Links!

Apr. 28th, 2011 04:52 am
trouble: "Thinking can be dangerous" (Thinking can be dangerous)
Yesterday did not go according to plan, so I've decided not to discuss today's plan in the hopes that this means the imp of the perverse will not hear of it and ruin everything.


[personal profile] marshtide wrote about how archaeologists determine the sex of a skeleton.

[personal profile] zingerella wrote about etiquette rules for visiting Government House, which include reminders not to molest the hat rack.

[personal profile] sid asked about turns of phrase in English that have survived well past the things they refer to, such as "lock stock & barrel".

[personal profile] licht has written Waffle Dos & Don'ts, which a) amuses me far more than perhaps is necessary (Waffles may bring about world peace!) and b) makes me think of [livejournal.com profile] bubusquared because of her constant assurance that Belgian Waffles do not come from Belgium. (I assure you, if you don't have a Melle in your life, you are missing out.)

[personal profile] adsartha wrote about migraine triggers.

[personal profile] marina wrote about disability-related issues in Israel, discussing accessibility legislation and universities and the IDF.

[personal profile] shanaqui wrote about Health Anxiety/Hypochondria.

I've really liked pretty much every episode reaction I've read to The Impossible Astronaut. Here is boji's, which I liked a lot.

[personal profile] pipisafoat wrote about shopping for clothing when genderqueer.

I made a post a few days ago inviting people to basically ask me to talk about disability history FOREVER. But it is also open to other people to talk about disability history forever. Please feel free to leave prompts or write responses!

[I have Dreamwidth invites if people would like them.]

Links!

Apr. 27th, 2011 09:20 am
trouble: N.B.: There will be very few dates in this history (history dates)
[personal profile] pinesandmaples: A Lady in Her Bath [NSFW picture]

440 years ago, this woman let M. Clouet into her personal space to create a memento for the family. Chances are her husband hung this portrait in his study so he could admire his wife and her virtues. And by "virtues", I don't actually mean "boobs." The admiring husband of 1571 would be interested in the fruit of his wife's womb before her bust came into the picture.


[personal profile] berangere posted in [community profile] archaeology: Legislation : preventive archaeology, which answers "I would really like to learn more about archeology in cities. They're building a new library here and they're letting the archaeologists in to do some work before they start building. What do archaeologists look for, and what's it like with a really short turn around time?" for France & Japan.

[personal profile] raven wrote a Cordelia-centered Vorkosigan fic which I quite liked: Fic:: Walking Away From Omelas [Vorkosigan]. There's so much good Cordelia-centered Vorkosigan fic, I'm beginning to wonder if my issues with the series were more the time & place I read it in.

[personal profile] nanila posted in [community profile] multibeautiful (a DW community for picspams of beautiful people of colour): Tia Carrera, reminding me that I miss Relic Hunter.

[personal profile] adsartha is writing a series on migraines. Part Two is Migraine Myths.

[personal profile] crankyoldman did a post up about beginning sewing: Sewing and Cosplay Week: Beginner Sewing. I am noting this for later. (via [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith, for all your randomly interesting linking needs.)

I am loving [personal profile] silver_spotted's posts about reading history books. You can see them here.

Today I am feeling that all the energy inside of me cannot possibly be contained by my skin. This is a very uncomfortable feeling. And I am going back to the archives in the hopes that there will be fewer people on the good microfilm machines because I got quite ill yesterday from the bad ones. So many things to look at. I'm trying not to be distracted by the trespassing & the cows.
trouble: "Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the tooth fairy.  There's no such place." (Canada is a myth)
A friend was looking for a list of Canadian-centric blogs.

Although I lost my Big Folder of Canadian Blogs in the Google Chrome Crash of This Summer (woe), here is a short list from my feed reader. I will try and generate another list in a week or so.

Read more... )

Update(s)

Aug. 24th, 2010 12:53 am
trouble: The 11th Doctor in his fez with a mop.  "Clean all the things?" (the doctor cleans all the things)
I keep posting things with the intention of posting them locked and then forgetting. This is not clever.

Getting Rid of All The Things Update

Clothes! )

book! )

And that is where things are now. I'm very content.

Here are some links to things:
[personal profile] meloukhia sent me this: Titanium, from A Very Official Blog By An Expert: Infoes You Can Trust. I expect reference papers to come in any day now with links to this blog.

[personal profile] oursin's linkspams always have interesting stuff. Here is the latest (or at least it was the latest when I opened it, who knows by now). Oursin is awesome and lovely, and my one goal in this lifetime is to host a Histor-tea at WisCon so I can have tea with her and some other people.

Check out Susanna Fraser's website, which, as the ladies at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books pointed out, is the best author website ever.

Speaking of which, The Politics of Desert Romances is up at Teach Me Tonight, which is an academic blog that writes about romance novels. This particular entry is about the tropes and the like in Desert Sheik Romance Novels. I found it a bit more readable than some of their other academic stuff. (This is likely because I am not an English Graduate Student, and I don't have time to read romance novels anymore, woe.)

I recently started reading the Paladin Advocacy Blog, which I only learned of when they started following my history-based twitter account [@historyagenda - it is very dull and full of occasional love poems to Archivists]. (No, I don't know why that one and not my one where I actually talk about disability advocacy. But I'm not objecting.) Their agenda is:

Lack of effective public policy and political will has allowed Canadian institutions at all levels to deny Canadians with disabilities equal access to full citizenship as guaranteed in our Charter. Despite what our politicians tell us and the rest of the world, systemic discrimination is an everyday reality in Canada for most of us living with a disability.

The way to right this wrong is through real advocacy, political will and law.

The Paladin Advocacy League ( PAL ) is a recently formed, not-for-profit society which advocates for public policy changes which will provide Canadians with disabilities equal access to the equality provisions of our Charter. Actions speak louder than words.


They're updating a bit sporadically right now, so I don't know how long-term they will be.

Honestly, I can't wait for classes to start up again, if for no other reason than the library will be open till midnight again. I need my evening study space, damn it!

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