http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130

UPDATE on June 24: We've received some questions in the comments about default privacy settings for this beta. Nothing has changed with your default privacy settings. The beta is only open to people who already chose ( Read more... )

A week or two ago, my computer decided to crash and not boot. Some troubleshooting established that the motherboard* seemed to have spontaneously fried itself - it was clearly receiving power, but wouldn't POST**, no matter what I did. Since I needed a new motherboard, I decided this would be a good opportunity to upgrade my CPU*** as well. I ( Read more... )

Someone posted this graphic on doctorwho a while ago, and Nathaniel and I decided we wanted T-shirts with it on. So we got a couple of blank T-shirts and some fabric paint, and turned the graphic into a stencil, and ... voilá!

The image was originally posted here as a wallpaper and was made by tremas.

( One image, 640x480 )

I am not a big gamer, but I love my Diablo II (and am looking forward to Diablo III!) and prefer to play online on BattleNet. I'd love to play with people who can type coherently and don't toss around words like 'fag' and 'retard'. These days I've been playing on the US-East network, but I'm happy to meet folks on US-West or Europe or Asia. My ( Read more... )

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349

Warning for squealing Microsoft fanboys and fangirls: This video contains Windows bashing.

I had to share; I'm immensely proud of myself!

I used the Ten/Tardis stencil mentioned here. It took about 2.5 hours, all told, and part of his hand came off when I was trying to remove one of the tiny bits, but I'm still really pleased with how it turned out. It was a big hit with the trick-or-treaters of about 8 and up, although as I'm in the ( Read more... )

Thanks to http://sayakb.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-you-want-vista.html via planetubuntu.


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http://mugshot.org/person?who=3rXgJSBDQFzCry

My Mugshot profile has all my info ( Read more... )

Watching Doctor Who, and I'm so torn ... David Tennant is completely brilliant but I loved Christopher Eccleston and I miss him! *angst*

(Thanks ganimede.)

They've now decided that it's an offence to even link to any prohibited content even if it's hosted OFF LJ.

For more information on that, there's a post here. If you want to see LJ say exactly what is and what isn't, take a look at this entry in lj_biz. And if you want to see LJ answer for all of the recent mess, there's an open letter to LJ ( Read more... )