Um, yeah, this would be why I don't read you anymore

Courtesy of Fandom_Wank:

"The Interwebz are evil and suck the lifeblood from all authors" by Robin Hobb

Frankly, if there was an author who needed the lifeblood sapped from her writing it's Robin Hobb - thanks but I don't need to read through 1200 pages to find out things end badly for all concerned - not unless you're a 19th century Russian novelist. Are you a 19th century Russian novelist? No? Then keep it under 350 pp, babe. Kaythxbbyz!

As an aside, I was going to comment on the current HP wank but, really, life is short, some people are too stupid to live (without close supervision of a certified adult minder) and they're getting the collective kicking from the Interwebz they deserve. My 0.02 are not really worth the time it would take to throw them into the fountain, even at the current exchange rate.

Beware Sociologists Speaking Absolutes (Even When They're Linguists)

By way of Digitalfemme: From the NYTimes: "By cultivating an identity perceived as white to the point of excess, nerds deny themselves the aura of normality that is usually one of the perks of being white" - presupposing of course that all nerds are white and all nerds are the same.

Um, bullshit? Methinks the academic in question should consider extending her research into 'nerd' culture beyond rewatching Revenge of the Nerds. Either that or the US is even more different from Canada (or at least urban Canada) than I imagined.