Emma Thompson has taken her name off the petition that the cheese-eating postmodernism monkeys put up to support Roman Polanski.

Thanx to Shakesville.

Happy birthday, bcholmes, ceemage, and redbird

Steven Brust and Miss Manners

Thanx to Neil Gaiman

Carl Hiaasen has the editorial comments on Sarah Palin's manuscript, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

Thanx to Joel Zakem on Facebook.

Happy birthday, Benjamin Banneker

The Too Many of THEM Problem

Thanx to Unqualified Offerings

Gina Barreca doesn't envy the young.

Happy birthday, aquaeri and joemorf

Scans of my very earliest art is behind the cut. We're talking Kindergarten Art here. I find it highly amusing to see. I was clearly, clearly dyslexic, look at my writing.

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Once I find the drivers for my scanner, you'll be seeing some of my earliest artwork. As in Kindergarden art. Robots and mutant self portraits. You will then understand why I am so happy that computers were invented, as I lack the wiring that goes from brain to hand. I can't draw or sketch to save my life. And I have proof. Pretty amusing stuff.

First iPhone worm discovered

Apple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley. Once in place, the worm appears to attempt to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable, and installs itself again

On each installation, the worm - written by a hacker calling themselves "ikex" - changes the lock background wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley with the message: "ikee is never going to give you up".

Okay, okay, I've succumbed, assimilated into the Borg and I've started watching the X Factor. I have become one of the sheeple.

So, admittedly from my way-behind-the-curve position of latecoming newbie, here's my impressions of the contestants.

Horseface Bint is very sexy, right up to the point when she starts talking.

Olly is a brickie who does Dad dancing.

Lloyd, ahhhh, Lloyd, you had so much to prove. Is he just another identikit pretty boy, or can he really sing? Congratulations Lloyd, the test results are back, and you're pretty.

Aldi Lenny Kravitz has got a pretty decent singing voice, but he's still an Aldi Lenny Kravitz.

Welsh Bint is actually quite good.

AND JUST WHAT THE MOTHERFUCKING SHIT IS THIS?????????



Oh, John and Edward, you're like Chico in Duplicate. You're Susan Boyle for the CBeebies Generation. This is so horrific it actually spills over into genius.

Apparently Simon Cowell doesn't like them because he thinks it's exploiting the poor tastes of the British viewing public. Seriously, Simon, you're skating on thin ice with that criticism.

As for the other contestants...Oh, who cares? It's all about John and Edward.

Results show tonight, in which "fuck off, Lloyd" will be padded out to an entire hour.

How the revolution ends.

Thanx to spacecrab.

Happy birthday, aenodia

39 democrats voted against the bill.
After the crap that came down on all of us the last 8 years, we all saw what happens when a group bands together as one. They can pass evil legislature. They can rape and pillage at will.

The Democratic party still doesn't get it. You STUPID idiots. Band together, follow the party's lead. Forget grandstanding, stop thinking of the next election cycle. Band together, get shit done, and ask for apologies later if need be. Learn from the past, learn from the past 8 years on how to get things done.

And I want to bitch slap the idiot Shaddack holding little 1 year old Maddie Thompson, saying she loves America, she loves Freedom.

Little Maddie loves one thing. A nipple, fleshy or rubber, and a loved one to change the diaper she's got on, as the stench is building quickly.

They passed the house bill. Now it's up to the Senate to band together and push this thing through without watering it down, without taking on crap that has no bearing on the bill, possibly delaying it's passage because there are people who pass it with certain provisions in it.

1 out of 10 Americans are out of work right now. 1 out of 10 can't afford catastrophic illness, much less a simple trip to the family doc, nor afford to fill a prescription or two. We're halfway there. It's time to put on your big girl panties and push this sucker through.

[I just posted this on behalf of all three of us to the IAFA mailing list. Since the original announcement was made here on LJ, I thought the clarification should be, as well.]

As some of you have probably already heard, the three of us -- Arthur Hlavaty, Bernadette Bosky, and Kevin Maroney -- are offering a scholarship to this year's ICFA for a person of color who would otherwise not be able to attend. The offer originally published on Arthur's Livejournal, at http://supergee.livejournal.com/1969375.html; it has been reprinted in several places.

We are making this offer as a family that has, separately and collectively, a long and happy history with the Conference. We're amazed by the quality of the people who have e-mailed and expect that next week we will be able to announce a beneficiary who will bring a great deal to the Conference.

There has been some confusion about the sponsorship of this scholarship. We wish to stress that it is completely the responsibility of the three of us. Neither the Conference nor the Association are involved with the administration nor funding of the scholarship in any way. It is a scholarship *to* the Conference, not *from* the Conference.

Also, we wish to apologize for the lack of official communication with the conference before last night. The circumstances which lead to us being able to make this offer came about very suddenly, and when we realized we could do this, we rushed the
announcement out, because we knew that the formal deadline for papers, panels, and other Conference activities had passed. We wanted to give the recipient the best chance of being able to participate fully in the Conference. In our haste, we didn't think to notify any of the members of the Conference Board of our plans; the first any of them -- any of you -- heard about it was when the offer had already been made. This was, literally, thoughtless, and we are sorry for any inconvenience, confusion,
or upset the oversight has caused.

Thanks for reading. Please pass this announcement along to any person or venue where you think it might be of interest, and we will see you all in Orlando in the year and years to come.