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From ragged riot grrrl roots to Portlandia, we pay homage to the late, great Sleater-Kinney.

These 17 things will make you well more than 17% saner if you download them. I’d venture to say 170%!

In which I respond to a BBC interview featuring yours truly on the matter of “booth babes” and call for a better apology from Gary Shapiro, all-around really influential technology guy.

What secondary pixelated world will you be occupying to avoid your respective untold holiday horrors this year?

My Drunk Kitchen’s Hannah Hart is full of the holiday spirit(s)!

Because hell is other people.

“Skyrim is an example of a game that pushes the bounds of gaming as we know it, peeling back the surface layer to reveal just what video games can do as a medium for something more.”

Taylor’s Team Pick: Relive every single homophobic and oppressively heteronormative moment that ever aired on Friends.

Because it’s no fun when people can guess what you are.

I have lived in Portland for one month. Here are 28 of my 100% accurate observations to date, translated with some fidelity from the bar napkin I scrawled them on.

“You can probably see a line winding its way from an Apple store to where you’re standing.”

“I remember my first iPod; it had the four red illuminated buttons and it never left my side. I remember my first smartphone: it was an iPhone. I remember picking up an iPad with skepticism and setting it down and knowing that I didn’t just want one — I needed one.”

Facebook’s Big New Thing and why you’re going to totally love it or want to kill it with fire.

“My favorite color is plaid.” Autostraddle cozies up with rising YouTube star and homo-next-door heartthrob Hannah Hart.

Two totally sweet ways to let an endless, all-you-can-stream cascade of music wash over you at all times.

“Hey Dude” is a show that happened on TV

How Facebook’s approach to online identity is inherently flawed, especially if you like to queer things up.

Google+ is taking the interweb by storm! Read up on what you need to know and snag an invite while you’re at it!

Cartoons to make your day considerably more whimsical.

Taylor went, saw, and conquered at E3 2011 last week. What are the hottest upcoming games? Well, wouldn’t you like to know! (Elder Scrolls V, BioShock Infinite and more!)

Exactly what it sounds like: One queer in a kitchen making half-assed grilled cheese sandwiches. And it is sublime.

What really counts about the iPad 2 isn’t the iPad 2 at all.

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.

Watch Watson the supercomputer face off against puny humans on Jeopardy!

Because getting-shit-doneliness is next to Godliness.