- The surprising narrative richness of Grand Theft Auto IV. – By Chris Baker – Slate Magazine – After just scratching the surface of the game…I felt unnerved. What makes [it] so compelling is that, unlike so many video games, it made me reflect on all of the disturbing things I had done. || GTA4 does for gamers what Reservoir Dogs did for me? – none
- Terry Nation: All Hail Terry Nation, Yesterday’s SciFi Creator Of The Future – Although [Survivors] ran three years, Nation left after the first season, moving on to create the much more upbeat[?!] space opera, Blake’s 7. – blake’s7.
- Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto: Easily Setup DVD Playback in Ubuntu with 1 Click – – linux.
- dsudis: Torchwood fic: Make a Beginning – Torchwood needs fixing. A mix of serious and funny, with everyone perfectly in character. Season two spoilers. – torchwood. fanfic. gen. auth.dsudis. jack_harkness. ianto_jones. gwen_cooper. ep.exit_wounds. rec.all_fanfic. rec.flawless. rec.oh_my_god_READ_THIS.
- Feministing – McCain’s not against women and people of color being paid the same as white men for doing the same work…but he doesn’t think we should make businesses do so. [N]ot holding businesses accountable for wage discrimination is the same thing as endorsing it. – feminism.
- Shakesville: How To Fuck Up – – none
- Hanisch, New Intro to “The Personal is Political” – Second Wave and Beyond – “The Personal is Political” paper and the theory it contains, was my response in the heat of the battle to the attacks on us by SCEF and the rest of the radical movement. – feminism.
- Shakesville: Feminism 101: “Sexism is a Matter of Opinion” – – feminism.
- ionlylurkhere: TW Ficlet: Recruitment Policy – Fixes that teeny little logic gap in Toshiko’s choice in Fragments, and then gets skeevy as hell. I call it darkfic, how about you? – torchwood. fanfic. gen. auth.ionlylurkhere. ep.fragments. jack_harkness. toshiko_sato. rec.all_fanfic.
- ianto_daily: pic spam from Rosemary and Thyme – In which GDL is skinny and slouchy and has stupid hair. Why, you ask, do I link to the picspam in which he is NOT attractive? SHUT UP, I DON’T KNOW. – lloyd_gareth_david.
- If We Could Just Agree on One Thing « Off Our Pedestals – But they AREN?T giant man-eating plants. They are people–indigenous people. – feminism. racism.
- 10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu | Tombuntu – – linux.
- Lolcat site hiring; spelling skillz optional – Yahoo! News – Cat ownership is not required, just “a great sense of humor, a deep understanding and love of the Internets and a strong work ethic.” || For this job I would totally work overtime…except then I would expire from bad-spelling-induced apoplexy. – cutefuzzyanimals.
- Capture Tools: Create or Browse Timelines at Dipity – …can create any sort of timeline you want…integrates with tons of popular webapps, like Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm, or any RSS feed, so that all you have to do is provide Dipity with a few usernames or URLs and it’ll automatically build… – timeline. useful.
- io9 – New York Comic-con: Watch a Cylon Interrogation and the Venture Bros. Preview – The BSG panel (embedded video), with a link to the transcript. – bsg. video.
(Update via Postalicious.)