Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-5-2009

[andrewducker]

• 4th Edition character support for the iPhone
  DnD character sheet for the iPhone. Very neatly done, and works in any web browser. Takes character files from the WOTC character generator.
  (tags: dnd iphone character gaming 4e)
• TransLondon boycotts Pride 2009
  With what looks like very good cause.
  (tags: London lgbt pride politics gay transgender)
• 25 things I've learnt about sex over the last quarter century
  Well, not _me_, obviously. I haven't been having sex for a quarter of a century...
  (tags: sex life advice)
• Stem cells used to restore sight for corneal disease sufferers
  Two of the three patients were legally blind in the treated eye; they can now read big letters on the eye chart. The third could read the top few rows of the chart but is now able to pass the vision test for a driving license.
  (tags: medicine science stemcells)
• Bad Dragon
  Not safe for work unless you work in porn. With dragons.
  (tags: sextoys dragons)
• Here is why I wasn't going to vote Green
  Because, frankly, their science is awful.
  (tags: politics science europe green)
• Psychodrama, Surrealism, and the Archipelago of Weird
  Fascinating essay on subcultures and their invisibility to the central block of culture. Only funnier and better written than that.
  (tags: communication community fandom geekery philosophy psychology)

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Wow, the Green Party over there looks pretty crazy. Here, they are largely irrelevant because they have essentially no chance of being elected to anything beyond the smallest and least important local positions. Are they more powerful in the UK?

[andrewducker]

Not really.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

However they are looking to make major gains in places like France on the weekend. I wonder if their policies are Europe-wide or if Green manifestos vary markedly from country to country.

The actual answers to the science questions from all the parties make for very interesting (and in some cases, worrying) reading: http://www.layscience.net/node/581

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Good set of links today BTW. I normally only pick out one or two but have now read most of today's ones :)

[andrewducker]

Excluding, one assumes, the character sheet one :->

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Yup. RPGs and iPhone = double the interest fail in Simon's world :)

[andrewducker]

That's what I figured. It's not actually of any use to anyone not playing D&D 4th Edition _and_ using the official character generator.

[andrewducker]

And thank you :->

Argh my eyes....

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Just how did you find a website selling "replica" mythical beast genitalia intended for human use!

More importantly, what would the medical name for this be...?

Re: Argh my eyes....

[andrewducker]

A friend of mine sent it to me. He reads sites like SomethingAwful - so I assume it came from there...

And Dracophilia, one presumes.

Re: Argh my eyes....

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

But gryphons as well.

heraldiophilia?

Re: Argh my eyes....

[andrewducker]

Cryptozoophilia?

A google for this will lead to all sorts of interesting things :->

Re: Argh my eyes....

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I can't get to them right now but I know of at least two other sites that do mythical beast genitalia. I'd love to be able to claim to be strange enough to enjoy such things but I don't go -quite- that far.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

hmm, I haven't *quite* been having sex for quarter of a century. One year to go...

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I applaud your stamina! I keep having to stop to go to work :(

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

*likes this*

(dammit, thinks she's on facebook)

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Jings! Thanks for that link re Greens - fascinating/scary stuff. They want to ban research on embryos? Really??

Interesting and sad to read about Pride/Trans as well, I'd not seen that anywhere else either. Cheers :)

[andrewducker]

I watched the fallout from last year's Pride/Trans altercation via a trans person on my friends list. It was rather sad.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure?

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I saw at least three of those that I *need* to buy :p

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Psychodrama, Surrealism, and the Archipelago of Weird

What a smug, insufferable, elitist. She embodies several of my hugest pet-hates.

[andrewducker]

Gosh. I didn't find her to be any of those things.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice metaphor, though not for the reasons she states. I know a thing or two about islands that she glossed right over. Catch me IRL if you want to talk about this; I can't type on this thing.

[andrewducker]

That'd be great - just not over the next few days. Between Noah's birthday, babysitting tomorrow so Hugh can celebrate his wedding anniversary and Padmini's Soiree my week is, as per bleeding usual, uncomfortable over-full.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

TransLondon boycotts Pride 2009

Have I mentioned that I intensely dislike modern gay pride parades as they currently exist? This tokenistic attitude is why.

[andrewducker]

Yup - the idea that gay people should fit into particular boxes seems strange for a pro-gay organisation.