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I just watched Flyboys in all its slashtastic glory again and I have to say that while I know it's not actually a good movie, it's much more tightly crafted than it has any right to be and the plane stuff looks amazing. And it totally makes me cry in that boys at war way.

In other news, I have to get up and judge a tournament tomorrow. What the hell?

Attn Brits!

A petition to the Prime Minister to grant Alan Turing a postumous pardon for his homosexual conviction in the 1950's.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Pardon-4-Touring/#detail

Alan Turing, the acclaimed mathematician, creator of Colossus and the Enigma code breaking efforts that gave this country the code breaking capabilities that helped Britain, and our allies, win the 2nd World War, and created/assisted in the precursor to the technology behind the modern GCHQ after the war, a postumous pardon for being criminalised for his homosexuality. Albeit 'illegal' at the time. Importantly, a public government apology for committing him to compulsory injections of oestrogen (&/or other female hormones) that affected his physical appearance and mental ability that caused him to commit suicide in 1954.This action was reminiscent of the Nazi regime that we had just defeated, in large part assisted by him and his codebreakers!

courtesy would demand....

http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/194527.html?thread=3153375#t3153375

Man, these people are all so lucky I don't eat gluten anymore and am not pulling out the Snape lecturing factor on all of them.