• On Life and Love

    Good reads

    It’s been a loooong time since I posted some good reading. 5 Things I Learned as the Internet’s Most Hated Person | Cracked.com "I watched every avenue of social media suddenly blow up with messages of abject hatred from thousands of strangers. For the first five days, I couldn't sleep. Every time I would start to doze off, I'd be shocked awake from half-asleep nightmares about everyone I love buying into the mob's bullshit and abandoning me. The ceaseless barrage of random people sending you disgusting shit is initially impossible to drown out — it was constant, loud, and it became my life." They Are Not Trolls. They Are Men.…

  • On Life and Love

    Quasi-daily linkage

    Net Worth – So true. Buttersafe – The Five Stages – This is a particularly well-done Buttersafe comic. The Gen Y Guide to Personal Finance | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – A wonderfully concise guide to getting started saving for retirement. There are certain folks (you know who you are) who I want to beat over the head for their resistance to saving for retirement. I'm slow to start because of my loans, but I'm getting there anyway, and I'm aware of how important it is. Congress at the Cash Register: How Financial Reform Could Affect Your Shopping | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News &…

  • On Life and Love

    Quasi-daily linkage

    Just the facts about what health care reform means for you | TheLoop21.com – A nice list of the changes from the healthcare bill. YouTube – Top Secret Drum Corps – They play each others’ drums. Go see. Topless Robot – Fan Fiction Friday: Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean Grey in “Day of reckoning” – Um, wow. Not safe for work. Read it anyway. Letter to Iraq – From two of the soldiers in the company depicted in Wikileaks’s “Collateral Murder” video.