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In the irony is dead department:

The second episode of Ugly Betty involves the fashion magazine where Betty works doing post-production on an actress’ photo shoot. The actress is troubled by the proposed retouching to make her skinnier; in part inspired by talking with Betty, she insists they show her as she is.

America Ferrera, the titular Betty and star of Real Women Have Curves, is on the cover of Glamour magazine. With pipe-cleaner arms, a re-shaped face, and conspicuously reduced waist and hips.

Through this collection of comics writing links I came upon yet another Alan Moore interview.

Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness. So the corollary of that holds true as well. If you want to expand people’s consciousness, give them better language, wider language, new words.

I can’t believe I never knew this: you can reverse the anvil of a stapler to pin sheets instead of stapling them.

I’ve got to restore Free Range Memes some time…

A room of one’s own.

Not a generic proposal.

Pink shirt day goes official.

The World Beard & Moustache Championships 2007 winners made me feel totally inadequate about my facial hair.

“He’s my timelord and savior.”