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Things We Saw Today: Gloriously Geeky Equality

Things We Saw Today

This piece, worn by Eric, an IT director, is an all-encompassing celebration of pride, equality, and tolerance — displayed in the nerdiest maner possible: binary. That portion reads as follows: “All men and women are created equal.” (via Fashionably Geek)

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Being Elmo, the documentary about Kevin Clash and his career puppeteering Elmo, is available on Netflix streaming this very moment. (via Tough Pigs)

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The Death Star clearly has a garbage-disposal problem. Given its size and massive personnel, the amount of waste it generates — discarded food, broken equipment, excrement, and the like — boggles the imagination. That said, I just cannot fathom how an organization as ruthless and efficiently-run as the Empire would have signed off on such a dangerous, unsanitary, and shoddy garbage-disposal system as the one depicted in the movie.

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  • After being denied the chance to testify in the birth control hearing last week — along with anyone who would actually be eligible to take birth control — Sandra Fluke, who had been scheduled to testify, but was rejected as a witness by the Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was given the chance to speak at an unofficial “hearing” that was run by four Democratic House Representatives including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and saw an audience of dozens of other women who wanted to have their say in the contraception debate. (via Huffington Post)
  • Breaking News: Some women enjoy wrestling! One of them writes about it at Girls Watch Wrestling, where she is currently discussing the state of the Divas Division of the WWE.
  • Rich Burlew draws “silly stick figures” for a living, and he’s very, very grateful that you like them. He graciously thanks all who have supported his Kickstarter campaign funding Order of the Stick, which has crossed the million-dollar threshold. (via Matter Anti-Matter)

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