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Here are links to this year's WisCon guest-of-honor speeches, plus a couple of other items that seem to me to...

On Facebook recently, Jackie asked a question: Jackie: Conversations in languages other than English: italicized or not? Do we have...

In my Complete Sturgeon reading, I just read his 1954 story “Granny Won't Knit.” Spoilers and an entertaining anecdote follow....

I feel like there's been an amazing spate of pro-diversity advertising in the past week. Some links: A new Cheerios...

I've been trying to figure out why Pete Seeger's death yesterday, at age 94, is hitting me so hard. Part...

Here are the organizations I'm donating to in 2013. I used to post such a list every year, but haven't...

Jhayne points to a fascinating and odd 3-minute video about a photographer who gets strangers to pose with each other...

I've had several interesting conversations about gender roles in the past few days. Not gonna write a real entry about...

A discussion on Facebook about giving cash and/or food to homeless people (specifically sparked by someone describing having given food...

There's a lovely 7-minute feel-good video that purports to reproduce a scientific study that, the video says, proves that the...

Yesterday someone linked to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, and I realized that I had never read it...

I think I linked to Erin McKean's excellent 2006 post “You Don't Have to Be Pretty” at some point, but...