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In Philly? Help some toads cross the road.

Students face charges in cyberbullying case:

According to court documents (pdf), a 15-year-old Harvard-Westlake High School Student created a Web site in 2005 to promote his singing and acting career. When fellow students discovered the site, they were reportedly "offended and put off by its ‘I am better than you’ attitude and its blatant bragging and self promotion."

Several of the students began posting threatening remarks such as “Faggot, I’m going to kill you,” and "If I ever see you I‘m . . . going to pound your head in with an ice pick."

I'm going to refrain from drawing parallels to adventures I've had as an adult with other, mindbogglingly, other adults on the Internet, mainly because it's so obvious, I don't need to.

A court has ruled that a school that canceled prom because a lesbian wanted to wear a tux and bring a female date violated that girl's rights. However, they were also within their legal rights to cancel the prom.

Tragically, Rachel Maddow is apparently not running for Senate.

Had I the time, I'd learn to vid just to do a White Collar vid to Marc Almond's "These My Dreams Are Yours."

Buffy 4.7: Okay, I have about a bazillion questions about "The Initiative," most of which Patty assures me will be answered later, so you shouldn't spoil me. But:

1. They're doing experiments on demons and they don't know about the Slayer?
2. Where's the funding coming from?
3. There weren't that many built guys on my college campus, what is up with that?
4. So are these really college guys that have been recruited to be agents... or what?
5. Jesus, X-files much?

Meanwhile, I was all "rapetastic episode #973" and then it was "oh, Spike's the angry impotent rapist!" and then it was "god help me, this is sort of hilarious" and I still can't decide if Wheedon is very, very savvy about his issues as a writer or if he's very, very oblivious to them.

Angel 1.5 and 1.6: Not bad. Not great. Still waiting for it all to gel, also, very Torchwood what with the coming back to the office covered in slime. I had a fanon!Ianto = Cordelia moment re: slime and condition of clothing. Just sit with that for a moment, will ya?

Eleven becomes the first Doctor to grace the cover of a gay magazine as Matt Smith is the cover story on this month's issue of Gay Times.

Last night Patty couldn't find her phone before bed, so I called it for her, leaving my phone on the kitchen counter I poured myself some juice. But then she started talking to me on the phone, so we had a five minute or so conversation on our cellphones, standing ten feet away from each other, looking at each other. And then we got closer, we could both hear ourselves in both phones at once and it was really screwy and weird and cute.

This weekend I have to remember to do two grant applications. One is for a pretty small amount of money, but it will marginally help defray the cost of Bristol. The other is for a much more significant amount of money (although still nothing more exciting than an international plane ticket) to help defray the cost of research on an ongoing project. The first one, is easy, and I can just bang that out. The second, I'm still formulating, and is complex, but I'd be stupid not to apply.

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I love, love that Maddow segment. It's relevant and almost fan service all at once. Which, not necessarily ideal on a news program, but kind of awesome. If I didn't already love her work, I would now.

Grants: are you aware of this?

N'aww, phones.

I am not at all sure how I feel about that ruling in the prom case yet, but I think the precedent is...interesting. I'll want to think this one through. It's good because it shores up students' civil rights, but I think a lot of school districts are going to feel empowered to take their bats and balls and sulk off home (or encourage private parties in lieu of school-sponsored ones) in the future, which doesn't exactly help, and may increase a bullying risk.

And I'm in favor of the cyberbullying case because, dude. Threats? Not okay. Not. Okay. NOT OKAY! Who doesn't understand this?! ARGH.