Awesome new forthcoming Ultimates series
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
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Some features I want in a Maps app
On my iPhone, I use Google Maps frequently, and Apple Maps fairly regularly. I love both apps, but I can't...
Five lawyers
I happened across an article about the aftermath of the marriage equality ruling at WND (formerly known as WorldNet Daily),...
See cats instead of ads, and support sites you like
Google Contributor is an experimental system that allows you to directly financially support websites you visit. If you sign up...
Marvel’s upcoming diverse comics
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...
Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Tomorrowland
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story...
Randomized Dystopias
Want to write a dystopia, but you're tired of dystopias that abrogate the same old rights that dystopias always abrogate?...
Lack of condemnation doesn’t equal approval
I still haven't finished writing any of the real blog posts I want to write about the Hugo situation. For...
That which does not kill us can still hurt
The other day, I saw yet another article that conveyed the very common narrative that difficulties and hardships make us...
Talking to people who are going through tough times
This post is something I've been meaning to write for years; I'm finally writing it as a starting point/background for...
Chocolate produced by slaves
A lot of the world's chocolate supply is produced by child labor and slave labor. I've been trying for a...