A List Apart is conducting their first survey of web professionals. It only took a few mintutes and I’ll be really interested to see the results. Oh, and there are prizes!

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the federal ban of late-term abortions. While it concerns a very uncommon procedure, the ban is particularly frightening in that it does not provide any sort of provision for situations where the mother’s life may be at risk. This sets precedent whereby future cases could be decided using the lack of that provision in the existing ban as a footstool to introduce further restrictions. Now is the time to start making yourself heard! Even if Roe is never overturned, this Court could make it so hard for women to get abortions that it would be effectively the same thing.

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Diane reminded me that there are probably people out there vitally interested in what is surging through our headphones feeding voices from another world directly into our brains. So here’s another installment of Listening Party:

• Band of Horses - Everything All the Time Seattle sounds better than it did when I lived there.
• Bloc Party - A Weekend In the City Sure, it has ups and downs (and a ripoff of a Bangles cover of a Simon and Garfunkel song), but sounds good on the headphones.
• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Just lovely. My favorite album of the year.
• The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America “She was a really cool kisser and she wasn’t all that strict of a christian. She was a damn good dancer but she wasn’t all that great of a girlfriend.” Awesome.
• Lily Allen - Alright, Still Boinky ska-pop. It’ll probably really get on my nerves in a month or two.
• Parliament - Parliament’s Greatest Hits ‘Cause for a minute there it felt like spring.

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