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A nifty site that answers the question:

Has anyone who worked on <input ... > collaborated with or otherwise supported Roman Polanski.

Thank you, I needed that and will use it.

Oh ugh.

Yes.

One or more people who worked on Iron Man 3 have either collaborated with Roman Polanski or publicly expressed support for him.

Ben Kingsley (The Mandarin)

For fun and happiness and dancing.

Wot I learned recently:

I somehow managed to fill the (tiny 60GB) drive on my work machine and could not work out where the problem was. Everything was slooooooooooow. Our fabo IT person showed me a neat tool WizTree that swiftly identified where all the big stuff was so I could delete it with extreme prejudice. Yay!

Was it... my sekrit stash of movies? ...my massive collection of music? ...the complete works of APOD?

Nooooooo, it turns out our corporate AV software suspects my constant SQL database work is evil (it is!) and quarantines it all... 10GB of deleting later me and my laptop are a lot happier.

I ran it on my home machine and found ~65GB worth of etilqs_ files courtesy of FireFox and another 30GB of outdated iDevice backups.

Or, you know, into Star Trek: Into Whiteness.

I was entertained, but this isn't a great movie. It still feels like a lot of shout-outs pasted together with CGI and I didn't grow up on original Trek so while I appreciate a good remake, I also want it to have a point. Also people keep telling me original Trek was about pushing boundaries and that it was clever... I'm not seeing it here people.

I'm not all that invested in the trifecta of white, male lead actors playing Kirk, Spock and Bones. I'm keen on Uhura and Carol and would like to see more of them.

I have to go make an offering to Bertie now.

The Australian Marriage Equality org is looking for someone who could donate some of their time. They are all kinds of lovely and if I knew how to I would be volunteering myself.

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Fun, action-ey, liked the post-credits scene.

The usual feminist critique applies.

Deeply relieved by the handling of the Mandarin which I expected to be a racist clusterfuck. ETA Having now read wistfuljane's comments I spoke way too soon :(

More enjoyable than I expected. I find Batman is much more interesting when he's enigmatic and a bit fucked up than when he's a seething mess of manpain. He's also a lot less irritating. My issues, let me show them to you :p

I love how overdone this movie is, it's all very Dick Tracey and dramatic which really works when you have a dude running around dressed as a bat.

New Zealand goes all the way.

Ridiculous and yet good fun, they took the time to give me a chance to like the characters and kept up a nice balance of humour and action.

I've not had anything to do with G.I. Joe before so the contrast between hyper technological US military people and mystical healing-wax bearing ninjas was a bit surreal.

We're doing amazing things and we need every $ to keep doing them. If you are in a position to donate, please consider doing it.

The OTW community, and the fannish community it is part of often expresses love directly through action. We've started a not so tiny organisation of our own, the Archive of Our Own, a wiki of our own Fanlore, a journal of our own Transformative Works and Culture, we're doing Legal Advocacy of our own, and one day we plan to have a Torrent of Our Own to preserve multi-media as well as what is currently hosted on the AO3.

Act now to support the projects you love.