Mary Anne Mohanraj gets you up to speed, part I

After choosing to avoid direct exposure to RaceFail2009, I enjoyed this summary, by Mary Ann Mohanraj, of some of the key points that have bubbled up.

Much of this sounds rather familiar to me, and I recognize that this is directly due to some of y'all. I've been quietly reading your writing over the last year or three on, for example, what "white privilege" means, and what it doesn't mean, despite what people tend to infer from the term alone. If I've been tacitly absorbing all this, you can assume that many others are, too. So feel free to feel good about that!

(Oh, and please consider comments-reading on the linked post to be more optional than usual. Because: racefail.)

Planbeast cards

Nifty new Planbeast feature: Personalized Planbeast cards, little images saying what you're gonna do next on XBL, with links going to the event's detail page:



Thanks to daerr for gadflying me into doing this prior to my starting to post on alien forums to spread the Planbeast gospel. (Yes, guess what's going to go in my signatures, there.)

Haha, and of course I just noticed that the time zone setting on them appears to be screwed up. Still digging. Update: Fixed.