Wednesday Linkspam

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Two Articles about RPG'ing on Google Wave: We Came, We Saw, We Played D&D and Playing Online: Google Wave
(via mbrubeck) Looks like a very real possibility to me!

Laptop Magazine: Mattel Unveils Barbie's Newest Career: Computer Engineer
You know, while I have very mixed feelings about Barbie as a brand, I have completely unmixed feelings about providing girls with an accessible CS role model. Actually, I also think it's pretty cool to have a "girly"/traditionally femme female role model, becuase I think "you can be a female CS person as long as you're One Of The Guys" is also not a helpful conceit. So I like this. (Also, I kinda want her shirt.)

scans_daily: Why Anti-Oppression is Serious Business
(Deals with violence/oppression of trans people; may be triggery.) A sobering read, about why anti-oppression work isn't trivial.

Tiger Beatdown: MOMMY ISSUES, a Comedy in Two Bros
Or: Why I hate most male-targeted comedy.

HIGH-STRUNG FATHER-TO-BE: Oh, my God! The woman I have impregnated is about to have a baby! I’ve got to get across the country in time to witness the child’s birth! Will you help me, College Slacker on a Road Trip?

COLLEGE SLACKER: Ha ha, I bet your girlfriend has a vagina.

Got Medieval: Just a fruit tree, I swear *innocent whistle*
I love this.

beatonna: St Francis and the Birds
...and I love Kate Beaton.

Esquire: Robert Ebert: The Essential Man
Great article. See also Roger Ebert's response to the article, which is largely positive.

The lights come back on. Ebert stays in his chair, savoring, surrounded by his notes. It looks as though he's sitting on top of a cloud of paper. He watches the credits, lifts himself up, and kicks his notes into a small pile with his feet. He slowly bends down to pick them up and walks with Chaz back out to the elevators. They hold hands, but they don't say anything to each other. They spend a lot of time like that.

A conversation I have every month or so
Or: why restaurant websites SUCK.

Youtube: Sonic Boom meets Sundog
(Video, worksafe.) Gorgeous video.

Serious Eats: Adobe Photoshop Cook
Charming video: what if you could cook food using Adobe Photoshop?

The Big Picture: Welcoming the Year of the Tiger
Beautiful.

Jezebel: All Creatures Great and Small
Cat, kitten, and squirrel! Adorable.

Books on the Beach: Ikea Style
As an owner of... hmm, something like six or eight Billy bookcases, I loved this.

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: Snide Romance Review Drinking Game
I will be happy never to see any of these tired cliches again. (No, I'm not talking about the books. And yes, I do read romance novels.)

History of Science: Earliest Surviving Recipes (circa 1700 BCE)

All of the recipes have one thing in common: every one of the finished dishes relies on combinations of meat, fowl, vegetables, or grain cooked in water. Cooking in water was an enormous innovation.

A Softer World: Fairy Tale Romance
(via jimhines)

National Geographic Photo of the Day: 24.02.2010
And to close, an absolutely lovely photo of an elephant and a rainbow.

Recipes: What to Eat in February (almond soup; shredded beet salad; spicy coconut noodles; Russian black bread; garlic soup; chard, onion and gruyere panade; apricot almond magic cookies), Spaghetti with Cheese and Black Pepper (vegetarian, pasta dish), Winter Farro Salad (grains, vegetarian), Sweet Potato Pancakes with Lime Cilantro Yogurt Sauce (vegetarian), Curried Parsnips with Yogurt and Chutney (vegetarian), Spicy Two-Bean Vegetarian Chili (vegetarian, via dancambull)

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the recipes sound fantastic.

And Kate Beaton is always <3

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you about the Barbie, both the mixed feelings about the brand and the fact that it's cool that CS Barbie is totally femme. I wish society as a whole would get over its obsession with the way smart women look (or, well, women in general) - either they're supposed to be ugly, or they're supposed to look like One of the Guys (except totally hot), or they're supposed to look like models...

And of course women can look like any of those things; the problem is the idea that they're supposed to look like any particular one.

I also love the Year of the Tiger pictures, and the St. Francis cartoon. I have a friend who occasionally talks about "The bunnies are our friends!", and hearing the whole thing in her voice made it that much funnier.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

The sonic boom and sundog video was amazing!

I saw a piece about the computer engineer Barbie a few days ago and it was rather negative. I think it's great and the doll will make a great birthday present for my little granddaughter for next year. :)

[thegreatgonz.livejournal.com]

Someday I want to post a few paragraphs about how awesome Roger Ebert is.

[iainuki.livejournal.com]

Why is it that most restaurants leave the most pertinent information off their websites?