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Music Monday: Blogs Require Thick Skins

April 20th, 2009 · by xJane · 4 Comments

One of the things I love about MoF is that we’re a pretty small community and don’t attract a lot of trolls. This is not to say we never attract trolls, but when we do, it’s a surprise. There are many sites whose comments I simply don’t read because I don’t want to deal with [...]

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Tags: Art · Blogging · Classic · Creativity. · Dialog · Ethics · Humor · Meme · Music · Music Monday · Pop Culture · Satire · Social Web · Society · Video · Web 2.0

OMG, go watch Kings, now.

April 7th, 2009 · by xJane · 2 Comments

It’s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu’s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn’t keep them forever), so go catch up. It’s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long. It’s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a [...]

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Church and State · Creativity. · Current Events · Dialog · Fiction · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Getting over Religion · Media and Design · Movies/Hollywood · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Pop Culture · Religion · Science Fiction and Fantasy · Spiritual Progressives · Spirituality · Video · Web 2.0

Fucking Friday: Rape (S.A.A.M.)

April 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · 20 Comments

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and, to kick things off, I’d like to take issue with the growing prevalence of the word “rape” as a slang synonym for “dominated”, “rocked’, or “killed”. Both I and a friend have recently had Facebook “friends” (which of course could be anyone from a mere acquaintance to a [...]

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Tags: Activism · Blasphemy · Culture Jamming · Facebook · Feminism · Fucking Friday · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Pop Culture · Sexuality · Society · Web 2.0 · Women

Sparks: Facebook/Social Networking

March 26th, 2009 · by xJane · 3 Comments

One of the many reasons I don’t post with my IRL name here (I won’t say “real”, since xJane is just as real in many ways) is because I am attempting to manage my image. In our internet age, I still find it to be very important to not ruffle feathers in a public way [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Culture Jamming · Current Events · Facebook · Feminism · Gender · Humor · Links · Media and Design · Obama · Personal · Photos · Politics · Pop Culture · Reason · Social Hacking · Social Web · Society · Spark · Web 2.0

Texas & England: Creationism & Its Dangers

March 19th, 2009 · by xJane · 13 Comments

Texas is reviewing its science standards, specifically with the desire to remove them altogether. Skepchick has a great discussion of exactly what this means, but here’s the short version: Texas and California’s choices for scientific textbooks drives the availability of textbooks nationwide because of their massive marketshare the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE) has [...]

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Tags: Activism · Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Church and State · Creationism · Culture Jamming · Current Events · Education · Ethics · Getting over Religion · Law · Media and Design · Politics · Reason · Religion · Science · Skeptic · Society · Web 2.0

Spark: XBox Live (Microsoft) Homophobic

February 25th, 2009 · by xJane · 6 Comments

not a huge surprise, I suppose… RT @pizzocalabro RT @consumerist: Identifying Yourself As A Lesbian Gets You Banned On XBOX Live : http://tinyurl.com/cc48g8

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Tags: Activism · Culture Jamming · Ethics · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Media and Design · News · Politics · Pop Culture · Second Life · Social Hacking · Social Web · Society · Spark · Technology · Web 2.0

Recap of the FaceBook Terms of Service SNAFU.

February 18th, 2009 · by John · 5 Comments

1. Feb. 16, 2009: All your face are belong to us (even if your face quit): You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, [...]

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Tags: Facebook · Social Web · Technology · Web 2.0

Music Monday: Night of Fire

February 16th, 2009 · by xJane · 4 Comments

I’ve been wanting to share something from this genre with you guys, but it’s hard to find the vids online. This is Eurobeat, which is often Italians singing in English for a Japanese market. Quite the international trip—and it is a trip, in all sense of the word. Night of Fire is one of the [...]

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Tags: Art · Humor · Media and Design · Music · Music Monday · Technology · Video · Web 2.0

Spark: Pre-Celebrate Valentine’s Day

February 12th, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment

And watch this vid. An MoF favorite singer and an MoF favorite cause: Regina Spektor and No On H8. Do this before V day and enjoy your partnership on Valentine’s Day guilt-free (and full of hope). Let’s dedicate this Valentine’s Day to love.

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Tags: Activism · Art · Belief · Church and State · Current Events · Ethics · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Humanity · Justice · Law · Media and Design · Music · News · Politics · Religion · Science · Sexuality · Society · Spark · Spiritual Progressives · Video · Web 2.0

Music Monday: Valentine

February 9th, 2009 · by xJane · 2 Comments

My husband and I don’t have any one “our” song, but anything by Burlap to Cashmere, Train or Vertical Horizon reminds me of him. This is one that especially reminds me of when we first met & fell in love. What are your favorite love songs (not necessarily songs about love but songs that remind [...]

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Tags: Art · Media and Design · Music · Music Monday · Personal · Video · Web 2.0