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• Charity Signal Boost: Special Effect

  By Anna on 2014-03-15

  

  Special Effect is a UK-based charity full of very clever people who develop work-arounds that allow people with a wide range of disabilities to play computer games.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-03-15 • ( 27 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• 25 years of the WWW

  By tigtog on 2014-03-14 • ( 3 )

  

  The Web was 25 years old this past Tuesday. What memories stir within you?

• #AWW Book Review: Mateship with Birds

  By Mindy on 2014-03-12 • ( 1 )

  

  Mateship with Birds was reviewed for the 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge.

• The Church Of Bob

  By tigtog on 2014-03-12 • ( 15 )

  

  There are the beginnings of a promising SFF fandom TOD developing over at Scalzi’s joint, for those who have spare popcorn lying around.

• Fetal personhood in NSW: “an issue that should be of serious concern to all of us”

  By Mary on 2014-03-11

  

  Health lawyer Julie Hamblin opposes fetal personhood in NSW on the grounds that even limited recognition of fetal personhood, combined with the legal grey area of abortion access, would to allow someone to challenge access to abortion in NSW.

• Cannot brane today need randoms

  By tigtog on 2014-03-10 • ( 11 )

  

  It’s one of those days where one needs whimsy. Whaddya got?

• #AWW 2014 Book Review: The People Smuggler

  By Mindy on 2014-03-10

  

  Book review of The People Smuggler: the true story of Ali Al Jenabi, the ‘Oskar Schindler of Asia’.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-03-08 • ( 21 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• SIgnal Boosting: Surly Amy’s Skeptic and Atheist Do Better Challenge

  By tigtog on 2014-03-06

  

  As an atheist, I do not get to find solace in the idea that I have an afterlife to plan for. I have to make peace with the idea that this one life is all that I have and that every single solitary moment counts right now. It counts in moments, that are slowly ticking away. And while I also have to realize that while there is no God keeping track of those moments and my actions within them, that none-the-less they matter.

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