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cblj_backupGood morning guys! You know what time it is. It's time for Radio Free Monday! Let's dive in, shall we?
Ways To Give
So then A TORNADO touched down in Central Oregon. That kind of shit never happened when I lived there. Fortunately no one is injured, but there's been a lot of property damage and the Red Cross (Willamette Chapter, Marion County Fund) is collecting monetary donations and looking for cleanup volunteers.
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frenchroast linked me to reannon, whose car has died on her, leaving her to choose between rent, car repair, and her son's birthday (and of course Christmas). She's accepting donations and you can find more information here.
FictionAlley, a Harry Potter fandom archive and discussion forum, has been doing a fundraiser since September to cover their site hosting fees for 2010/2011. Fundraising site Razoo will match up to $1000 in donations to FictionAlley during December, which means that if they bring in $1000 in donations, their hosting fees for 2011 will be covered. They've already raised nearly $800 and are giving a wristband to every non-anonymous donor until they run out. More explanation here and you can donate via the links here.
nirethak's fundraiser for Luis, linked two weeks ago, is still going on! There's a yarn sale over on Ravelry, ending soon!
Super triggery ahead, discussion of rape and survivorhood. Without getting too far into Wikileaks (which I know is important but find deathly boring) and the Assange rape allegations, Tiger Beatdown is trying to draw attention to the way rape is treated in media and society, and organized a protest on twitter (which got trolled pretty badly). They have a a fundraising call out for donations to anti-rape organisations like RAINN. If you're looking to make some end-of-year donations, RAINN is a pretty good place to give.
mcgonagalls_cat let me know about the World Food Program Quiz: for every person who takes the quiz, funding for a hot meal will be donated to the World Food Program. It only takes a few minutes!
Fans Contacting Fans:
holli is desperately seeking a roommate! She's in the DC area and if you're looking for a fan-friendly place to live (with a Patrick Stewart standup in the dining room, so I'm told) you can reach her at hollimichele at gmail.
Be Aware!
Amazon.com thinks it knows what kind of books you should read, especially what kind of porn you should read. If you've bought an ebook they disapprove of, they'll come into your Kindle and remove it. And if you call to get a refund, their customer service reps will scold you for your taste in reading material. Way to be, Amazon. I am so glad I quit you.
And Finally...
Some fun stuff to end the post with!
Jennifer turned up some frankly rather adorable amateur Shelock Holmes fanfic in the British Medical Journal, of all places.
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romanaorfred notifies us that we can now breed male mice with each other and have created a sliding scale of the universe. I use "we" in the loosest possible sense here. I don't take much credit. :D
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. :) You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com (PMs are kind of a bad way to reach me; email or comments are much preferable). If you're not sure how best to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help.
Ways To Give
So then A TORNADO touched down in Central Oregon. That kind of shit never happened when I lived there. Fortunately no one is injured, but there's been a lot of property damage and the Red Cross (Willamette Chapter, Marion County Fund) is collecting monetary donations and looking for cleanup volunteers.
frenchroast linked me to reannon, whose car has died on her, leaving her to choose between rent, car repair, and her son's birthday (and of course Christmas). She's accepting donations and you can find more information here. FictionAlley, a Harry Potter fandom archive and discussion forum, has been doing a fundraiser since September to cover their site hosting fees for 2010/2011. Fundraising site Razoo will match up to $1000 in donations to FictionAlley during December, which means that if they bring in $1000 in donations, their hosting fees for 2011 will be covered. They've already raised nearly $800 and are giving a wristband to every non-anonymous donor until they run out. More explanation here and you can donate via the links here.
nirethak's fundraiser for Luis, linked two weeks ago, is still going on! There's a yarn sale over on Ravelry, ending soon! Super triggery ahead, discussion of rape and survivorhood. Without getting too far into Wikileaks (which I know is important but find deathly boring) and the Assange rape allegations, Tiger Beatdown is trying to draw attention to the way rape is treated in media and society, and organized a protest on twitter (which got trolled pretty badly). They have a a fundraising call out for donations to anti-rape organisations like RAINN. If you're looking to make some end-of-year donations, RAINN is a pretty good place to give.
mcgonagalls_cat let me know about the World Food Program Quiz: for every person who takes the quiz, funding for a hot meal will be donated to the World Food Program. It only takes a few minutes!Fans Contacting Fans:
holli is desperately seeking a roommate! She's in the DC area and if you're looking for a fan-friendly place to live (with a Patrick Stewart standup in the dining room, so I'm told) you can reach her at hollimichele at gmail. Be Aware!
Amazon.com thinks it knows what kind of books you should read, especially what kind of porn you should read. If you've bought an ebook they disapprove of, they'll come into your Kindle and remove it. And if you call to get a refund, their customer service reps will scold you for your taste in reading material. Way to be, Amazon. I am so glad I quit you.
And Finally...
Some fun stuff to end the post with!
Jennifer turned up some frankly rather adorable amateur Shelock Holmes fanfic in the British Medical Journal, of all places.
From the Department Of Awesome And Terrifying Science,
romanaorfred notifies us that we can now breed male mice with each other and have created a sliding scale of the universe. I use "we" in the loosest possible sense here. I don't take much credit. :DAnd this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. :) You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com (PMs are kind of a bad way to reach me; email or comments are much preferable). If you're not sure how best to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help.
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Date: 2010-12-20 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-20 02:52 pm (UTC)I keep my ebooks on my old Palm Pilot that does not have net access. I download them onto my home PC then port them to the Palm via the hot sync cable. Terribly 20th century, I know. But NO ONE gets to (a) tell me what I can and cannot read or (b) takes back something I've purchased against my wishes.
I had enough censorship at school thankyouverymuch.
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:10 pm (UTC)I had hopes for the Nokia N810, but the emulator wasn't very robust, and everything was in a virtual partition, so I couldn't find where to store the books.
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:24 pm (UTC)I really don't want everything I own to be web-enabled. Nor do I want my music, photos, ebooks, address book, email, etc. all on one mobile device which functions at the whim of a phone company.
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Date: 2010-12-20 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-20 06:38 pm (UTC)I don't know if you're interested, but somewhere I have a great essay written by Rex Stout about how Watson was probably a pen name for a woman. I also have a story that I think was written by DL Sayers herself (I'd have to check) about Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey meeting. :D
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Date: 2010-12-20 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-20 07:03 pm (UTC)http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/Watson_was_a_woman.htm
(Rex Stout, in case you're unfamiliar, was a mystery writer in the mid-20th century; that essay is pretty misogynist but bear in mind he was very dry, and it's not meant to be taken seriously.)
AND I scanned in the other one for convenience! Here is the story itself:
http://pics.livejournal.com/copperbadge/pic/001qpqxd
I will check the author when I get home. I'm pretty sure Sayers (who wrote the LPW stories) wrote it, tho. Both Sayers and Stout were heavily influenced by Conan Doyle.
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:03 pm (UTC)Modest Needs, one of my favorite charities, is a great place to donate right now as funds are being matched (that's matched funds raised AND given away).
Modest Needs takes small donations and then helps people who just need something modest. For example, a family lives on a very tight budget, but then there's a sudden car repair. Modest Needs can help keep them on budget.
The link that explains the funds matching is here: http://www.modestneeds.org/donation/appeal/
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-22 03:01 pm (UTC)i'd actually only gotten about halfway through it when i commented to you. it was actually much... cooler before i got to the Lovecraftian parts.
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Date: 2010-12-23 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-20 06:07 pm (UTC)also lol the British Medical Journal publishing Holmes fanfiction. Now I've seen everything.
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Date: 2010-12-20 08:39 pm (UTC)Thanks for the links, Sam! You're amazing!
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Date: 2010-12-20 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-21 01:16 pm (UTC)When some of my readers began checking their Kindle archives for books of mine they’d purchased on Amazon, they found them missing from their archives.
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Date: 2010-12-20 08:40 pm (UTC)Kindles are one of those things I like the idea of, for other people (personally it's not worth the expense, my local library is too well-stocked for me to buy more than a few books a year). Now I don't know how to temper my recommendation of it to people without implying they're gonna buy hardcore porn. :/
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Date: 2010-12-20 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-20 09:58 pm (UTC)It is really depressing how easily misinformation is taken up and repeated unexamined by supposed journalists. Reminded me of the Star Simpson case, in terms of how frequently easily disproven untruths managed to make it into reporting on the case.
Update re: RAINN (Via Tiger Beatdown)
Date: 2010-12-20 10:16 pm (UTC)That quote come from the tail end of this post (http://tigerbeatdown.com/2010/12/18/mooreandme-four-days-outside-the-tower-im-scared-im-tired-im-crying-and-i-wont-stop/).
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Date: 2010-12-21 01:35 am (UTC)/ponies up
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