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Productivity is… Well…

9 November 2009 • reblog: thenelsontwins

Book reviewer quits over 'increasing sexist violence'

This story is a couple weeks old, but I was just reminded of it again when someone checked out The Girl Who Played With Fire. I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo over the summer, and certainly wasn’t surprised when I learned that the original Swedish title is Men Who Hate Women.

The most interesting part of reviewer Jessica Mann’s resignation is her assertion that women crime writers are the worst offenders in terms of sexist violence. She’s British, though, so she says it in a much more polished way: “The trend cannot be attributed to an anti-feminist backlash because the most inventive fiction of this kind is written by women,” she claims.

She started her column this way:

When a female corpse appeared on the jacket of a crime-writing colleague’s new book, she pointed out to her publisher that the victim in the story was actually a man. Never mind that, came the reply, dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don’t. Nor do dead children or geriatrics.

Huh. Cheers to Jessica Mann.

9 November 2009 • reblog: theconceptlibrarian

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mi5 is inTense but in a good way…

thenelsontwins:

I hear you loud and clear. I’m feeling a little tense. It is either my future that I worry about… Or the 75 episodes of MI-5 (aka Spooks) that The Strangelet and I have watched this weekend.
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the owls are not what they seem

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Flu Fashion

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Wolf at the Gate

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What?? Another shooting?

Did someone put a little too much crazy in this weeks water supply?

6 November 2009

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Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon

Chimney falls and lovers blaze
Thought that I was young
Now I’ve freezing hands and bloodless veins
As numb as I’ve become

I’m so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight

Last night I dreamt I had forgotten my name
‘Cause I had sold my soul but awoke just the same
I’m so lonely
I wish I was the moon tonight

God blessed me, I’m a free man
With no place free to go
I’m paralyzed and collared-tight
No pills for what I fear

This is crazy
I wish I was the moon tonight

Chimney falls and lovers blaze
Thought that I was young
Now I’ve freezing hands & bloodless veins
As numb as I’ve become

I’m so tired,
I wish I was the moon tonight

How will you know if you found me at least
‘Cause I’ll be the one, be the one, be the one
With my heart in my lap
I’m so tired, I’m so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight

6 November 2009

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Why do I find skeletons so attractive? Is it because it’s something that makes us all the same? Maybe it just reminds me that deep down, stripped of all our skin and body shapes and faces and even genders, we’re all just kind of painfully creepy looking, and goofy, and exposed and vulnerable, just wandering around trying to fool each other that we’re all so very different and special and unique (or the opposite) with our ridiculous skin suit disguises.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

— Douglas Adams (via kingfish76)

4 November 2009 • reblog: kingfish76

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Brain drain

Should I ever have major brain surgery (as opposed to minor brain surgery) to remove a tumor that’s pressing on my ocular nerve, after spending six hours in the OR, I will only need a mere 24 hours in the ICU before quickly recuperating and returning to work 48-72 hours later.

My company won’t be able to run itself, after all.

And, I openly suspect I might be God.

3 November 2009

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oldauntamy:

I have always admired the completely un-self-conscious among us - the people that sing in cars with abandon, the blatant nose pickers, the Michael Jackson-dancing bus riders. This is a montage of a cat doing the latter over the course of 15 months filmed by a person who worked in the office across the street. And it is the pinnacle of the Mt. Everest of un-self-conscious behavior.

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3 November 2009 • reblog: thedailywhat

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Revenge of the Night Owls

excellent news. But what about night owls living in this terrible early bird world? When can we, the brilliant, take over the scheduling? It’s really the conspiracy of the intellectually challenged early risers to make the smarter night owls look lazy…isn’t it.

whileyouweresleeping:

And speaking of vindication…

Remember when you, the night owl, were living with an early bird who really DID NOT SEE ANY GOOD REASON WHY YOU WOULD HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON FIVE THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE EVEN CONSIDERING GETTING THE HELL OUTTA THIS BED, SERIOUSLY, WATCH: YOU WAKE UP, YOU GET UP, IT’S NOT. THAT. HARD. NO, I DON’T BELIEVE IN BODY CLOCK, I DO, HOWEVER, BELIEVE IN LAZY, AND BY THE WAY, TURN OFF THAT LIGHT, I’M TRYING TO SLEEP.*

Well, guess what: research shows night owls are better at performing tasks 10 hours after they wake up (regardless of what time they wake up) than early birds. In other words, night owls are intellectually functional for longer.

So, as Newsweek’s Sharon Begley says:

… if you’re an early bird, you can stop feeling morally superior: night owls can keep their brains awake and alert for longer after they wake up—even if it’s after noon—than you can.

HA.

— From London.

*In all fairness, Early Bird and I did end up resolving this particular issue. It involved accepting that there is such a thing as different circadian rythms, which, while they may cause problems in couples, make complete evolutionary sense. But that’s a story for another time.