who only by moving can balance

This is a screenshot of the "Fee to Pay" page on the Royal Mail website. Titles are obligatory. They offer six options, which are given (in order) as: Mr, Miss, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir.

This is a screenshot of the Contact Us form to which you are directed if you tell them that you have a problem with a Redelivery or paying a fee. Again, title is an obligatory field. It offers ten options, which are given (in order) as: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Mx, Dr, Lady, Rev, Lord, Sir.

I. CANNOT. EVEN.

Two prizes to give out today.

One goes to Google, for their campaign to get users to nag their friends to switch to gmail: never mind the fact that if people haven't already switched to gmail they've probably got good reasons for it. I'm finding this particularly screen-crawly because of the timing of the campaign relative to the G+ launch. I think I liked Google rather better before all of the completely explicit attempts to get people to consolidate their entire online life to a single provider.

The other goes to Wikipedia, specifically for the page on V for Vendetta the book, and in particular the section on characters. Four major characters are listed, of which three are male. All get at least a decent paragraph. The sole female major character... gets two lines. Two lines. This is shorter than most of the descriptions of minor characters! Everything she does is described in direct reference to V!


A bonus mention goes to Anonymous for Operation Avenge Assange. Cheers dudes, rape apologia is exactly what we need.


(By the way, if you're thinking of telling me I should just edit the wikipedia article, then -- don't. (1) The last time I made a "major change" to wikipedia, this happened; (2) I have read the novel once and subsequently returned it to the library, and feel that the people who list every damn chapter heading are probably in a better position to write an accurate summary of Evey's character than I am.)