So, movie graphic designers… I think we need a break. I think it’s time to see other fonts.

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Pumpkin ice cream — Leary tested and approved.

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Uwe Boll has made a Darfur movie. No, wait, it gets better. (via Cleolinda)

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Why shouldn’t you judge your body image by professional models’ standards? This is why. (via Sancho, in chat)

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via lots and lots of people, rape is a preexisting condition.

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Readers Have Copyright Rights Too

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Essential plot twists for writers

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Last week, I discovered that the standard ’save to delicious’ bookmarklet pretty much sucks on the iPhone. It tries to open a new window. It doesn’t use the mobile version of delicious. When I got back, I realized that nothing I’d been saving actually got saved.

The mobile edition itself is rather good, but its save function doesn’t fill in the URL and title for you. That’s obviously less than ideal; who wants to cut and paste all that junk? I mashed up this code with the original bookmarklet and came up with this:

javascript:(function(){var newUrl='http://m.delicious.com/save?url=';var thisUrl=encodeURIComponent(location.href);var title='&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);location.href=newUrl+thisUrl+title;})();

It doesn’t open a new window, and it does preload the URL and title. Now if delicious will just get tag autocompletion working, bookmarking on the iPhone will be just about perfect.

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The danger of a single story (via Janni Lee Simner)

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If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I spent the week attending the HighEdWeb conference. I’ve been a presenter and a member of the programming committee for the last few years. I adore this conference because the quality of the presentations is outstanding, the attendees are delightful people, and the focus is exclusively on higher ed. Networking with 450 people who share your professional frustrations is amazing.

HighEdWeb has an active backchannel. This year, things got interesting.

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Giz Explains: How To Fix the Airlines’ Stupid Portable Gadget Rules — I’m traveling a lot in the next couple of months, so this is on my mind again.

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Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!

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The best Scrivener tip ever

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The Theory of Twitter

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Best Buy sells you backup plan, fails to back up your data, then replaces your hard drive. This is not an isolated incident (as a quick search for ‘Geek Squad’ demonstrates). Michael has a tidy side business rescuing people’s data after the Geek Squad has failed to do their job (but charged for their services anyway).

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Awful Library Books

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ArmadilloCon was delightful (except for the migraine and the insomnia, but those were my issues, not theirs). If you are a fan of Scott Lynch, keep your ears open this week for an announcement that is, as they say, relevant to your interests. Maybe two, even.

Also, thanks to a little down time and the free hotel bar wifi, the HTML Import plugin for WordPress now includes an option to clean up bad HTML, such as that from Word or Frontpage.

And! There appears to be an Arabic translation of the Random Posts from Category widget. Nifty.

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Hal Duncan’s open letter to John C. Wright — alas, the LiveJournal post to which he’s responding has been deleted. It was a pretty awesome piece of bigotry, and I tried to dig it out of my cache for your delectation, but it’s gone. Hal gives you the gist, though. (ETA: An enormous screencap of Wright’s post, located in the comments on Catherynne Valente’s awesome open letter.) (ETA2: Google’s cache, courtesy of Mike.)

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My congoing buddy Mike is entering this weekend’s ArmadilloCon schedule into an iCalendar. It’s public, so you can subscribe on your phone if you like. He has today’s all the events in there so far, and I’ll take up the data entry chore while he drives if need be.

Of course, it’s unofficial, so we don’t guarantee that it will reflect changes. Also, please to be noting that it does not include panel participants as of yet.

(I honestly wonder why more SF conventions don’t do this. Techy conferences like SxSW have been all over it for years now. The hCalendar conference schedule creator would be one easy way to handle it.)

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Packaging for Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes products — close-ups from one of the graphic designers.

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