Solsticetacular.

[bodlon]

Solstice this year was action-packed. My dayjob hours did their traditional seasonal weekend invasion (long day Friday, off Saturday, full day Sunday), and that dovetailed with other plans: Trance Dance on Sunday night, Monday night was the lunar eclipse, and then I was out at the park at dawn on Tuesday celebrating the Alban Arthan with a fire and a friend (and her dog). (Note: It could be a failing on my dictionary’s part, but I’m pretty sure that “gaeaf,” not “arthan” is the Welsh word for winter.) After that, it was all early gifts with the household since schedules are bad for all of us to be around on the 25th.

Oh, and I built Stonehenge on my desk.

So, you know, that was fun. (Also, thanks Mouse!)

~*~

- I don’t celebrate Christmas, but I love this video of Team TARDIS singing at a piano more than words can say.

- Wikileaks is being quoted more in the German press than Spiegel. I’m not even sure how to process that. It’s going to get interesting, though, especially now that people are starting to notice that not all of the data is good, and asking just why and how this information was out of hand in the first place. You know. The questions nobody was asking because everybody was busy freaking out, calling Dr. Evil Assange a terrorist, telling students not to discuss Wikileaks, and doing news stories about companies dropping business ties with them. Not to discredit Wikileaks per se, but few things are universally what we paint them as, and that much data all in one place is going to have a lot of rough in it as well as diamonds.

- Like, for example, this one. (Note: not a real Wikileak cable.)

- Oh, and I’m Spartacus.

- Who’s spying on you? Hey FBI! I’m not wearing any pants!

- I really want to read Radioactive.

- Forget the ridiculous shock-horror at gays and straights showering together (aside: can we please grow up and acknowledge that a) this is the dumbest non-issue ever if you’ve ever, say, gone to a gym, b) our allies serving with us in Iraq and Afghanistan have openly GLBT people serving in their ranks, and c) get over yourself, you’re not that attractive, straight boy) and turn your attention to this possible side-effect of DADT’s repeal. That’s right: non-discrimination may open the way to ROTC programs at better schools.

- OK GO make me want to make toast. Also, their business is more than just music.

- Singing mice. Aside: what’s the point of all of these excellent transgenic pets if I can’t have glowing rats? I AM LOOKING AT YOU, SCIENCE.

- If I didn’t inherently distrust anything that even faintly resembles a browser hijack, I would so install this.

- Haley Barbour thinks segregation wasn’t so bad. If Haley Barbour ever asks to use my bathroom, I will enjoy telling him that I don’t serve his kind. And by “his kind” I mean smug white governors who are old enough to know better.

- In slightly better news, the UN has come around on that whole killing gays being bad thing. That this even warrants discussion is ridiculous.

- I still can’t decide if this parking lot is the best thing ever or makes me want to cry. Both, probably.

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Comments

[contrarywise]

STOOONNNEHEEEENNNNNGGGE!!!

Mmmm, toast... Also, the outtakes for "White Knuckles" are hilarious, and the official vid is awesome. Hee, surprise!goat!

[bodlon]

It is in serious danger of being trampled by creatures of diminutive size, I'll admit.

I had not seen the outtakes! Goat!