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anotheranon ([personal profile] anotheranon) wrote2012-11-14 07:04 pm

magnificent linkage

Starting off with the crunchiest and most worth reading: [livejournal.com profile] hrj's Sex Between Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a worthy followup to her Essay on Cross Dressing in the SCA, which I also highly recommend. It is thorough, somber research but given the subject matter it might be NSFW. Writers and RPGers might find these very useful.

A thoughtful article on privilege and losing it, via @Mactavish.

Will rap music change the face of enterprise IT? "RapGenius is a site that lets users upload lyrics. Then it lets other users annotate and explain the meaning of the words for each song.”

Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, and Billy Connolly sit down for a podcast - no really! Recommended with one caveat - I had never heard of Sophie Winkleman before, and lamentably didn’t learn much about her from this podcast, as it’s illustrative of the unfortunate fact that women speak drastically less when they’re surrounded by dudes.

An old article on the winning mindset via Fencing.net. “Being an effective competitor in martial arts (or doing any challenging task for that matter) requires that you develop faith in yourself and in your ability” - no kidding! I think this is one of my main stumbling blocks - no matter how much awesome I can pull out, I still don’t quite believe I can do it again.

"Held", Jane Fradgley, Guy’s Hospital, London, Through March 2013 - exhibit of “strong clothing” (19th century strait jackets). Sobering but fascinating, I’ve never even heard of such things being exhibited before.

How to start a hackerspace - parts 1 and 2 of a total of 7 are already up. [livejournal.com profile] dustdaughter, might hackerspaces be the “salons” of the 21st century?

Edited 11/15/2012: Fixed links - I won't be using that editor again!

[identity profile] jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com 2012-11-15 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Such a tiny planet this is. I'm actually listening to Sophie Winkleman in season 3 of "Elvenquest" as I type this reply, and when I read your post, natch ... she's wonderful! (been one of the show's stars for all three seasons and hopefully many more). She also played the Russian hologrammatic scientist in "Red Dwarf: Back to Earth". :-)

[identity profile] hrj.livejournal.com 2012-11-15 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
There's something borked about your embedded links. You may need to hand-edit the html.

[identity profile] anotheranon.livejournal.com 2012-11-15 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ack! Good call! I think the editor I was using pulled extra quotes in that fracked up everything. These should all be fixed now but let me know if I missed anything!

[identity profile] hrj.livejournal.com 2012-11-15 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It all looks good on mouse-over. I didn't try clicking them all individually.

[identity profile] jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com 2012-11-15 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a recent LJ "enhancement"*** ... instead of staying defaulted to your original choice of yes or no to auto-formatting for all new posts, now you have to re-tick the "no" box every time you post if you don't want your html messed up (can you tell I've been caught by it quite a few times?)

***As defined by a wonderful IT person I worked with at the college: "enhancement" means the programmer removed useful features from the software because they were too lazy to do any editing required by the update.

[identity profile] anotheranon.livejournal.com 2012-11-15 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, "it's not a bug, it's a feature" :P

[identity profile] jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com 2012-11-16 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, if only we were allowed to shoot anyone who says that and expects people to believe it ... ***fantasizes***
Edited 2012-11-16 01:55 (UTC)