” on gay marriage harming traditional marriage
Click here for the MSNBC article.
A federal judge challenged the backers of California’s voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday to explain how allowing gay couples to wed threatens conventional unions, a demand that prompted their lawyer to acknowledge he did not know.
SCORE. Let’s see how that unfolds.
Link via #JesIdres.
Thursday Links
Segment: You Probably Knew This Already
Geek Feminism is fairly new group blog for just what it says on the title. The blog was kick-started when Kirrily Roberts found herself drowning in mail after her keynote on women in open source projects in OSCON earlier this year.
Governator Vetoes California Bills. I’m glad Arnie approved recognition …
Geek Rage: A short note on ‘The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky”
There was an article recently featured on The Spearhead, a “Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech” blog, which I’m not going to link to because this crud doesn’t need any more Googlejuice, about how women and gayness have ruined/are ruining SF. You can find the link on the response article I Remember When SF Was All About Straight …
Comic Review: Miss Don’t Touch Me
Miss Don’t Touch Me
Hubert & Kerascoët
http://www.kerascoet.fr
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I freely admit that I am biased against French and Belgian adult comics. This is because at some point no amount of high concept sci-fi or fantastic art can make up for the way the female characters are too often written as fantasy dolls propping up a pair of …
“London trans activists call for boycott of sham demo on October 17th”
This is an open letter that has been making the rounds recently. I’m neither British nor trans, but I believe the concerns voiced here are valid. If you agree, please distribute widely, especially on Facebook.
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