Link salad for Sunday

Here are a few links of interest that’ve come across my radar over the last few days. Posting them here, just to clean out some browser tabs, and to give y’all an idea of what I’ve been reading on the Interwebs!

On the topic of why the notion of “Mary Sue” is oftentimes sexist, a thing which has been bubbling around in my brain for a while now:

Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist, from adventuresofcomicbookgirl on tumblr

An Introduction to Mary Sue and Her Critical Uses and Abuses (text) from author Kate Nepveu on her dreamwidth account

On the entitlement and sexism of one particular asshat’s posting of a picture while attending a school play:

“I’m Not Apologizing for Voicing My Opinion”: Entitlement Goes to a Middle School Play from Bitter Gertrude

And on Disney’s imminent shakeup of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, relevant to my interests as an owner of QUITE a few Star Wars novels, not to mention my stint on Star Wars MUSH:

Op-ed: Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe, on arstechnica

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Link salad for Sunday

Here are a few links of interest that’ve come across my radar over the last few days. Posting them here, just to clean out some browser tabs, and to give y’all an idea of what I’ve been reading on the Interwebs!

On the topic of why the notion of “Mary Sue” is oftentimes sexist, a thing which has been bubbling around in my brain for a while now:

Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist, from adventuresofcomicbookgirl on tumblr

An Introduction to Mary Sue and Her Critical Uses and Abuses (text) from author Kate Nepveu on her dreamwidth account

On the entitlement and sexism of one particular asshat’s posting of a picture while attending a school play:

“I’m Not Apologizing for Voicing My Opinion”: Entitlement Goes to a Middle School Play from Bitter Gertrude

And on Disney’s imminent shakeup of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, relevant to my interests as an owner of QUITE a few Star Wars novels, not to mention my stint on Star Wars MUSH:

Op-ed: Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe, on arstechnica

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Murkworks.net mail and mailing lists still down

FYI to all, our mail server at Murkworks.net remains down. Dara tried to swap out the power supply last night, but that didn’t work, so now she’s working on swapping out the motherboard in the system in question.

Anyone who usually gets mail on our system, please tell folks to contact you via alternate email addresses today if they need to. If you need to ping me by email, my annathepiper address on gmail will work.

Mailing lists that we host remain also out of commission (which is particularly irritating to me, given that we just took over the filk list)!

Web services however are UP, and all web sites that we host should be working correctly, since we keep web sites on one of the other servers.

More bulletins as events warrant.

ETA: The attempt to install the motherboard was UNSUCCESSFUL. It’s apparently dead. So I’ll be going out to get us a fresh one for Dara to install. Watch this post for further updates!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Murkworks.net mail and mailing lists still down

FYI to all, our mail server at Murkworks.net remains down. Dara tried to swap out the power supply last night, but that didn’t work, so now she’s working on swapping out the motherboard in the system in question.

Anyone who usually gets mail on our system, please tell folks to contact you via alternate email addresses today if they need to. If you need to ping me by email, my annathepiper address on gmail will work.

Mailing lists that we host remain also out of commission (which is particularly irritating to me, given that we just took over the filk list)!

Web services however are UP, and all web sites that we host should be working correctly, since we keep web sites on one of the other servers.

More bulletins as events warrant.

ETA: The attempt to install the motherboard was UNSUCCESSFUL. It’s apparently dead. So I’ll be going out to get us a fresh one for Dara to install. Watch this post for further updates!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.