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Three word phrase

Rinku — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:04:25 -0800

Three word phrase - webcomics drawn in five minutes by Ryan Pequin.

Hen Kerlien

Greg Nog — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:49:36 -0800

Hen Kerlien (or, hěn kě lián). For when an anglophone needs a phrase that suggests a child walking alone in the world.

In related news, productivity around the world jumped exponentially...

zarq — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:14:01 -0800

On Tuesday, Gawker media was taken offline by a German ddos attack. Today, three of the 'net's largest social media sites: Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal, are experiencing similar outages. Twitter now reports they are under a denial-of-service attack.

I'm Lovin' It

netbros — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:43:45 -0800

"It's true that McD's hiring process and training is essentially getting you to breathe on a mirror, and, if it fogs up, you're in... but that doesn't mean we're all bad. Just that we're a mixed bag. A lot of the time, McDonalds is the only place that will hire teenagers or immigrants, regardless of their skills, especially in todays climate." McDonald's Talk "How the heck do you tell customers you can't take their trash through the window? I tried the health violation thing, but they don't seem to care. I usually say, we're not supposed to, and there's a trashcan around the corner (hard to see if you're in the drive-thru). I've recently added on why we can't (health vio), as I just found out. Some chick got really uppity with me over it last week because I wouldn't throw her Hardee's crap out. Um, hello, honey, do I look like a trashcan (or a bank, for that matter)? I have problems with the cops who come through too (quote, "Yeah, what am I gonna put in it?"), who think they're damned special. Still, rules apply to them too. Anyway, ranting aside, original question, what's a good way to turn these folks down? I hardly seem rude when I tell them but they just don't get it, I guess. :/"

With Great Scanners Come Great Responsibility

Legomancer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:55:10 -0800

Scans_daily is was a LiveJournal community specializing in posting scans of comic books, both older and current ones. On Friday night, however, the community got suspended, allegedly because comics author Peter David complained that one of his books was posted to it (David denies this in the linked blog post.) Regulars at scans_daily are outraged that the community has been shut down, claiming that the ability for people to "try before they buy" encouraged readers to buy more comics. Other comics fans are not so kind and cite that, for better or worse, the community was knowingly violating copyright. The community has resurfaced and is at least discussing what changes should be made to avoid this "unpleasantness" in the future and make the community more "copyright friendly". We've seen these issues come up with movies, games, and music; now it's comic books' turn to try to figure out what to do about the internet and digital technology.

Livejournal circling the drain?

rmd1023 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:50:38 -0800

Is the death of Livejournal immanent? After being bought by a company in Russia just over a year ago, Livejournal may be on the rocks. They've just announced big , big layoff of tech folks at Livejournal. allegedly with no severance for or warning to the employees. If you want to back up your livejournal, here's a couple of ways:

ljdump
ljarchive (see also the post here)

Forty Four Presidents and a letter to a cat...

jim in austin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:40:08 -0800

Forty Four Presidents and a letter to a cat. Starring: Grover Cleveland's love life! McKinley's untimely death! Truman singing! Taft in the bath! & more...

Ping.fm: update everything

nthdegx — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:23:33 -0800

Ping.fm lets you update your social network statuses, blogs and microblogs simultaneously from one place. The current sign-up beta code is "tastyping". Plus you can configure it to update only certain sites, so you can get it to update only Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook if you want to change your status; or only Twitter, Jaiku and Pwnce if you want to microblog; or only Blogger, Tumblr and LiveJournal if you want to update blogs. Services currently supported: Bebo Blogger brightkite Facebook hi5 Jaiku LinkedIn LiveJournal Mashable MySpace Plaxo Pulse Plurk Pownce Tumblr Twitter Xanga

ZOMG flukes!

owhydididoit — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:12:34 -0800

WTF, Nature? is a blog about natural oddities. Kinda like Cute Overload, but with a different adjective.

The Open Source Boob Project

Hildegarde — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:25:03 -0800

The Open Source Boob Project. At Penguicon, we had buttons to give away. There were two small buttons, one for each camp: A green button that said, "YES, you may" and a red button that said "NO, you may not." And anyone who had those buttons on, whether you knew them or not, was someone you could approach and ask: "Excuse me, but may I touch your breasts?" Once taken online, the grand flurry of reactions have been decidedly mixed. The main link is awkward to read; it starts with a bunch of caveats and explanations. The original post comes after all the updates and edits. And there are a lot (and I mean a lot of comments, many of them very thoughtful and interesting, some from people who were there, many from those who weren't.

Pulp Shakespeare

2or3whiskeysodas — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:48:30 -0800

from ACT I SCENE 4

J: Your pardon; did I break thy concentration?
Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
Allow me then to offer a response.
Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray. Your turn. [via boingboing. sort of, although weirdly they link not to the original author's LJ but to the LJ of someone quoting him]

ANTM star and model blogs domestic violence

onlyconnect — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:19:13 -0800

Elyse Sewell blogs domestic abuse in her Livejournal . Previously. Think you had a shitty weekend? Nah. Why not compare it to mine? . . . On the drive home (home?) from Albuquerque to Portland, my ex-boyfriend got sh*tfaced and roughed me up in a Sacramento hotel. I escaped from the room through a blitzkrieg of violence and talked to hotel security, who called the fuzz. Frankly I'm not even sure I should be posting this but in her journal comments Elyse has said that she understands she has posted to a public forum and doesn't want to be able to pretend it didn't happen. Over the weekend Elyse's now-ex-boyfriend, Marty Crandall of The Shins, was arrested for domestic violence against Elyse in a hotel room; his time in jail can be followed here (enter the name Martin Crandall). Elyse was arrested as well (her journal notes that she bit him in self defense and he demanded her arrest) but her parents posted bail. Her livejournal entry recounts the incident in her normal dry, mordant style, noting that her jailers recognized her from America's Next Top Model. There are a few press reports, too, mostly citing to the livejournal site. Is there a clear downside for Elyse in livejournaling this, as long as everything she says in her comments is true? My first instinct (and other commenters as well) was to suggest she take the post down in case it was used as evidence, but on the other hand as long as it is true could it actually hurt her in court?

50 Answers

Rock Steady — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:17:02 -0800

50 Answers. Like AskMe, but not helpful, and in comic form.

6A sells LJ to SUP

finite — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:20:58 -0800

Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal: Russia

Fate: 1 Internets: 0

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:03:43 -0800

Newsfilter: 30,000 customers in the San Francisco area lost power today at about 1:50pm PDT, in a series of power failures which knocked out a major datacenter hub: 365 Main. The hub controls servers for many social media sites, including Technorati, Netflix, Yelp, Craigslist and all Six Apart properties, including TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox. (6A's twitter stream has updates.) More here and here. Amusingly enough, 365 Main tempted fate and released a press release today patting themselves on the back for "two years of 100-percent uptime".

livejournal suspends hundreds of accounts

6550 — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:00:11 -0800

livejournal permanently suspends hundreds of accounts under pressure from "watchdog" group Warriors for Innocence (sketchy, possibly spyware laden site created by pretty shady people). Though the aim of the crackdown is seemingly to protect children from online predators, many suspended journals and communities apparently had nothing to do with promoting pedophilia, and the broad-based approach taken by livejournal has many users irate (over 3700 comments as of posting), especially in light of the fact that that neither livejournal nor the owner Six Apart have publically addressed users, though Six Apart did speak to CNET as linked above.

Vancouver woman missing in Syria

GuyZero — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:49:35 -0800

Vancouver woman missing in Syria. Nicole Vienneau has gone missing while travelling in Syria. Her brother, Matthew, has started a blog in hopes of gathering information about what's happened to her. Information has already started coming in from other travellers about her last known whereabouts. via Matthew's interview on CBC radio this morning.

RPG's, Fanfiction or some mutant hybrid?

FritoKAL — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:58:47 -0800

Journal-Based RPG's. They range from Buffy to X-Men, and everything in between. Some are short lived, some have gone on for years and spawned fan-communities of their very own. This is the Livejournal RPG. Not all of these are on Livejournal, many are on LJ-clone sites, but the name has stuck. Want to find one? There's even sites designed to advertise the games. Want to complain about a really awful one? Or a bad player? Or a bad mod? Or a bad ANYTHING? There's a place for that too. A note of my lack of bias - I play in one of these, but the one I'm in is not represented in this post. That would be Bad.

"The first comment is El-Oh-El-exclamation mark-exclamation mark-one-exclamation mark."

divabat — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:33:27 -0800

Blogs by Phone - for when your family and friends have trouble keeping up with your blog posts. (YouTube video from SixApart)

Content Management Systems I Would Or Wouldn’t Fuck

feelinglistless — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:05:13 -0800

Content Management Systems I Would Or Wouldn’t Fuck [via]

Sex baiting on craigslist

mathowie — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:17:54 -0800

Andy Baio blows the lid off a disturbing new trend: sex baiting on craigslist. The story is pretty simple: man makes up fake Casual Encounters ad posing as a woman looking for a good time, then he publishes any and all responses in a public forum. All hell breaks loose.

Always down for some terrific writing

blasdelf — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:37:58 -0800

Hating America is the latest amazing post on what appears to be an incredibly compelling Livejournal, where wonderful posts have been made on topics that include Legal Temping, Being a Gentrifier, Fluency in Spanish, and Loving the NBA.

Snap! Oh no she di'int!

Ricky_gr10 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:18:27 -0800

Anderson Cooper Gives me a Boner (Via).

LJ tarts itself up, puts on high heels...

insomnia_lj — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:31:46 -0800

LiveJournal adopts banner ads. SixApart has broken a longstanding promise/agreed-upon principle (recently deleted) and is adding banner ads to the service, which will be visible to the general public and approximately 95% of their users. Last year's April Fool's joke suddenly not very amusing anymore. Is SixApart's bubble a bit overinflated?

Bears are godless killing machines without a soul

tapeguy — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:40:16 -0800

Превед! Russia's newest internet craze involves a painting called Bear Surprise [NSFW] by New York artist/musician John Lurie. "Превед", or "preved", is an intentional misspelling of "privet", or "hello" in Russian. There's a month-old Livejournal community dedicated to the meme and even a branded range of condoms. [Via freewilliamsburg.com.]