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[healingmirth]

NPR's Three-minute Fiction is back for another round. This time the first and last lines of the story are set, and it's up to you to fill in the middle.

On a vaguely related note to the Choose Your Own Adventure ebook thingers a while back, Rob a Bank with Blast Theory

Filed under OMG ridiculous, but I love this news for so many reasons: Harvey Fierstein Is Librettist for Newsies Musical, With Songs by Menken and Feldman. I would watch the face off a stage adaptation of Newsies. I'm not even going to pretend I wouldn't.

I think the New York Times may have changed when they require registration to view articles, because these all came up pages asking me to log in. Still gonna link 'em, though.

A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

A Good Massage Brings Biological Changes, Too

Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part
Mehran’s sisters put on black dresses and head scarves, tied tightly over their ponytails. For Mehran, it’s green pants, a white shirt and a necktie, then a pat from her mother over her spiky, short black hair. After that, her daughter is out the door — as an Afghan boy.

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[jumpuphigh]

I believe that NYT signing in issue is tied to how many articles your NYT cookies say you have viewed. I used to get it fairly frequently when I was only sporadically wiping cookies but now that my cookies are wiped at the end of each browsing session, I never do. I could be wrong though.

Re: via network

[healingmirth]

That's helpful to know, thanks! I know the NYT, among other newspaper sites, has been looking into how to handle access to their content, but I haven't really been keeping up with the discussions or paying attention to patterns.