Feeling Overwhelmed?

Maybe limiting the time you spend on emails will help.
Keeping your desk in order will doubtless help life run a bit more smoothly, as well.

Filed under: A Stitch in Time, Required Reading

Sarcasm Abounds

Please, go ye forth and read Rainbow Girl’s guide on how to victimize yourself before others can victimize you! Or at least, her guide to dealing with websites that give what can only with charity be described as misguided advice.
For women only. Because we all know men are the only perpetrators of violence, [...]

Filed under: Required Reading, Righteous Outrage, , , , ,

Bone-chilling, Heartwarming

The best writing can stretch one’s mind, eliciting emotions that express the full range of the human experience. Here are two such pieces:
From Bitch, PhD, a lamentation on the subject of popular racism in America today.
And when you need to cleanse your mind from the outrage that article will surely enflame, please read Bongi’s [...]

Filed under: Required Reading, Righteous Outrage

Three That Made Me Think

It’s been two years since Hurricane Katrina.  Read what one survivor has to say.
How the so-called old media can make the internet work for them.
I know how this feels all too well.

Filed under: Required Reading

SCDS

*Sudden Computer Death Syndrome.  It’s what happens when your hard drive and your logic board die at the same time, so that not only can’t it start up from the built-in hard drive, it can’t recognize any external bits and pieces, making booting from a different drive impossible.  So now I’m in the process of [...]

Filed under: Required Reading

“This is What Fundamentalism Looks Like”

This article is long, but well worth reading. The comments are also worthwhile.
So please, if you have time, do go read it. I’d like to discuss it further, but all my efforts toward writing coherently are going elsewhere tonight, so I’ll let the article stand on its own.

Filed under: Required Reading