Since badgerbag is busy livetweeting the debate, I'm totally going to steal her excellent link to an intriguing architectural criticism post re: Yale's Rudolph building, informed by the critic's experience with mobility impairment. A little taste: I have literally rolled (in a wheelchair), limped and crutched in many “masterworks” of modern architecture. Here is my not-so-brilliant critical...

OK,  Institute Fellows and dear readers. As you know, here at the institute Schaudenfreude is a Way Of Life, but sometimes better is the distilled wonder of the internet Keruffle, as it generally, by the time it becomes apparent to the institute's trained researchers, become a narrative of its own. Or you can stumble on it midstream, which has its own challenges. To wit: I present the following,...

Reportage from the left is beginning that the regime and FEMA are blacking out access to, reporting and images of the worst areas of devastation -- and FEMA's pathetic, disorganized and inadequate responses. The first place I saw this was on the LJ "View from A Broad. So I looked up the reports in elsewheres. As well, Liz Henry's blog (her efforts and experience in Texas with the...

badgerbag shares this link: INCITE! is taking donations here "to help low-income women of color and their families evacuate safely if need be, stay safe for the duration of the evacuation, and return to the city as soon as possible so as not to fall prey to the pushout that has kept so many folks from being able to return to New Orleans since Katrina."

I think it was badgerbag who wondered when we'd get the first live-blogged account of someone in labor. Liveblogging? That's so 2007! Twittering your delivery , otoh... (P.S. to anyone wondering: no to both.)

1) Had a brilliant time in the British Museum on Friday afternoon with badgerbag 2) Had a great time at my brother's where I discovered that my 15-year old niece LIKES the Stephanie Meyers books (and has in fact read them twice!). I told her I'd have to disinherit her and she asked if I'd like to sneer at the rest of her book collection first. Nice response! It's good to see she is developing...

badgerbag called this a "totally accurate fashion meme!", but I have to say, I have my doubts... Flattering, though. Your result for The Fashion Style Test... Catwalk God(ess) [Flamboyant Original Deliberate Sexy] You know fashion inside out but you're far from being its slave. To you fashion is what you decide to wear. You've got great, if unconventional, taste and plenty...

Fairly accurate, though my Hawaiian shirts don't really fit any of the questions; apparently they are outside the ken of the fashionista who made the quiz. Your result for The Fashion Style Test... Librarian 37% Flamboyance, 45% Originality, 42% Deliberateness, 30% Sexiness [Tasteful Conventional Random Prissy] You don't pay too much attention to fashion and far be it from you to spend...

Thanks to badgerbag a video of humans punching aliens . It's got quite a bit of talky-face which is usually my definition of a failed video, but on the other hand - it's got humans punching aliens. Over and over again. You know - Star Trek, Doctor Who, Farscape, Galaxy Quest, BSG. Punching the alien.

Ok, so I've been putting some thought into this, now that my life is settling down somewhat, and I've mostly got my voice back. Most of these are going to require some thought and research on my part, as well as potential panelists: Someone requested a riff on the Women in Hard SF panel done at Wiscon this year and provided a link: http://badgerbag.livejournal.com/119313.html I haven't had a chance...