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Written about Monday 2008-04-14
Written: (6070 days ago)
Next in thread: 1024129

An oldish, but long and good post on age restrictions, minors and sexual content: http://ataniell93.livejournal.com/868472.html Written to address an LJ policy, but the ideas are of general value.



Added: a summary for [Sunrose] (a "sunmary", perhaps?).


Part I. Age-based access restriction

Livejournal's adult content policy is misguided. Warnings and lj-cuts are good, useful and sometimes necessary. Authors restricting access to their own content for whatever reasons is their own business. Other people restricting access to your content is not OK, and LJ shouldn't have given them tools to do so.

"Then there are the people who with the best of intentions genuinely want to child-proof the entire universe and can easily be stirred up by shit-disturbers.

{..}

"People who suddenly want to child-proof the entire universe after they have kids irritate me, particularly if I knew them before they had kids, but at least you can reason with them--usually.

People who want to make the entire universe hide everything it does that doesn't fit into their personal view of the world in order to keep their children ignorant that anything else exists are, frankly, really dangerous."

(the author explains why)

"{T}he problem with "it's nobody's business but mine how I raise my kids" is that the rest of us have to live in the world with them once they grow up, and people who successfully manage to fill their children's minds with hate and ignorance are creating problems for the rest of us."

Part II. Sex in stories and pornography

"We need a word for things that are not legally pornography that have sexually explicit content, and it needs not to be 'erotica'."

(a discussion of sexual content in different genres and the line between porn and not-porn follows)
1019748  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2008-03-23
Written: (6091 days ago)

Greta Christina's review / summary / recommendation of "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts" by Carol Tavris
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/01/mistakes-were-1.html

1017921  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2008-03-15
Written: (6100 days ago)
Next in thread: 1017952, 1018321, 1019758

A short quiz: http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofpuzzleareyouquiz/

Apparently, I'm a crossword puzzle :P

1017671  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2008-03-13
Written: (6101 days ago)

Great photos of old Russian places in winter: http://obz.org.ru/?p=256

(author's blog: http://qzmn.livejournal.com/ )

1015085  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2008-02-29
Written: (6115 days ago)

Infrequently Asked Questions by Donald Knuth
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html

1014852  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2008-02-28
Written: (6116 days ago)

Killing Us Softly 3 - Advertising's Image of Women
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1993368502337678412

Pretty basic stuff, but well narrated and rich with examples. Half an hour.

1005554  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2008-01-18
Written: (6157 days ago)
Next in thread: 1005593, 1005602
1002685  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2008-01-03
Written: (6172 days ago)

Incredibly cute, I think: http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/editarea/exemples/exemple_full.html

(Er, OK. Maybe I have an unconventional understanding of "cute".)

998082  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2007-12-10
Written: (6196 days ago)
Next in thread: 998096, 998143, 998177

The Fine Art of Fidgeting by Andrea: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/the-fine-art-of-fidgeting/

And, just for fun and completely unrelated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9vujyArcG4
(I couldn't believe those were the original lyrics at first)

990031  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-11-07
Written: (6229 days ago)
Next in thread: 990102

Information R/evolution http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
A Vision of Students Today http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Brilliant videos. Sound not required.

And their website: http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

985610  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2007-10-22
Written: (6245 days ago)
Next in thread: 985642, 985650, 985679

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

3700 so far... Studying biology and reading dictionaries and Snape-centric fanfiction seems to help quite a bit ;)

984339  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-10-17
Written: (6250 days ago)
984251  Link to this entry 
Written about Tuesday 2007-10-16
Written: (6250 days ago)
983191  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2007-10-12
Written: (6255 days ago)
Next in thread: 983220
982680  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2007-10-10
Written: (6257 days ago)
Next in thread: 982796

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/

A Flash game. Comfortable interface, cute little puzzles, science trivia as a bonus :)

982049  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2007-10-07
Written: (6260 days ago)

http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/the-words/

Unlike my previously entry, this one doesn't require any familiarity with csh :)

982033  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2007-10-07
Written: (6260 days ago)

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

".. after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire .."

P.S. You know what csh is, don't you?

973972  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2007-09-07
Written: (6290 days ago)
Next in thread: 973974

http://xkcd.com/

My kind of webcomic ;)

968069  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2007-08-18
Written: (6310 days ago)

http://users.california.com/~mcmf/ts202a.html
http://users.california.com/~mcmf/ts203a.html

"Altruism, Pity and Compassion: Significant (and ignored) differences" by W. Teed Rockwell

It's longish but clever and it makes a lot of sense to me...

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