LJ has been purchased by SUP, who are the same entity that's been operating a Russian version of LJ. The NY Times reports on the purchase, and at this point, I'm just most interested in the "community" members who will become a part of LJ's "Advisory Board" "via an open online election process."

The Times an article on fanclubs where they noted:
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So I was reading today's New York Times' ESCAPES section and I came across this sentence:
Nearly 400 players took sides for Dark Angel, a 26-hour “scenario” paintball game based, in part, on the television show of the same name and set in a part of Virginia known more for Civil War battles than the war between the Transgenics and the Breeding Cult ( Read more... )

Elvis Costello's albums are now finally on iTunes! You can get them via this link - and I'm listening to Every Day I Write The Book for the first time in how many years?

: happy sigh

I wanted to show off my two new FLAIL icons - the Heroes one is by lay_of_luthien and the Supernatural one is by nyaubaby and I am so so squeeful over both of them! ( They're behind the cut because the Heroes one is spoilery for the most recent ep... )

Did part of the "promote supernatural" lj-community projects involve sending postcards to the tv section at Entertainment Weekly?

Because the issue with Kiefer Sutherland on the cover mentions "Superfans" sending postcards including some with crawfish and I was wondering.....

This LJ is five years old today ( Read more... )

Dammit ( Read more... )

Of interest to gamers and possibly metafandom-types:

Wired looks into the issue of whether taxation of income and holdings (real and personal property) in virtual worlds like WoW and SecondLife can, should and/or will be taxed by the IRS in the US, or, I guess, similar taxation entities in other countries ( Read more... )

Watch this video (is it also up here?), then return here and take the poll...

Poll Nerdy? Moi?

And yes, I know that the song is vaguely US-centric, but that's what the last option is for, right?

Since there's been some questions on this issue on various LJs that I read overnight:

A few years ago, the US Supreme Court stated that under the first amendment, there is no bar to the creation of virtual porn, or its dissemination among adults.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a 6-3 majority, said the 1996 federal law "turns the First ( Read more... )

In other words, hope all of you get some new Harry-canon this year.

In end of the year fandom news:

Caius has updated the HP FILK site with the FILKs that were written by me, Chris and Lilac about the TLC Fundraiser - you can find them hereThe FAP chat is open and going well - apart from a few attempts to do Interesting Things to the background ( Read more... )