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If you have ever considered having a budgie or two (or three or four!) as pets, this would be a good time to adopt them; Mickaboo is presently overrun with budgies who have been surrendered by people who have decided they don't have the time for them (poor little things). Please note that Mickaboo is in the San Jose/San Francisco area and they will not ship birds, although transport to Southern California can sometimes be arranged ... as my little guys can tell you. |
Funny Stuff A collection of humorous images collected over my more than two decades on the Internet. Hope it gives you a chuckle. |
Ask the Professor My one must-hear podcast of the week. Produced by the University of Detroit Mercy, the show features a panel of UDMercy professors in an "unrehearsed session of questions and answers" which are sent in by the listeners. I submit two or three sets of questions per season and am referred to by its moderator Matt Mio as one of their "favorite listeners". They keep an archive of old shows going back as far as 2011 (although it says 2014 on the ATP homepage); my personal favorite is #1518, in which I guest co-host the program via telephone. I also was a guest panelist six years later on #2044 and #2045. |
Hidato This is my absolute favorite online game. It literally is the first thing I do on my computer every day, while enjoying the single cup of coffee I allow myself. Created by Israeli mathematician Dr. Gyora Benedek in 2008 (and I think I have been playing it from almost the beginning), it is a numerical "pathfinder" problem where there is only one workable solution. It comes in two designs: I prefer the "classic" version rather than the "beehive" but there are people who literally do both each day. And it's free! (But buy a couple of his printed books of puzzles anyway, because he deserves the money.) |
Countdown with Keith Olbermann I have been a fan of Keith Olbermann for many years, and after the iconic Countdown news program left MSNBC after eight years for Current TV (where it imploded after less than one year) I missed his combination of hard news reporting and intelligent commentary. Well, more than a decade later, he has returned with a weekday podcast with the same title, theme music (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), news, special comments, and of course the "Worst Person In The World" feature. Sure, it's audio only, but I'm glad to have him back and I highly recommend that you take the 45 or so minutes each day to listen. (If you would like the backstory on the show, Wikipedia actually has the facts correct in its page on same.) |
Lesbians on Transgender Cross-Talk, when I was publishing it some two decades ago, at one point crossed paths with a woman-only e-mail discussion list called Sappho. The participants got into a discussion about transsexuality and lesbianism which went on for a considerable length of time; when it was done, I obtained the permission of all the participants, edited all the posts together into a coherent order, and published it in three parts in the magazine. Here, I have reconstructed it from the original magazine text archives and am making it available as part of our community's history. |
Identity Spectrum Back around 2010, one of the members of DeviantArt created an online project called the Identity Spectrum, in which many GLBT members downloaded a template and then marked it to show where they identified in terms of physical sex, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. Although the project ended some time ago, I still had my landing page and chart available, so here it is. |
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(Created by the same lesbian couple who produced the famous Lesbians 101 primer.)