It’s Friday! The first Friday in October, a month which contains one of my favorite holidays, birthdays of several people I love, an anniversary, and some of my favorite weather.

In honor of this first Friday in October, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Cyber harassment study reveals the unsurprising!

OMFG Teach Your Kids Accurate Names for Body Parts Already.

Look: Harlem Hate Pastor Posts Violent New Anti-Gay ‘Biblical’ Message.

Consumer Reports tests suggest iPhone 6 ‘bend-gate’ a bit overblown.

Bendgate Unbent: Apple And Viral iPhone 6 Plus Bender Are Both Right.

No, you probably can’t bend the iPhone 6 Plus. Unless you’re a bodybuilder.

The Death Of The Saturday Morning Cartoon Is Complete.

R.I.P. Buster Jones. The voice behind some of your favorite Saturday morning cartoon characters.

The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes. “no one feels individually accountable for financial crisis mistakes because management is through consensus.”

High School football death is 3rd in recent days. Ebola has killed zero people in America this week, while High School football has killed three. So, what should we be worried about?

Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?

Strange New Type of Brain Cell Discovered.

Calif. governor signs bill prohibiting ‘gay panic’ defense in murder charges. And that’s not all: Four Exciting New Laws Protecting Gay and Trans People Passed in California!

Man exonerated after 10 years in prison will get $500,000.

Video: Late-night octopus-watching off West Seattle’s shore.

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times.

The War Nerd: Let’s put Islamic State’s menacing advance into perspective by… looking at a map.

Why the genetic code is not universal.

Building an Ark for the Anthropocene.

Alaska actually wants to use the Jim Crow approach in defending its gay marriage ban.

Weird ‘Island’ on Saturn Moon Titan Puzzles Scientists (Video, Photos).

The Babylonian map of the world sheds light on ancient perspectives.

How American parenting is killing the American marriage.

Adorable Alligatorellus.

Rejected Princesses: HYPATIA: THE MARTYR MATHEMATICIAN.

The Unexceptional Devil’s Hole Pupfish.

The Enemy Of Archaeology Is Not People, It’s Salt.

Rumor calls out Windows 95 as the reason Microsoft skipped version 9.

Republicans Angry that a Republican Attorney General Who has been caught having registered to vote in multiple states, has been removed from the ballot in accordance with state law. The irony meter is exploding…

Republicans In ‘Republicans Are People Too’ Ad Are Not Actual Republican People. The entire lame campaign is stock photos.

5 public health threats in Texas scarier than Ebola.

Lost ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Film Discovered After Almost a Century.

‘Science’ Center Teaches Boys Rocketry, Girls Makeup. Internet Certain To Be Pleased. (Updated).

Supernova! –“Are They the Reason the Milky Isn’t Crawling with Biological and Machine Intelligence” (Or Is it?).

Lies of the Devil Talkers.

…and a sonic screwdriver!

Lesbian Misogyny #YesAllWomen:

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Pharrell Williams – It Girl:

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At Long Last, An Invisibility Cloak We Can Believe In:

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Hollysiz – The light (you may need a whole box of kleenex):

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Handsome Man ~ Matt Alber (Official):

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It’s Friday! I’d be happier about it if I wasn’t sick. Don’t forget, September birthdays are extra special, because September babies are superior. It’s a fact. No, really.

Anyway, in honor of this second Friday in the glorious month of September, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

5 ways America changed God. (Thanks to @foxraven for the link!)

Obama Outperforms Reagan On Jobs, Growth And Investing.

Straw man arguments are the scourge of public discourse, but there is an alternative.

Possibly headline of the week: Man With Horns and Bolts Tattoos on his Face Stabs Couple and Skates Away.

But this one is also a contender: Devil statue with giant erection pops up in Vancouver, BC [NSFW].

WATCH: Benedict Cumberbatch Has A Giggle Fit In This ‘Sherlock’ Blooper.

How they made those gorgeous end credits for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I love these as a work of art, but also how they evoke some of classic illustration technique while evoking the characters and events of both Captain America movies.

Hot Alaska Gossip: Sarah Palin’s Whole Family Was in a Nasty Brawl. Best quote: “This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!”

Pop Sonnet: Is this the waking world, or do I sleep?

Cold Dark Matter May Have Kept Our Milky Way All Alone In Its Corner Of The Universe.

EA Pledges to Fix “Gay Filter” in Sims 4.

Bush apologist hits new low: An infuriating attempt to rewrite Iraq history.

It’s hared to love gay culture if you don’t know what it is.

Social Contracts and “the Cult of Likability.”

A Conservative Judge Did A Stunning About-Face On Gay Marriage.

A Black Hole Doesn’t Die — It Does Something A Lot Weirder.

Remarkable 3,900-Year-Old Suit Of Bone Armor Found In Siberia.

Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found.

Our birds are in real trouble. Can we fix it? Yes we can!

Pennsylvania town will no longer evict domestic violence victims who call the police seeking help.

Georgia State Senator: Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People.

Ancient Egyptian Art Contains The Records of Past Extinctions.

Al Franken Drops a Truth Bomb On The Senate: Citizens United Is Money Laundering.

The Best Commentary on Ray Rice’s Suspension Comes From Joe Biden.

Southern secessionist group forming paramilitary unit called the “Indomitables.”

With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce.

20-Year Mystery of the Universe’s Brightest Objects Solved.

Huffington Post: We Figured Out Why The Westboro Baptist Church Hates Us So Much.

Tennessee Pastor Robert Gallaty Suggests Gays ‘Must Be Put To Death’ Or Remain Celibate.

Two New Rulings Unmask the Weakness of the Case Against Marriage Equality.

Fossils push back origins of modern mammals.

Shattering DNA may have let gibbons evolve new species.

So You Want to Understand Bayes’ Theorem and/or Look at Photos of Cats.

The Planets that Never Were.

A High-end Watch Guy’s Thoughts On The Apple Watch After Seeing It In The Metal.

Life In The Only State Where Gay Couples Can Get Married One Day, Fired The Next.

Robert Plant – Rainbow | Official Music Video:

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In The Ray Rice Situation, Everyone Must Go:

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What a lovely song: Holly Johnson ‘In And Out Of Love’ (Official Video):

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A Den Of Kittens (just 2 and a half minutes of purring kittens, really):

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Baby Bear on Golf Course – At Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, BC:

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It’s Friday! The first Friday in September. It’s a month full of birthdays and anniversaries. Okay, okay, every month is, but September birthdays are extra special, because September babies are superior. It’s a fact. No, really.

Anyway, in honor of this first Friday in the glorious month of September, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

New Atlanta LGBT Youth Homeless Shelter Benefits From Viral Campaign.

Father Charles Pope: Cancel The St. Patrick’s Day “Anal Sex” Celebration. These haters always focus on a sex act that not all gay people participate in, and which literally millions of straight people do.

Incredibly stupendously high resolution picture of the Andromeda Galaxy.

EMBARRASSING TYPOS MAR OTHERWISE SPARKLING ROLL-OUT OF LGBT ‘RAINBOW HONOR WALK’ IN SF.

Want Marriage Equality? Don’t Sit out These Elections.

Gay Board Games from the ’70s and ’80s.

Prehistoric Leafcutter Bee Pupa. (Because invertebrates are cool, but fossil invertebrates are cooler!)

Dramatic Cave Art Confirms that Neanderthals Were Capable of Abstract Expression.

How junk food changes eating behaviour.

The Point of Pointing.

Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”.

Whitman Was Not a Neuroscientist, or Why There is Yet No Grand Unified Theory of Neuroscience.

University Of Kansas Considered Community Service Too ‘Punitive’ For Rape Punishment.

If the NFL doesn’t want people to think it’s homophobic, it should stop being so homophobic.

S.E. Cupp on nude photos: Don’t own things other people want if you don’t want to have them stolen!

“I Went to the Woods So I Could Steal Candy From Children”: The Maine Hermit Is A Terrible Hero To Have.

The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families.

The Pros and Cons of Straight Guys in Gay Bars. The guy who wrote this seems to live in a completely different universe than I do. I can’t figure out if this is a profound commentary or fluff.

What Happens to “Holdouts” Who Refuse to Sell Their Homes to Developers?

One Year Later, Horror Stories About This City’s LGBT Non-Discrimination Law Haven’t Come True – Prohibiting Anti-LGBT Discrimination Hasn’t Threatened Religious Liberty.

Barely Literate? How Christian Fundamentalist Homeschooling Hurts Kids.

Senior GOP spokesman comes out as gay. Someone needs to tell him that those “friends” who consider his sexuality corrosive to society were never his friends; they liked the person he was pretending to be while closeted, and never knew him.

DEFROCKED PASTOR DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT NEW PULPIT.

The golden age of science fiction magazines served up some interesting queerish images. We have seen the future, and the future is gay. I don’t normally like linking to slideshows/listicles, but some of these covers were too silly.

How gay marriage made me want to get straight married.

Dreadnoughtus! New Dino May Be Largest Land Animal Ever.

Is There Any Rational Case for Banning Gay Marriage?
In an exhilarating takedown of Indiana and Wisconsin’s prohibitions, Judge Richard Posner rules there isn’t.

Recycled Boy: 5 Years on Testosterone Picture/Timeline:

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The 2 Bears – Get Out:

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(I have no idea why the decided to use footage from the 70s Saturday Morning Cartoon, “Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!” but the song is very cool.)

It’s Friday! The last Friday in August. Wait! How did that happen? How does the time seem to fly, so? That means for many of us, this is a three-day weekend. All the more reason to be happy that Friday is finally here!

To celebrate, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Besides Michael Brown, Whom Else Does The New York Times Call “No Angel”?.

Ferguson’s booming white grievance industry: Fox News, Darren Wilson and friends.

Cops Hold Mother And Four Kids At Gunpoint Because They Thought Her Red Nissan Was A Tan Toyota.

John Oliver mocks inaccurate Internet headlines by destroying a Pinata.

Matthew Yglesias: Michael Brown didn’t do anything as a teen that I didn’t — but only one of us got killed.

Mike Huckabee Pleads With Australia To Stop Canceling Anti-Gay Hate Group Conference Venues.

Same-sex couples still fighting for equality with these three federal agencies.

Confronting Lovecraft’s racism.

Nitpicking the nitpickers.

Gorgeous 3D printed Prosthetic Born of Boredom. Dumb headline. The prosthetic hand is awesome, however.

‘These Murders Are A Steady Drumbeat’: A Year After Trans NYC Murder, Community On Edge.

The dirty little secret inside the fight for gay marriage: moralists want to own the sex lives of straight people, too. I don’t know how this can be a secret, we’ve been telling you this for YEARS!

Judge Posner’s Blistering Benchslaps At The Same-Sex Marriage Arguments.

Evolution’s Baby Steps.

Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud.

Finally! Secret of Death Valley’s ‘Sailing Stones’ Is Revealed.

The ‘Times’ Of London Reverts To Type To Motivate Reporters.

Republicans Poll Ladies, Learn Ladies Too Dumb To See Republicans’ Awesomeness.

Dumbo Octopus Gives Rare View. (Video embedded below)

Unusually Large Dumbo Octopus Sighting:

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KAZAKY – PULSE:

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AsapSCIENCE — Your Brain On Coffee:

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ROSEWATER Trailer:

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Energetic roofer can’t help but samba to Latino music:

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Destruction – Brett Gleason (Official Video):

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Wilson Knight – Just Missed The Train:

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MDNGHT – Breeze:

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It’s Friday! The week is nearly over. That means tomorrow night the new season of Doctor Who premieres! How have I contained myself all week?!

Until then, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties.

Having been a robbery suspect in the past does not justify a roadside execution.

LGB People Who Seek Counseling From Religious Sources Are MORE Likely to Attempt Suicide.

Alabama County Commissioner Thinks Constitution Based On Ten Commandments, Is Incorrect.

Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet. “Email — yes, email — is one way forward for a less commercial, less centralized web, and the best thing is, this beautiful cockroach of a social network is already living in all of our homes.”

Ark Encounter Theme Park Takes $18 Million In Taxpayer Subsidies, But Non-Christians Can’t Work There. And it’s not just that you have to be a Christian to apply, most Catholics, mainline Protestants, and certain types of Fundamentalist beliefs don’t qualify, either.

‘Soldiers’ Inventories’ Photo Series Details 1,000 Years of Gear Worn in War.

John Oliver won’t be your therapist: How he torpedoed the reassuring tropes of fake news.

2014 Hugo Award Winners.

TALKING STAMPS: TINY VINYL RECORD POSTAGE STAMPS THAT WERE PLAYABLE, 1972.

A worm with legs? No, you’re not seeing things.

Don Pardo dies at 96; ‘Saturday Night Live’ announcer.

Nineteenth century astronomers had it right, 20th century got it wrong and it drastically delayed the search for exoplanets.

Fact-checking John Oliver’s claim that Keene, N.H., officials wanted armored vehicle to thwart terrorism at pumpkin fest.

The mystery of the falling teen birth rate.

OPENLY GAY SINGER ‘DIES’, REBORN AS TOTALLY ‘STRAIGHT’ COUNTRY SINGER ‘NATE GREEN’.

The Mural That Was Used as a Long-Jump Mat. And just a few days later, CUMMING’S SKAGIT MURAL MYSTERY SOLVED.

George Takei Gloriously Responds To Stupid Questions About Gay People.

Christian Writer Says It’s Hard to Imagine Vicky Beeching is Gay Because Men Find Her Attractive. Think about that for a moment…

Humans Did Not Wipe Out the Neanderthals, New Research Suggests.

Why the MPAA thinks all gay people should be rated ‘R’.

Sam inspires college athletes to come out.

Nobody Knows How Many Americans The Police Kill Each Year.

Police in a Missouri suburb demonstrate how not to quell a riot. (Thanks to Zammi for the link)

Convicting Darren Wilson Will Be Basically Impossible.

More Fergusons are coming: Why paramilitary hysteria is dooming America.

In case you missed it, earlier this week I wrote about (Un)real Characters, and about feeling Powerless after my husband was in an accident, and about local hate-crimes: Shootings.

Garfunkel and Oates – Rainbow Connection (sweet video):

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Into the Spotlight – Episode 85: Fontfolly (um, yes, that’s me being interviewed on an Everfree Network radio show…:

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ASAPscience The Science of Depression:

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ERASURE – Elevation (BT Remix):

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Matthew Connor – How Is July Already Over? (live action stop-motion and noir fashion):

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It’s Friday! The week is nearly over. It’s time to celebrate!

As usual, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Robin William’s Top Ten Reasons to be Episcopalian.

Robin Williams’ daughter leaves social media after receiving abuse. (Learning what some people did, leaves me ashamed to be human)

The Domestic Cat Genome Has Been Fully Sequenced, and It’s Fascinating.

Jennifer Ouellette: The english major who taught herself calculus.

The unstoppable march of the upward inflection?

Gay “Doctor Who” Fans Take Best Engagement Photos In All Of Space-Time.

Are Christians persecuted in the United States?

Spacecraft films Pluto’s largest moon in orbit. Pluto has multiple moons, but it isn’t a planet any more, based on a criteria that has nothing to do with its own properties, and if applied strictly to Earth or Jupiter would disqualify them, too… But here, the pictures are pretty.

Steady miniaturization led some dinosaurs to find ways to better adapt for the long-term survival of their line.

Beautiful Glowing Beaches Look Like Something From Another World.

The Glory of Math Is to Matter.

GOP governors gaily canoodle brothers who equate homosexuality with satan; no homo.

Super Bowl Champion, Russell Wilson, Swats Away Fox Host’s Criticism Of Michelle Obama.

Techno-Archaeologists Used an Abandoned McDonald’s to Hijack a Satellite.

Court rules against ‘rapture’ parents.

A Lost Way of Making Bodies From Before Skeletons and Shells.

This Extreme Antarctic Insect Has the Tiniest Genome.

Ants May Boost CO2 Absorption Enough to Slow Global Warming.

Experience the proto-internet running on an Apple IIgs in your web browser.

The completely ridiculous story of how Dan Roth met Robin Williams in a comic book store.

This Is The Terrifying Result Of The Militarization Of Police.

Mom confronts TERF bigotry aimed at her family.

The science behind typos slipping throuhg the cracks.

Mystery fish baffles experts after washing up in Tathr.

Where Do the Five Million Plus Non-male Non-Female Americans Fit Into the Gay Marriage Discussion?

Trolls….

We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Making Your Comics.

Iranian Woman Nabs Highest Prize in Mathematics.

New Research Links Extreme Weather to Global Warming.

Image of the day: Don’t blink. And try not to laugh.

When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims.

Raising a Trans Child Is Not Child Abuse.

Why Conservatives Should Want to Ban Divorce. A better headline: “If Conservatives were really out to protect traditional marriage, they would do this thing, but they don’t, which tells us they are lying about not being anti-gay (as if anyone with more than half a brain didn’t already know that)”

How to Be Polite. This is a much more awesome essay than the title may make you think…

Prom Date – Good Morning, Boyfriend [Official Video]:

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Carol Burnett and Robin Williams -The Funeral:

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Röyksopp & Robyn “Monument” – is it a music video, a science fiction movie, or something else:

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Lauren Bacall’s ‘Applause’-worthy trip to Greenwich Village:

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Inspiring 99-year-old woman competes in Gay Games:

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Favorite Whose Line Moments – Robin Williams:

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