random recs and update

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'k, so I'm finally sorting through a lot of backlogged comments and emails and stuff, and many apologies for the lateness but, better late than never I suppose? ::wry grin::

Meanwhile, here's some cool links that were passed along to me...

- zSHARE - Free Image, Video, Audio, Flash and File Hosting. As far as I can tell, it's pretty much like yousendit, but better, because it keeps your files up as long as someone downloads them at least once every 10 days.

- darkfanfic - It's a locked community so that you don't have to worry about posting fic too dark and/or warning labels. ::shakes tiny asian fist at warning labels::

- Chocolate Sushi - no seriously. Sushi that looks like sushi, made from chocolate. InSANELY detailed, and kinda really expensive, but DOODE. socool.

- Elvis Plushenko stripping on ice - Granted, it's foam muscles, but he jiggles them SO delightedly that I can't help cackling in glee...

- Grey Matter - The writer's blog for Grey's Anatomy, very neat, and apparently they read the comments

- ThinkGeek - "Stuff for Smart Masses", with neat stuff like Space Age Ant Habitats, the Swiss Memory USB, and Caffeine Molecule t-shirts. =D

- Google: Tiananmen? Never Happened! - Google has been censoring search results on it's Chinese search engine to placate the Chinese government, like, y'know, the Tiananmen Square Massacre. At least Google is putting up notices that this censoring is taking place, instead of it just being a black hole of informationlessness.

Le Sigh. See, while I'm outraged at the whole "Censorship=Bad" thing, I can understand their wish to present a better face to the world and stuff. It's kinda similar to the whole, "Oh, I'm a Californian, but not as much American" phenomenon I sometimes encounter, like, splicing off the parts of your cultural history that you not so much like. Which, yes, I understand; because it is also like looking at your personality and being conscious of it's dark places, without trying to ignore that it's there or rationalize it away. It's...like how I'm American, and in a way, culturally American, as well as being culturally fandom, as well as being culturally Asian. And I can't separate that out, and I can't say that I'm just the good parts of my cultures, as much as I want to. It kinda honestly IS making up for the sins of the father, because as much as their sins are not *directly* my fault, I'm still reaping the benefits of their sins. I profit from their sins, by living in America, by being well off, so some of it is mine and I'll figure out how best to give back eventually...

- Soft Skull: No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt - ...which is perhaps a good segue into this book, which I'm waiting for. Got recced it by someone on my flist and it looks all sorts of awesome.

- Ryan Reynolds' official myspace blog - this is hilarious and cracktastic. Observe:

Driving down the highway I like to stare at other motorists. Mainly, because I can't believe the shit they do while driving. Putting on makeup, eating bowls of cereal, typing on their laptop, getting dressed, working both a cell phone AND a Blackberry, etc... It's actually impressive because they're doing this while hurdling two tons of gasoline infused steel down a major metropolitan expressway. Do they have any clue how dangerous this is? That's about when I realize I'm not watching the road. I'm watching other people not watch the road. Then there's a tremendous amount of airbags, blood, and little chunks of Buick in the back of my throat and the smell of burnt toast and how did my car get so small? Am I airborn?

Comments

[sticckler.livejournal.com]

That Evgeni Plushenko thing is the funniest thing ever! Now, I might just be saying this because I have a friend who is totally obsessed with him, but I was laughing hysterically all the way through! Thanks for the link, and I passed it on by putting it on my lj to spread the fake muscle love.

[potterwitch.livejournal.com]

OMG yes! Is he not just... guh? That's absolutely made my day :^D

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::grins and bows:: t'was my pleasure, I could not help being all a-glee either!