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The Los Angeles Times announces that it will no longer refer to people as “illegal.” Happy May Day. http://m.colorlines.com/archives/2013/05/los_angeles_times_drops_the_i-word.html

Another Website is Possible: http://c4ss.org/ Re-design courtesy of William Gillis. Unveiled to-day in honor of No Bosses / No Borders Day.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174093/does-guantanamo-exist?utm_source=feedly And they say pragprogs have no memories I guess their lives are much like mine And the little plastic castle Is a surprise every time And it’s hard to say If they’re happy But they don’t seem much to mind. . . .

X Files, season 1. Episode: “Young at Heart.”

Anarchist typography: in Distro booklets, the first footnote symbol is always a dagger. And the second is always a double-dagger.

Normally I enjoy preparing footnotes for Anarchist Classics booklets, but there is perhaps nothing sadder than writing up footnotes about entryist politicking and internal in-fighting among partisan Communist splinter-sects. I’d almost be happier just copy-pasting a standard footnote reading something like “RCP-SWP-CPUSA-Schachtmanite deviation-PLP-WWP-RYM II-WSA-Browderite deviation-M2M-MIM-BFD-GTH-gasdfjlakjrfa-yadda-yadda-yadda. Some day soon, none of this will matter even a little bit.”

http://kottke.org/13/04/the-new-100-bill Every time USGov puts out a new bill design, the money gets uglier and uglier.

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/606-a-cucumber-map-of-europe Cucumbers.

Making plans to get up to Birmingham on Wednesday, for ACIJ’s immigration-freedom march (Linn Park, Birmingham, 4:00pm-7:00pm, May 1). http://www.acij.net/

Here’s another reason not to use blackletter Gothic script fonts: some day, far in the future, people searching through Google Books will be given a false positive telling them that your perfectly innocuous book about Inter-Club Duplicate Whist is actually the book of an Implicate Racist: http://books.google.com/books?id=1Z4mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Racist%22&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=%22Racist%22&f=false