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Apr. 7th, 2011 10:15 pm- Via
weegoddess and
cowgrrl, a plausible explanation of the DDoS attacks on LJ (that LJ is home to a number of Russian anti-corruption blogs). I can't say how reliable this information is, but the latest LJ News post says "These attacks are against multiple journals worldwide, several of which are political in nature," which is consistent. - The Census again: the Guardian trails an article about the Suffragette boycott of the 1911 census (the full article in History Workshop is online, but I admit I haven't read it). Arguing that "if women don't count, neither shall they be counted," some women spent the night outside, to avoid being listed as on the premises; others simply refused to fill in the form. Emily Wilding Davison spent the night in a broom cupboard in the Houses of Parliament; Miss Davies of Birkenhead listed only a male servant on her form, adding "no other persons, but many women."
- There's a new release of the WordPress blogging software. The release comes with a (not very) explanatory haiku:
Only the geeks know
What half this stuff even means
Don’t worry — update - Speaking of poetic forms, Wendy Cope demonstrates the villanelle; I have no idea what Hugo Williams had done to deserve this.
- Also from the Guardian, some suggestions for highlights of the Camino de Santiago in Spain. The paper version ran alongside a piece by Tim Moore, whose book convinced me that I never wanted to walk the Spanish section, but I'd like to see it some day. But now it seems there's a movie, so we'd better give it a year or so to blow over...
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