Charlie’s Diary: Bechdel’s Law
Charlie Stross on a really good, simple baseline rule on deciding if a work fails a basic gender-equality test. There might be the odd work that gets exempted from it, but the number of works of popular entertainment that fail it is disturbing.
(tags: fiction gender feminism media)
Guinea pig festival
Aww, lookit the little fluffy Guinea Pigs. So cute! So fluffy! In their funny outfits! It’s not often the Torygraphy impresses me, but I do love the way this set of photos is structured…
(tags: photography peru festival)
Party laser blinds ravers
On the one hand: poor bastards. On t’other, oh my god, the jokes…
(tags: russia news gurningidiots)
Steven Shaviro on Mark Millar’s WANTED
One of the few people I know who really has Twitter cracked. His stream is made up of short critiques and quick ideas, usually very sharp and on target. This is a good example, neatly summarising the key problem with the work. He’s well worth reading.
(tags: comic criticism twitter)
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Battersea Power Station - A New Energy for London
Well, I know what I’m doing on Saturday.
(tags: architecture london photography)
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