WHY THE FLIP AM I STILL NOT GETTING MY LJ NOTIFICATIONS IN ANY TOLERABLE MANNER?! I either get nothing at all and only find comments when I click entries randomly, or I get notifications from comments that were posted a week, two days, whatever ago. WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY HAS IT BEEN GOING ON FOR FOREVER?! Why is no one complaining about this? ( Read more... )

Okay, what is this? Is Archive Of Our Own seriously going to put me on some waiting list where I have to sit and wait for them to maaaybe graciously supply me with an invite code some day? At least that's what it says on the sign-up page. Did you guys have to wait? I'm not amused ( Read more... )

A recent comment posted by ryosato has made me think that there's probably more people left who haven't gotten wind of this but who would want to know. Or should know, even?

karyn_nomore is a pretty much anonymous journal that seems to be dedicated to uncovering the mysteries surrounding inner_justin's abrupt departure from fandom. It's pretty boggling to read ( Read more... )

I have just learned of a code which you can paste into your CSS that will hide the Facebook and Twitter checkboxes in the comment section on your journal, thereby preventing people to share comments made on your posts and revealing your journal as the source. The code doesn't completely remove the FB/Twitter boxes, but it hides them, which is ( Read more... )

rinmonsterer: (rephrased) go occupy yourself while I finish your present.
Sake: k! i'll go look if I got any b-day wishes on LJ!
...
Rin: (later, still working on the present) how're the LJ wishes?
Sake: :D i didn't get a single one
Rin: D: dude, did you know i never got any notification of your bday? did you change your bday date or smth?
Sake: when did my f- ( Read more... )

Why exactly did I just get an email from Amazon.com, informing me that they have awesome Romantic Comedy DVD offers? I have never received anything remotely like this before! Also, I usually order everything from Amazon.de or Amazon.at, so... weird.

And you know what the fricken craziest thing is about this? The email subject says:Amazon.com: ( Read more... )

Why am I still not receiving 50% of my LJ notifications?And that has been going on for like, a week already? WHAT IS HAPPENING? WHY ALWAYS ME!?!?! Seriously, go and look at statistics: If one person out of 1,000 is having computer problems, you can bet all you got on my name. But do I ever actually win anything based on the fact of statistics ( Read more... )

Some of you might remember Pastor Fred Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Yes, he's the guy whose community is responsible for the godhatesfags.com site (amongst other craziness).

Anyway, it seems his granddaughter Megan is going pop star right now, and in her granddad's tradition she and the ambitious folks of the WBC ( ( Read more... )

Gotta love the internet ( Read more... )

Okay, so, my recent spam filter developments have me slightly worried.
And we're talking about my private, non-fandom address, right?

A really suspiciously large amount of my recently received spam looks like this:
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