I'm left undecided on how much LJ breached privacy with their latest derp, but my eye was more drawn to this bit -

"...the Russian-speaking audience was almost completely unaffected because the changes occurred very late at night in Russia. ...."

*backs away in fear*

Who are these weirdos who aren't up in the middle of the night and what are they ( Read more... )

BBCnews: Shale gas drilling 'contaminates drinking water'


".... Professor Jackson said that the simplest explanation of how the gas ended up in people's water supplies was down to "leaky gas well casings".

"If there are cracks or imperfections in the gas well, especially in the vertical section nearer the surface, then methane and possibly fracking ( Read more... )

Paypal-eBay just asked me if "I want to to help save a puppy from cruelty with the RSPCA".

Those bastards!

 
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It seems Etsy have got and made public everyone's past purchases and full name. You have opt-out after the event, off course, cause the new polite is to kick consent in the head and ignore basic tenets of contract law on the alteration of terms.

/ inb4broadcast

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"Right! Team, we've got to save the environment! Make people use wind power! Give me ideas!
"We could put ads on the internet."
"Brilliant!"
"But the internet is a big place.... where would we put them?"
"Fools! Put them where people who AREN'T using wind power but WOULD use wind power if you interrupted them go."
"Oh. ... Right."

( possibly mildly nsfw if your work is super paranoid )

This morning I watched the first episode of Ore no Imōto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai over breakfast. It was first broadcast Sunday just gone

...in Japan.

On Friday To Aru Majutsu no Index returns, to Japan. I expect to be watching it Sunday, maybe even Saturday. ^_^

 I imagine it would be something like this piece of epic wikipedia editing:

.... Warren recalls that it was the promise of heterosexual copulation that coaxed him away from his previous activities, and is thankful that Nate knows a way to satisfy these urges. Nate quickly finds the women who earlier crashed their car on Nate's account. He remarks ( Read more... )

It seems these days to be quite hard to passively find out about band's tours. Barely any of them use mailing lists these days, ents24 is sadly still patchy, LastFM doesn't have any auto-notification feature that I can find (am I missing something?), and I hear from the infected that FaceWhore and MySpasm are both failing at their raison d'être and ( Read more... )