crossposted to darksumomo From Offbeat Bride via Kotaku and solarbird . Anli & Laura's Lesbian Gamer Geek Wedding The offbeat bride : Anli, data analyst Her offbeat partner : Laura, public servant Location & date of wedding : The Old Stone House, NSW Australia — 5 September 2009 What made our wedding offbeat : We wanted a ceremony that reflected our geeky, romantic...

crossposted to roselinedcoffin From Offbeat Bride via Kotaku and solarbird . Anli & Laura's Lesbian Gamer Geek Wedding The offbeat bride : Anli, data analyst Her offbeat partner : Laura, public servant Location & date of wedding : The Old Stone House, NSW Australia — 5 September 2009 What made our wedding offbeat : We wanted a ceremony that reflected our geeky...

I’m pretty sure that if I arrive at work only marginally less damp than I would have done without an umbrella, I might need to think about getting a new umbrella. My pants are wet from the knees down. Yay! But at least I have on good warm socks and a cup of tea is steeping at my elbow. Meanwhile I blew the weekend playing way more of our game Unwell Mel than I probably should have done, but hey...

http://solarbird.livejournal.com/885364.html?view=4812916

solarbird gives some more great info here . Included are seven bank failures, dollar bear news, inflated oil prices. Links galore.

solarbird has once again passed along a couple of wonderful posts from Karl Denninger. In the first, he suggests it's time to waterboard those responsible for covering up the vast extent of our current unreported financial crisis: All these new "proposals" are doing is attempting to once again screw the American public, turning them (once again!) into debtors and renters while lying...

Most of this weekend I’ve spent catching up: with new movies, with balancing my checkbook, with getting my book review posts written, with getting my tallies of new books purchased tallied, and such. Friday night, spazzkat , solarbird , jennygriffee , and I all went to see Zombieland , which was highly entertaining. It’s a different flavor of funny than Shaun of the Dead...

... this is a plug for the Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel , whose pre-paid room charge is only $75 Canadian (plus taxes, of course, but still it comes in under $100 Canadian/night) for an upgraded class of room. Since I do have some readers from the southern side of the Smith&Wesson Line, and in light of the new American FTC rules coming in (as advised, here , by solarbird ), I must provide...

In response to this post from solarbird : The FTC evidently has a new version of their policy on endorsements in advertising , revised to account for product reviews online. The meat of the controversial bit is as follows (for the whole policy in question, read p. 75-81, examples 7-9 are the ones relevant to "new media"): When there exists a connection between the endorser and the seller...

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1340854.html - most popular pop culture references... debating what I think needs to go there http://solarbird.livejournal.com/878246.html - no one leaves innocent (pun intended?) http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/reproducing_key.html - the demise of red neck everywhere... keys reproduced from pictures of keys