Board Business, May 5 2011

Time Sensitive News

BringTheNoise writes: For those interested, I'll be LiveBlogging the [May 5 Scottish] election results as they come in on my blog.

Sidebar Business

Readers may notice that two new items have been added to the sidebar. A "Read the FNEs" link has been added just below the link to the board FAQs. Below those "recent comments" section the reader will find a new blogroll called "Blogs of the Slacktiverse" which contains links to the blogs of those who asked to be included on the new sidebar. We apologize in advance for any missing links and encourage anyone who wishes to be added to the sidebar to email TBAT.

Regular Board Business

Don't forget to send in items that you want included in This week in The Slacktiverse May 7/8.

The three sections of the weekend post are:

The Blogaround

Any denizen of the Slacktiverse who has posted an article to their own website during since the previous weekend post is invited to send a short summary of that article along with its permalink to TBAT. That summary and link will be included in the next weekend blogaround. This will help to keep members of our community aware of the many excellent websites hosters by other members.

In Case You Missed This

Readers of The Slacktiverse can send short summaries of, and permalinks to, articles that they feel might be of interest to other readers.

Things You Can Do

Anyone who knows of a worthy cause or important petition should send a short description of the petition/cause along with its url to TBAT.

Please email all submissions to slackmods at gmail dot com. The deadline this week will be 2000 GMT on Saturday.

Urgent or time-sensitive announcements will be posted immediately rather than being held for the next regular "This Weekend" post.

Generating Slacktiverse content.

TBAT would like to thank all the people who have submitted articles and encourages posters who are interested in contributing regularly or irregularly to send in  material. Having a number of articles that are ready for publication allows TBAT to maximize the variety of opinions as well as be responsive to "real-world" events and concerns.

TBAT have been contacting individuals who have expressed an interest in submitting materials but stress that people should not feel that they need wait to be invited to do so before sending in articles.



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The Board Administration Team
(hapax, Kit Whitfield and mmy)



Comments

[BringTheNoise]

Thank you to the TBAT for the link!

[MaryKaye]

Would it be appropriate to rename the "Repeating myself" links lower down in the sidebar? It is no longer at all clear who "myself" would be.

[The Board Administration Team]

@MaryKaye: Would it be appropriate to rename the "Repeating myself" links lower down in the sidebar?

Good point. What name do you think would be good? It is late and my brain (all three of them) is tired so the only thing that occurs to me right now is "Golden Oldies" or "Blasts from the Past."

And perhaps we should select amongst ourselves as a community which posts should be in that section.

We can retrieve from the archive any particular posts that people wish to link to if they have a description / time frame even if they can't recall the name.

BTW for people interested in how the "importing the archive" is going over at Patheos -- our counterparts over there have spent more than 80 hours already bring posts in. The Slactiverse archive is truly massive and they are trying to massage it into a more usable form.

[Lunch Meat]

I believe someone suggested "Classic Slack".

[Deird, who is unimaginative]

"Classic Slacktivist"?
"Classic Clarke"?

[Froborr]

"Clarke Classic" has my vote.

[CZEdwards (who was CSHolocene)]

Excellent pun, Froborr. Seconded.

[Leum]

I have two posts for submission:

G-spots and experiencing the divine which suggests that experiences of the divine are of something subjective, not objective and a follow-up post Being Respectfully Skeptical of the Divine which examines ways skeptics of the supernatural can respond to someone who's had a divine experience.

[Launcifer]

I don't know if anyone's seen this but my friendly neighbourhood sports columnist linked me to it today and, well, I thought people here might well want have something to say about it...

[Lunch Meat]

I also have 2 posts for submission:

Victory, yes, but for whom?, which challenges the claim that Osama bin Laden's death is somehow a victory for Christianity, and Table for Two: A Parable (Part 1), which is the first part of a parable sort of inspired by the idea that Jesus returns as a woman.

[aravind]

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I thought it might be of interest. I wrote up a bit of a theological exploration of what David Barton's claims on unitarianism might be stemming from, and just generally interesting claims trinitarians sometimes make about unitarianism.

[CZEdwards (who was CSHolocene)]

An In Case You Missed This

Phoenix Gay Dads Adopt, Raise Twelve Happy Kids

The article is pretty interesting on its own, but Arizona does not allow same-sex marriage, same-sex adoptions, nor second-parent adoptions.

[Lila]

CZEdwards, what a cool story!

[Lunch Meat]

How can anyone read that article and not feel tugging at their heartstrings? What a sweet and inspiring story!

[Friend of many QUILTBAG people]

TRIGGER WARNING: Mistreatment of QUILTBAG people.

Please take a look at this.

[Friend of many QUILTBAG people]

TRIGGER WARNING: Mistreatment of QUILTBAG people.

@TBAT: I believe this is a new petition on the issue about which I posted on May 9 @9:30PM, but the linked page hasn't loaded yet, and I'm in a bit of a hurry now. My apologies if it's the same link as before.