From Twitter 11-21-2010

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Random Monday Linkdump

Seriously, people. Too many tabs.

- Have a fascinating editorial about pagans and hunting. While I’m not currently a hunter or an angler, this is very much the thought I’m having about trying these things out.

- Ways in which the TSA is making us safer include leaving a bladder cancer survivor covered in his own urine, making their own agents miserable, failing to have a clear chain of command or policy, exposing a traveler’s breasts, and forcing a flight attendant to remove her prosthetic breast (note: they’re apparently working on updating rules about flight crews). Shakesville gives more rundown, coyotegoth offers some resources, and elusis has a lot of really brilliant things to say.

- With apologies to my favorite canning blog: I’d forgotten that decorative (motherfucking) gourd season could be quite so…phallic.

- James Moran takes on the great scammy mire that is Amazon Studios.

- Holy crap, this pie. WANT.

- A few months after the Gulf oil spill, the people of Grand Isle, Louisiana are still suffering.

- Mad Poet’s Perfumery Menace is code for awesome. I really want to pick up some samples soon, especially The Secondhand Bookshop.

- 79 countries have won a vote to remove sexual orientation from the list of reasons for which it is unacceptable to execute someone. Thanks, guys. That makes me feel a lot better about everything ever.

- Ancient whistles of death and haunting conchs.

- Publishers Weekly asks, How Are You Observing National Short Story Week?

- Maxwell’s demon demonstration turns information into energy. Rad.

- My friend Jean Kang clued me in to this amazing project to animate Neil Gaiman’s story “The Price.” Make a pledge at Kickstarter to support the project!

- Don’t forget to support Dogboy & Justine!

- Mark Twain’s autobiography is selling so fast the publisher is having to print more. This is awesome, and I can’t wait to be part of the problem.

- The Pope has reportedly said that condom use is okay for male prostitutes in order to prevent HIV, but with a lot of hemming and hawing, qualifiers, and I’m told he’s still known for restricting condom use any time fertility is a factor (e.g. HIV status discordant couples, any time women have sex with men, etc). I’m inclined to say this isn’t so much a step in the right direction as an awkward fumble.

- It shames me to admit I kind of want to see this.

- An artisan cheesemaker is butting heads with the FDA. In general, I’m a proponent of the locovore movement. While I’m terrible at making it happen, I want to eat things produced locally, sustainably, and which are minimally processed. When processed, I want to know that the processing and safety protocols aren’t just as unhealthy as (and that they don’t cause uglier) foodborne illnesses. Even so, I am skeptical of a Vast FDA Conspiracy, and am not a fan of listeria. Give me real cheese, but do it safely.

- I flaked entirely to link to their fundraising raffle, but the Carl Brandon Society is Freaking Awesome. Support them.

- Lots of stuff about the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, and Series Six.

This post has been mirrored from Christian A. Young's Dimlight Archive. To see it in its original format, visit dimlightarchive.com

Musical Guessing Games!

Stolen from dremiel and count_to_seven, here are the first two lines of of the first fifteen songs offered by iTunes when I went all shuffly (exceptions made for instrumentals and one song in Welsh that I'm not competent enough to transcribe accurately). Guess the song without Googling and win...adulation. Or something.

1)
We climb molten rock
Sweating, bleeding, we can't stop

2)
In your room time stands still
Or moves to your will
("In Your Room," Depeche Mode, identified by shiverelectric)

3)
Cake icing and decorating set
Special offer

4)
Light beams from outer space
Drifting to your satellite

5)
Octopus. I love you. It hurt.
I can't think of another animal I'd want on my T-shirt.

6)
There's an army coming, screaming out at its rebirth
There's an army coming, hellfire back here on Earth

7)
Watching all the insects march along
Seem to know just right where they belong
("All The Love In The World," NIN, identified by escherzo)

8)
We are so fragile, advertising lies that are whiter than yours
We are so fragile, they could give us a war just to keep us amused

9)
Rockin Rock'n'Roll Radio, Let's Go!
Rockin Rock'n'Roll Radio, Let's Go!
("Do You Remember Rock'n'Roll Radio" by The Ramones, identified by dremiel)

10)
You can go out dancing
And I'll write about you dancing without you

11)
The smog is rolling in, the tide is high
Diane's as fat can be, aye captain aye

12)
Day after day I'm waiting and I lie for you, I'd die for you
And it makes me laugh to think that I ever heard you say I love you

13)
It's a crime to fall in love
Heart and mind and soul in love
("It's A Crime" by the Magnetic Fields, identified by dremiel)

14)
Never fell in love until I fell in love with you
Never knew what a good time was until I had a good time with you
("Radio" by Rancid, identified by kel_reilly)

15)
Ar ol llond poced o fadarch roes ti'r ty ar dan
Doedd pethau ddim r'un fath ers ith rieni arwahanu

Bonus Track)
Some say the savior first lived during the thirty years or so
between BC and AD two-thousand years ago
("Night of the Living Christ" by Schaffer the Darklord, identified by minionjoe)