Comment and Link Roundup: January 29, 2019

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Casual game rec: GeoGuessr

The one about expanding Internet access

Not a comment exactly, but I did add another paragraph to How to Backup Your Dreamwidth after getting a little more experience with the method.

Question of the Day: January 21, 2019 (the one about clones) [two comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by cptsdcarlosdevil) Is porn a thing you *read* or a thing you *watch*?

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende) Dreamwidth seems like a perfectly reasonable place to blog about gender and sexuality.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Archiving tips. [two comments]

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by somnulencelogencia) Nudism and sanitation.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Insert that Shalom Sesame song about how hot it is here. (oh, hey, looks like somebody uploaded "Sing Around the Seasons" to Youtube since the last time I wanted to link that episode; the recording's pretty low quality, but a lot better than nothing)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by oligopsony; response is to cptsdcarlosdevil) There's a difference between "not into anything on a list of eleven common fetishes" and "vanilla".

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by youarenotthewalrus) Just because Tumblr isn't deserted doesn't mean nothing's changed.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by thedarlingone) I linked this in the last roundup (the one about ask-meme responses), but there's been more conversation since then.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by glacialtimeframe) The best X in Y, whatever that means.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende) ""Extreme male brain"". (it occurs to me that the post I linked has a followup post that I did not link; here it is)

[I'm not sure what content warning to put on this, maybe "unsanitary"] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP is an anonymous submission to rationalists-out-of-context) Does sexual arousal interfere with urination?

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Links:

[Smithsonian Magazine; Wayback] (by Brigit Katz) For a short time, there was a living cotton plant in a tiny greenhouse on the Moon (as part of the Chang'e mission).

Laugh rule:
[Youtube] (by Matt Parker; h/t Mom) A stand-up routine about how unironically great spreadsheets are.

[Youtube] (by Weird Al Yankovic) I was vaguely aware of the existence of the song "I Think I'm a Clone Now", but since we've been talking about clones around here it seemed like an appropriate time to go listen to it.

[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) Apparently that "sonic weapon" American diplomats in Cuba experienced turned out to be crickets. Cuban crickets can sound pretty unnerving if you don't know what to expect.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by ilzolende) More Dreamwidth-friendly versions of expanding-brain images. (example)

[Vice; Wayback] (by Joseph Cox) North Korea has its own operating system, and it is very North Korean.