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Happy birthday, faanboy and neongraal

Suffer the little children

Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis charged with failing to protect clergy abuse victims

Disimprovement engineering

Livejournal is one of the many computerized operations in which the scariest word is "upgrade." There appears to have been a new one, and I am seeing complaints. Perhaps because I never went along with the Friends Page upyoursgrade, the only problem I have noticed is that lj no longer recognizes its own lj-user symbol if I post directly to it, so I am now originating my birthday posts on Dreamwidth, the way I do all my others. As always, when lj malfunctions, I blame unprotected contact with Facebook.

Two nifty writers

Kit Reed & Max Gladstone converse.

Thanx to Tor.com.

Tulips and degrees

An immodest proposal from Scott Alexander.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Embrace the Power of And

Jeb's Brother's War: Crime or Blunder?

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Sports medicine

Korean professional gamer requires surgery.

Thanx to andrewducker

Beyond Reader's Digest

Pop culture in pictograms