T-shirts

I'm thinking of taking my favorite screenshot of Sarah and adding the caption "Life on Earth can be an adventure too." and just running off a one-shot shirt using transfer paper from Staples. And maybe doing a montage of shots of all of them (point me at your favorite screenshots of Martha!) and dubbing it Team TARDIS.

But in the meantime, here's what caught my fancy on CafePress, y'all:

For the SJA fans (and possibly those who miss Max Headroom)

This'll freak the mundanes!

I ADORE this graphic! But you know why I want to do my own shirt? I can get a V-neck that fits for less than $37.50, thanks.

BWA!

Here you go, Jeff!

It's a sweet sentiment, but more suited to a button, I think. (Which reminds me, I have to find my "I hear you're looking for aliens, Agent Mulder. You may call me the Doctor" and "Doctor Who: even our canon isn't canon" buttons.)

This one says it all!

*snort*

Very tempting

Also very tempting - it's the last line that makes it

Partial Review - Survival of the Sickest

This is a partial review because I am not through reading the book but, as it is nonfiction, I'm not worried about a sudden poor plot turn. The book is Survival of the Sickest by Dr. S. Moalem (medical researcher) and J. Prince (Clintonian speechwriter). Touting the admittedly controversial but also fascinating concept that many of the dread diseases we suffer now made evolutionary sense in the past, it's best described as Cold Case: MD, where Moalem starts with a disease and then backtracks along human evolution until he finds a circumstance where the trait could self-select for survival. (As he puts it, "Why would you take a drug that would kill you in 40 years? To keep you alive through tomorrow.")

It's charmingly written - not surprising when your ghostwriter was a speechwriter for the glibbest President in modern history - and thought-provoking. There are funnier bits, but this is the one that drove me to retype it, because it looks like it will be of the largest interest to the largest cross-section of the f-list.

( Vitamin D, folic acid, and racial coloring )

This isn't as sexy as tying diabetes back to ice wine and the ice age with a side stop at frogs (a better example than Cold Case would be calling the book Connections with a medical degree) but still, interesting.

Although not specifically about forensics, this'll tickle the forensics fans and historians alike, not to mention the bio majors.

Bits & Bobs

Fic Rec: calapine's brand new Passing the Torch

“Where’s the Doctor?” asked Romana. “This is his TARDIS, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, but he copped it a few months back. Epic, it was. Lots of stuff blowing up. Fate of the universe at stake and all that, and he took my hand right at the end and said, Donna, Donna, my love, I want you to carry on my awesome legacy to the universe. Then he gave me this book.” She pulled a book out of her coat pocket and waved it at Romana. The title was untidily scrawled in thick black marker pen (the atrocious handwriting was undoubtedly the Doctor’s). It read: How To Carry On My Legacy by The Doctor.


A TINY RANT ON INTENT:

Paul Cornell has said that a scene of Owen propositioning a woman, being turned down, and then using an alien drug on her to put her into heat for him wasn't "intended" as a rape scene.

Now Amanda of Pandagon has taken another blog off my reading list by saying that peppering her new book with racist imagery was "ironic" and "not intended" to be offensive.

One more time for the slow class, people: Intent doesn't mean jack shit. The Titanic wasn't INTENDED to sink.

Deal with what is, because whether you intended it or not, it's still what IS. Own it. Put on your big kid undies, admit it and apologize, and not one of those "I'm sorry you're offended" weasel deals, either. People are a hell of a lot more willing to forgive when it's phrased "I'm sorry, I meant X and it's come out Y, and Y is a wrong thing that hurts people, period" than any variation of "I meant X and if 5000 of you see Y, what's all y'all's problem?" And even if you finally say the former, you lose a hell of a lot of points if you start with the latter.

The. Titanic. Wasn't. Intended. To. Sink.