A few links for the nerds on my flist

[sqbr]

Friday membership at Swancon is only 20 dollars. And oh look, that's when both of my panels are :D (Casual anime and hard sf with soft sciences)

There's been a bunch of discussions about how Swancon could improve, eg from angriest (and again) and tommmo, I'd be really curious to hear any opinions from Perth nerds who don't go to Swancon (or do and are dissatisfied). Anyone deep down want to run panels but are too shy/intimidated? I think it's really important for more new people to get involved, and here's some stuff you could volunteer for.

One of the positive outcomes of RaceFail09 is verb_noire, an e-publishing house for works about POC and/or GLBT characters. (And this is a good summary of the fail and why it matters if it's all a bit confusing)

And now I'm going to try and ignore my comments for a bit, because my arm is sore. (Yeah, I know, posting to lj when I feel like crap is like a sickness with me)

Comments

[sanguinity]

Thanks for the link to tablesaw's post. I saw that earlier today, but read a paragraph and clicked back out, because it looked like a lot of the "I'm white and racefail is confusing and my head hurts" posts that have been mostly not interesting. Which, as you know, it wsn't. I'm glad you pointed my attention back toward it (and its linkedy-links!), thanks.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, there's so many posts it's hard to motivate myself to give a new one a chance if it doesn't grab me in the first paragraph! I remembered tablesaw being someone who says sensible things which helped (also they have a cool usericon :D)