General Internet Recommendations. Or: What, in Cyberspace, is making me happy right now.

[capriuni]

So: my rant against awareness ribbons started getting comments right away, and giving me all sorts of ideas (and social permission) for Anti-Pity designs for my Zazzle store.

But.

Those ribbons are surprisingly tricky to draw, and thinking about them, and what they represent (mostly, what they represent), is making me cranky.

So I am now taking a deliberate break and posting about things that make me un-cranky.

If I recall correctly, I think I have jesse_the_k to thank for this, but if not, I hope you know who you are:

Rolling around in my head
The author of this blog has worked as a counselor for folks with disabilities for 30 years; four years ago, he became disabled, and writes about the new insights that has given him. Currently, he's working around the Canada giving workshops on how to defend yourself against bullying. He updates daily, and his posts are a usually happy blend of Deep, Srs Bznz. and Silly bznz. And he writes well.

Ill Doctrine A video blog by New York City rapper, Jay Smooth. No, he doesn't do transcripts (Boo!), and I keep telling myself that I'll type them up. But even after a sixth or seventh viewing in a row, I keep getting so swept up in what he's saying that I actually forget to type.

So that's a bit of fail on my part. But it does make me happy, and that's what this post is about...

So, um, forgive my fail? and have this video on how to tell people they sound racist (a strategy that would also work for other ____-isms, too), from the height of the most recent Presidential campaign:

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[darryl_van_horne]

Here, this might be helpful:

http://rubberstamping.about.com/od/shapetemplates/ss/AwarenessRibbonTemplate_2.htm

[trouble]

I had an email conversation with Jay Smooth about a year and a half ago where he swore up and down that providing transcripts was important to him and he'd start doing it soon. So.

If you go here: http://www.illdoctrine.com/2008/07/how_to_tell_people_they_sound.html and search for "transcript", someone else has written one.

(I mean, I assume it's that video. My computer crashes whenever I try to watch videos right now.)