Updated 1.24.2008

The List, The List, The List Has New Stuff...

Truth 1.24.08)
Art (new 1.24.08)
Blogthings (new 1.24.08)
Books
Comics
Do-Gooding (new 1.24.08)
Music & Musicians
Random Goodness With Explanation (new 1.24.08)
Random Goodness Without Explanation
Retail
Services & Stuff To Play With (new 12.24.08)
Video (All New Section 1.24.08)
Writings

Have fun! The pages themselves will "move up" under this post when they're updated (sometimes), and my Livejournal will continue to clue you in when IT updates.

India

• Lali, the two-faced incarnation of Durga
• 13 Year Old Virgins For Sale
• Scott Lefton's Kali

Bloggin' Memories

Sometimes I want to save things that aren't really random for future perusal, or to point other people to in the context of discussions, or just to ponder them more before developing an opinion on something.

WOMEN & SCI-FI
"1958" (Aaru Tuesday)
"From the Whoreses Mouth" (Aaru Tuesday)
"I'll Be In My Bunk" (Aaru Tuesday)

RAPE
"Constructing Rape" (Capitalism Bad, Trees Pretty)
"How to detect subtle differences between yes & no before you're accused of rape" (Abyss2Hope)

DISABLISM & BEING DISABLED
"One In Seven" (The Perorations of Lady Blackwell)

Truth

I have so many good links related to Truth that I decided it needed its own section. Some will migrate here from other sections. In the meantime...

Dieting Makes You Fat
...which is why No Diet Day does more harm than good.
Weight Loss Diets Are Useless &/or Harmful
You Are Not Your Body

A Modest Conversation: In Which A Psychologist Proposes a Swift Solution to Reports of Death and Disease Due to Weight

This is what they want for us, ladies.

If you are gay, the right wing hates you. Want proof?
Peyton Place in the Pleistocene

Cisprivilege Bingo!
Feminist Bingo!

On Not Being a Disease

I'm an OKOP, You're an OKOP

Art

I realized there was enough visual art floating around the various categories to probably warrant its own post. (Have no fear, webcomics are still art.)

• Hey, Hetero! (photo installation)
• Jupiter & Io (dead white guy: oil on canvas)
• The Whale Hunt (photo essay)
• Body Mass Index is a LIE. (photo series)
  

Random Goodness (Requiring A Bit of Explanation)

I never promised you a *lot*of explanation...

• Not only is it Pratchett-inspired, it sounds an awful lot like my toolbox.
• Radioactive Isopopes
• The Wisdom of Angela Chase
  
• Kittens ought to be outlawed for various reasons. Here are a few.
• Supersadomasochistonecrobestiality!
• Duct tape mannequin.
  
• Whack the Penguin & I [heart] clubbin' baby seals!!! Follow the links before you decide I'm horrible, kthx.
• We're all the same...
  
• Nerds have all the fun.
• Fandom can be dumb.
  
• Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Allsorts are serious business.
• The way this makes your brain hurt tells you you're getting smarter.
• I will know that I am truly loved the day someone makes me one of these.
• This is my kind of revolution.
  
• The world has moved on some in the past few decades: see an interesting example.
  
• I have no idea how I feel about this. You?

Do-Gooding

Do-gooding is fun; here are some ways to do good and/or good things being done.

• Kiva.org
• Vote For Trees
• Donors Choose
• Changing the Present lets you donate money to do anything from help orphaned chimps to publish articles on HIV/AIDS. Check it out.
  
• Hey, Word Nerds! Go play a vocab game & donate rice to the hungry.
• While you're at it, take a look at What the World Eats.
• This appears elsewhere, but The BMI Project has all my respect.