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Sex, drinking, drugs, violence, death and even magic are often cited as dangerous themes from which young readers should be protected. However, if one looks at the history of writing for children, it becomes clear that those elements have been present from the very beginning. This exhibition will explore the vast wonderland of children's literature, shedding new light on the shadows lurking in the rabbit holes.

The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned – CornellCast
M.T. Anderson, an American author of picture books, pre-teen books, and young-adult novels, delivered the opening lecture for Wardrobes and Rabbit Holes: A Dark History of Children’s Literature on November 7, 2012.

1. No cases on a durable phone that will be valueless old tech in two years when I get a new one. ^(a)

2. No shitty three dollar plastic film to ‘protect’ nigh-fucking-indestructible gorilla glass screens.

a – Protective cases become viable when the devices they encompass get heavy enough to qualify as tablets; in other words, when their own weight makes it more likely they can’t withstand being dropped. ^(b)

b – Corollary: don’t buy a phone that, according to the above rule, is effectively a tablet.

DOGHOUSE | Getting A New Phone
Hey people! Forekast just launched! It’s a project we’ve been working on. If you wanna know more, here’s our blog post. << · < ? > >> << · < ? > >> Getting A New Phone. It’s a very strange thing. Comments on Facebook. Alt-Text: Let’s further defile it with its own figurine pet which we will …

This weekend's Newbery reading.

I just realized that Import Tags and Ignore Tags do not want the actual hash symbol in front of the words. Finally got them working as intended. Man I'm slow sometimes.

I think, between Tumblr Crosspostr, SM2WP, Social, MailChimp, and a well-timed animal sacrifice, I might have gotten all my social network/blog sites tied together, and successfully set up my tumblr as an aggregate blog, pulling together posts from all my sites into one semi-coherent whole.

I give it three months until someone changes something in their API or widgets or zip code, and the whole house of cards comes down.

Maybe three weeks.

G.K. Chesterton, a journalist who gets (well, got) it.

Why We Are So Afraid and Confused and Get Child Dangers ALL WRONG : Free Range Kids
Fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers, Ivy League rejection letters and/or the perils of a non-organic grape.