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MagCloud
enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and they take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
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at 9:13 AM on June 23, 2008
(43 comments)
Labor of Love
: when a married couple wanted to start a family and the wife was unable to conceive or carry because of previous surgeries, her husband, who is transgendered and legally male, stopped taking his testosterone and was inseminated.
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at 6:21 AM on March 20, 2008
(118 comments)
For the fourth single off their second album, My Chemical Romance shot a World War II mini-movie
^ that was turned into the video for
The Ghost of You. Fast-forward to MCR's third album and
a fan-made animated storybook video that continues the story from The Ghost of You video, incorporating the plot from the concept album
Welcome to the Black Parade^, and set to the song Mama. Fans are sometimes pretty awesome.
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at 10:55 AM on March 14, 2008
(26 comments)
Build your wild self
using a flash game from the New York zoos and aquarium and the wildlife conservation society.
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at 8:28 AM on October 23, 2007
(18 comments)
VisibleVote08.com
On Thursday, August 9th, at 9PM EST, the
LOGO television network along with the
Human Rights Campaign are going to host a televised forum with some of the leading Democratic presidential candidates for the discussion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trangendered issues. According to the network, if you are unable to see the program on cable, it will be available to you live via the special website. And as of August 2nd, surfers are invited to submit questions to be asked of the candidates live.
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at 8:13 PM on August 1, 2007
(27 comments)
FanLib's
mission is "to bring fan fiction out of the shadows and into the limelight." But mostly FanLib is just a multi-fandom fanfiction archive seeking to make money off of the fans through ad space.
Not all fans are happy about this. Does this matter? Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program
thinks so.
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at 3:27 PM on May 22, 2007
(58 comments)
Islam Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
"After listening to several international physicians, they pronounced the sensational decision to classify the custom of female genital mutilation (FGM) as punishable aggression and crime against humanity. As a result, the custom can no longer be practiced by Muslims. Now awareness of this decision has to be spread in the 33 affected countries."
[+ WHO] and
[+ wp]
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at 11:27 AM on December 4, 2006
(80 comments)
The Urban Pantheist
is the livejournal of Jef Taylor, where he works out articles for his two zines:
The Urban Pantheist: Loving Nature while Living in the City and
Urban Nature Walk. The LJ became a bit more as he embarked on a project called
365 Urban Species, where he'll post a current photo and short article about a different living thing found in the city each day.
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at 6:25 PM on July 16, 2006
(10 comments)
Dr. Peggy McIntosh
wrote
a paper in 1989 titled
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies (later released as
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack), which she wrote because, "...have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious." Since then the lesson she sought to teach has inspired other lists, such as
The Male Privilege and now
The Daily Effect of Straight Privilege.
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at 2:17 PM on July 10, 2006
(130 comments)
Under Age Text?
"Former senior public servant Nick Gill was sentenced to 14 days' jail, suspended on the rising of the court, and fined $3000 after being found guilty of having 66 stories, featuring mostly young boys, on his desktop computer." All text. There were no images to found. Australian fans of Harry Potter should probably rethink that slash masterpiece, and toss out their copies of Lolita and the latest VC Andrews novels.
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at 5:27 PM on April 8, 2006
(76 comments)
Art Rage:
An unfortunate name for a really fun program. From the site: "ArtRage is all about playing with paint without the mess, and having fun in the process. You can paint your own image from a blank canvas to completed work, or load in a picture to trace and have the tools pick their colours for you as you paint over it." Friday fun that can keep you occupied all weekend. Enjoy.
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at 2:37 PM on August 26, 2005
(9 comments)
The Dark Side Is The Best Sauce
I'm not sure if the cartoonist has their own personal LiveJournal, but the one for the comic is rather adorable and funny. It's just a handful of strips thus far, and they're terribly spoilery for Star Wars: Episode III. But still worth a quick look.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 8:33 PM on June 13, 2005
(22 comments)
Fandom is,
at the core, neither good or bad. It simply is. [+]
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at 8:15 AM on February 16, 2005
(17 comments)
Drug-resistant HIV strain alarms officials
Speculation abounds about the 40something year old man, but doctors think that he had sex with someone who had AIDS and had already developed a resistance to drugs, and then his own crystal meth use created an unkown strain in him. [
NYT article]
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at 11:34 PM on February 11, 2005
(45 comments)
Playground Finder
is a community service created by Ben and Suzette Hosken. The parents of two young children, they saw a need for a service providing details of playgrounds within their local area as well as when travelling. This idea grew into Playground Finder.
[found while eyeballing loobylu]
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at 12:26 PM on February 1, 2005
(8 comments)
Selkie Goes to the Airport
"This morning, I arrived at the airport with an hour to make my flight. I kissed my fiancee, wiped off the tears, and queued up for the TSA checkpoint with my laptop out, my shoes off and my identification in my hand. There were three people in front of me; I had plenty of time." It goes down hill from there.
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at 7:19 PM on November 30, 2004
(99 comments)
Southern Conservativism explained from the inside.
"I get very antsy when I see this entire election outcome being blamed on radical conservatism or on ignorance or stupidity. Because really when people talk about "radical" conservativism, what they really mean is Southern conservativism, specifically the kind that originated in the Southern Baptist church in the late 70's/early 80's. And that makes me unhappy. I am an ex-Southern conservative." An interesting read coming out of the election fallout.
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at 4:19 PM on November 6, 2004
(131 comments)
My son, Peter
has always loved to play hide and seek. In fact, he loves it so much that he will wake me up in the middle of the night to play. The only problem is that Peter has been dead for eight years. This website documents the hell I've lived and continue to live every night.
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at 6:59 PM on October 28, 2004
(29 comments)
No Pity. No Shame. No Silence.
"I wondered for a moment what it would look like if just for one day, everyone who had survived sexual violence were visible as a survivor, if we could actually see the extent of it, if we could all know just how very not-alone we are. I wondered how angry and sad it would make me to know. I wondered how much power there might be in the truth."
LJ user, misia decided to out herself as a survivor of sexual violence, and offer a place where people could stand up and become visible as survivors as well. The results are a compelling and haunting read.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 10:24 AM on August 3, 2004
(60 comments)
Friendeavor
Helps you find a local activity partner. Though no matter how I searched, no one will help you bury a body.
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at 8:49 AM on May 18, 2004
(9 comments)
The Red Hat Society
With an inspired purchase of a red fedora and a reading of the poem
Warning by Jenny Joseph,
one woman created what is fast becoming a movement around the world for women over fifty.
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at 2:53 PM on May 11, 2004
(41 comments)
Pfix Pfizer:
Pfizer, maker of several drugs including Lipitor used to lower cholesterol, has launched a lawsuit against Canadian web sites selling its drugs or knock-offs at a lower cost to Americans. They claim that it's a matter of safety for their users, and that costs are for the insurance companies to quibble. However many Minnesota seniors have fired back that it's a matter of sales, and are seeking to 'pfix pfizer' as they are unable to afford some of these life-saving medications. [more inside]
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at 1:32 PM on April 13, 2004
(17 comments)
Donors Choose
"Public school teachers use Donors Choose to propose resources for their students. Concerned individuals like you can then select a proposal to fund."
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at 7:57 AM on March 22, 2004
(14 comments)
Create your own little cityscape,
using the drag and drop feature offered, and enjoy a little Friday time-wasting fun. Add lots of little pixel people and create your own blackout block party.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 1:25 PM on August 15, 2003
(4 comments)
Hello, my name
is 'Godless Goddess Girl // roasting marshmallows // in the holy fires.' How creative can you get on a
name tag?
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at 7:53 PM on March 21, 2002
(6 comments)
