That's a good goddamn question.

zuzu at Feministe asks a great question:

Why is this not called terrorism?

In other news, go ye forth and read this speech given by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1913.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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Huh.  Apparently and recently, Gaim (the lovely open-source chat software) is changing its name to Pidgin.

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Somebody replaced my uterus with sandpaper.  I can totally tell the difference.

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While I am writhing in pain, I ask for your input:

What do you need/want/like on your Windows box?

(I'm looking to flesh out my new-computer del.icio.us tag.  And getting all service packs and updates is an assumed step.)

Quotes and links and…

* At I Blame The Patriarchy, Twisty pens some notes on the revolution:

Do you guys get, I mean actually get, that our society is a patriarchy?

* There's a post over at Bitch Ph.D. from August 2005 (hey, I'm catching up) about misogyny in real life.  The post is good; the comments are better.  I'm about 30 comments in, and this quote hit my ah-ha!-o-meter:

It's using a male default as the standard and then because (well, duh) women are different from that standard, we are found lacking.
- Sarah In Chicago

* What's fun is combining the two with the question: How many anecdotes, how much data, will it take before it stops being a whole lot of women just having really bad luck?  I ask you.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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After coffee, food, and a couple of ibuprofen, I think I'm no longer inclined to throw up due to pain.  So, I'm going to go either to a park or a cafe to knit some more, after I rearrange Magic's little cat cove such that the sun isn't directly hitting her shaved spot.

FASCINATING SHIT I write about here, I know.

As though proof were needed.

Here is the workbook I'm using to track my progress.  I'd like it better if I could show yall the formulas, but they're fairly straight-forward, I suppose.

Display = status, due date, and projected end date.
Tracking = all stats, all the time.
Pattern = the pattern, and which row I'm on (based on # of sections completed).

I could have drilled it down further to # of sts per section (one is 12, one is 21), but lordy, I didn't want to get too granular.  *straight face*  I'd love it if in the future Google could allow for special fonts, but I don't think installing the knitting font is really high on their prioritah list.

Anyways.  If this is useful enough to someone, I'll send over the workbook so's you can see/use the formulas.  Else I'll just leave this up as further proof of my INTENSE DORKLITUDINIOUSNESS.