interesting linkies

[swan_tower]

For gollumgollum and all you others in the health-care field: an article on unlaundered scrubs and the transmission of bacteria. What I liked? Seeing Monroe Hospital in Bloomington held up as an example of how to prevent this problem.

For, well, anybody with a weird sense of humour and/or an appreciation for Edward Gorey: The Recently Deflowered Girl. (Some pages are funnier than others.)

For anybody pissed off at M. Night Shyamalan's casting of lily-white actors for the live-action Avatar movie: addresses to complain at. The usefulness of complaining is, of course, very uncertain; but at least you can try.

For completing the schizophrenia of this link post: Change.org's ideas competition. Again, the usefulness is uncertain, but this is more than just a random web poll, and there are some very interesting ideas there. Also some that really don't strike me as major priorities (do we really need to be worrying about dog breed-specific laws when there's the Patriot Act going on?), and a bit of redundancy (spot how many candidate ideas have to do with the environment or marijuana!), but I got pointed at the competition because of the "End corporate personhood" idea, which is one of those random things that gets me all frothy at the mouth. So vote if you want to -- you need to make a profile, but that's quickly done -- and while you're there, if you want to click on the thingy for ending corporate personhood, know that it'll put a smile on my face.

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[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

For anybody pissed off at M. Night Shyamalan's casting of lily-white actors for the live-action Avatar movie: addresses to complain at. The usefulness of complaining is, of course, very uncertain; but at least you can try.

All the more baffling considering his own heritage and ancestry.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Agh, I WANT to be hopeful for the Avatar casting, but my inner cynic suspects that the white-washing will win out because common wisdom says that an all-minority cast = lower sales. The success of Avatar in the first place would seem to disprove this bit of common wisdom...but with the amount of people who came out of the woodwork after the casting to argue that Aang and Toph were clearly white because they had round eyes and light skin, Katara and Sokka and Zuko couldn't be anything but caucasians because of their eye color, and anyway what does race matter in a fantasy world...maybe not. Hilariously, some of the same people making these arguments are the exact same people who were upset about the Earthsea miniseries.

That book is awesome, though.

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

You know, while i appreciate the fact that scrubs am dirty, i'm a little baffled why they seem so intent on targeting C. diff. I mean, i imagine they go on and on about it because you can find it just about anywhere in a hospital (and in your house, and in the yard, and...), but--while it can be transmitted fecal-orally--it's more often caused by improper or overprescription of antibiotics, something that won't be changed by whether or not your scrubs are worn to the diner.

That said, i totally don't go anywhere in my scrubs, and when i worked in the hospital i left my shoes in my locker rather than wear them home. Because scrubs am dirty. I also wouldn't mind the hospitals going back to laundering everybody's scrubs like they used to.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Maybe C. diff is just one they think their readers have heard of, and therefore will recognize as a problem?

Regardless, scrubs am dirty, and laundering them on-site sounds like a good idea.

[ozziel.livejournal.com]

I can't resist...

For anybody pissed off at M. Night Shyamalan's casting of lily-white actors for the live-action Avatar movie...

What a twist!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

You are a bad, bad man.

But you knew that already.

[kurayami-hime.livejournal.com]

I will need, at some point, to hear your rant against the personhood of corporations. If nothing else, it seems another way to differentiate us. ^_^