I'm tired of the ads that take over my screen ( Read more... )

National Geographic link

In other news, Livejournal is a piece of crap that crashes my browser when it decides to load a full-window-dimming ad.

When you pull up a slow-loading ad, and when I get sick of waiting for it and hit reload, and that crashes my browser, it makes me want to stop posting messages here, you piece of crap!

Not an April Fool's joke!
And this is why I was disappointed with Amazon vs. publishers re: ebooks and authors taking the pro-publisher-wants-to-raise-prices side of that disagreement.
And yes, this is Mike Stackpole writing an article for the Huffington Post--way to go, Mike! :)

Michael A. Stackpole asks: Who Benefits From High Ebook Prices?

Thanks to stannex! for linking this, it is awesome. :)

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super-me, check it out

http://cpbherofactory.com/

(BTW the names it gives you are random, I used Photoshop to edit out the one they provided and added in my own.)

There's a bit of a hoopla going on right now about copyrights and art sources for artists.
The street artist Shepard Fairey created the now-famous three-color "Obama Hope" posterTurns out the image is based on an Associated Press photo by freelance photographer MAnnie Garcia ( Read more... )

Here, just read it, she is a smart lady chastising a dumb fellow. link

I somehow missed the Simpsonize Me! marketing tool for Burger King/The Simpsons Movie, found it today, thought I'd give it a run. The results:


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I resisted getting on Facebook for a long, long time. "I don't need another social networking site. And if people want updates on me, they can just check my livejournal. Heck, I never bother to update my MySpace, why would I update a new network ( Read more... )