In the worlds of celebrity & entertainment, women are still judged harshly for their looks and their ability to corral said looks into idealized, hyper-feminine forms.
Traumanesia
Today’s recurring, consistent, un-resolved stressors are tomorrows (mental) health problems.
An embarrassment of old posts
Just been going through my old posts. DAMN. The iffy writing aside for one moment, one thing is very clear. I seem to have been …
Corps as Polities… and Google’s Migrant Crisis Donation Drive
Today I launched google search and saw a tiny, self-effacing, non-intrusive little grey banner at the top of the search page. It was asking for donations to …
Gynnies and Andies – part deux
Blimey… You turn your back for a minute… and the gynnies have whizzed through the evolutionary equivalent of a few millenia! Witness:
The real lesson of Rapa Nui
So…. I just watched a documentary on Easter Island… and I want to grab its makers and shake them, vigorously. Less of that for the …
Whiplash: it needn’t all be whip and lash…
First off, Whiplash is an awesome movie. I loved how different the story was, and I thought the casting was very apt (Paul Reiser as …
Holography Schmolography
[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …
Jodorowsky and his Dune
I was supposed to see the 12:00 showing. I didn’t. I fell into a phonecall lurking in some region of space-time that also happened to …
heartbleed: this is why C/C++ is, to this day, still too powerful for us
It starts with this piece of good-intention paving for the current https:// roads to hell: So we’re introducing a heartbeat, a transmission which seeks to …