So if we were to meet online would you be my friend?

or would you be called something else.
Susan Orlean (of many interesting things including The Susan Orlean of Spike Jones' Adaptation)
writes on new friendships in the social media age.
Jet set, you and I are Friends Type 1.
How many do you have other other types?
via Kottke

Woman and Facial Hair?!

From the Guardian:

"Over the past two months, a feminist activist in Bristol called Jessica Burton has been running a campaign called Hairy Awarey, asking women all over the land to go natural. "I've been hairy for so long that it just seems normal to me," says Burton, "but I do feel that at the moment women do not have a choice about hair . . . I suppose the excitement about Hairy Awarey was that the simplest of actions (leaving the razor on the side of the bath tub) can have life-changing effects for the women brave enough to try it.""

Us, 30?

"The prolonged adolescence of being 30

Two weeks in and I'm guessing most of us are already struggling with our New Year's resolutions ("lose weight," "eat less junk food"), those pesky commandments we routinely break every January.
In the course of this struggle, though, we are probably also avoiding some much bigger life goals, such as: Finish our education; secure a good job; buy a home; and, for many, find that special someone.
These goals, milestones really, felt inevitable a generation or two ago, but now seem to be increasingly difficult to achieve.
Let me do a little compare and contrast: At my age, my mother had completed her master's degree in English, was married, worked full time and had a home and two children.

I have some catching up to do,"

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