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American Censorship Day: Nov 16
"On 11/16, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system. This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same. Join all of us on the 16th to stop this bill."

Bookshelf Porn
What it says on the tin. *drools*

thelittlebang (The Femslash Little Bang) recently completed posting.

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( Mostly femslash recs: Glee (3), HP (2), W:13/Fringe (1) (warning: adult, NSFW) )

Reading
Via ebooks: The Smell of Books
Does your Kindle leave you feeling like there’s something missing from your reading experience?

*dies*

Short Fiction
None of your Business by Natalia Klyuchareva (Words Without Borders) (kudos to yumiyoshi)
"A young boy tries to discipline his alcoholic parents, to shock them into changing their ways. Wallows in the depravity of human nature, yet the story (and the people) carry on."

Came across this story through DW's Latest Things; there's something really interesting about this one.

( Mostly Femslash Recs: Bitch Slap (1), Glee (2), HP (5), Oglaf (2), Sherlock (1), Spartacus: Blood and Sand (1) (warning: adult, not work-safe) )

Reading
(1) More on gendered spaces on the internet.
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets (kudos to lian)
Based on a survey of 300,000+ users: "Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women. Men also have more reciprocated relationships, in which two users follow each other. This 'follower split' suggests that women are driven less by followers than men, or have more stringent thresholds for reciprocating relationships."

Where Are the Women in Wikipedia? (kudos to terriko)
"...despite [Wikipedia's] openness, surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of Wikipedia's contributors are women."

(2) Two "Daily" newspapers: showcasing the technology disparity between the rich and poor
US$0.14 a day: 'The Daily' launched for iPad* (BBC) vs Alfred Sirleaf's free 'Daily Talk' chalkboard newspaper in Monrovia, Liberia (Monocle).

*=someone has already created an index of all the free web-friendly articles here so you can have a peek without the iPad or having to pay for it (why?).

Update 6/2/11:
(3) For eneri (and gonz, by way of extension), since I know the two of you are foodies at heart: Potluck, "a carnival for multicultural and intersectional discussions of food, including but not limited to food discussions intersecting with disability, gender, sexuality, fat, animal rights, and cultural and racial issues." (kudos to starlady)

Useful Links
FanFictionDownloader (kudos to beatrice_otter)
Downloads ff.net, squidge, and fanficauthors.net fics into ePub, PDF, RTF, TXT, Mobi, LIT, LRF, and other formats.

( Recs: Fringe, HP, Sherlock (warning: not work-safe) )

Did you know that the British Museum and British Library have some of the biggest collections of smut in the world? I'll have to make up an excuse to see some of this the next time I visit. *dryly*

And now for some recs...

( HP, LotS, RPF (warning: not work-safe) )