Daily Archives: August 12, 2005
From the “What the Hell?” File
Posted on August 12, 2005 45 Comments
This lovely story in the New York Times: Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday. Call me crazy, […]
The Fanfic Community Eats One of Its Own and Spits Out The Bones
Posted on August 12, 2005 27 Comments
Fascinating. A fanfic* writer decided to ask for money to write a couple of fanfic novels (or for money to take time to write novels, which would just happen to include two fanfic novels, wink, wink), and the fanfic community came down on her, hard, and with hobnailed boots. Because they know that playing other […]
Cake Vs. Pie: The Final Conflict
Posted on August 12, 2005 71 Comments
One of the reasons I enjoy doing the By the Way journal over at AOL Journals is that it allows me to do fundamentally silly audience participation thingies, like this week’s Weekend Assignment, in which I ask people to choose between cake or pie and then defend that choice. It’s not like I couldn’t do […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying