I just stumbled on someone (sicgurrl seems to be their lj handle) posting an unrelated comment to another community, who had once memorably posted to ontd_political... and still has the following in their livejournal PROFILE:

"ontd_political is a racist, bigoted community that allows intolerance toward a certain group of people. The mods are bullies and racist. I had a ( Read more... )

Someone posted an article with the following headline to ontd_political: 'US analysts conclude MH17 downed by aircraft' ("KUALA LUMPUR: INTELLIGENCE analysts in the United States had already concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile, and that the Ukrainian government had had something to do with it ( Read more... )

For your (hopefully considerable!) enjoyment, here are the funniest reviews I have ever read. Most but not all are book reviews.

Yes, I collect these, what of it? LOL.

(1) A review of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' by E.L. James which convinced me that I never wanted to read that sh*t. This review, complete with pictures, had me ROTFLMAO.

PART ONE
PART ( Read more... )

My page Authors Behaving Badly has been updated with MORE EXAMPLES.

Read more here.

I just updated the Authors Behaving Badly page, with new examples added.

(From Time.com)

Cyberbullying’s Latest Frontier: Amazon Book Reviews


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Apparently, even academics do it!

I'll just repost the entire article, because I just can't believe it. (Article is from The Guardian)
( Sneaky personal attacks galore under the cut... )

Google has now begun saving and integrating all information relating to one individual, on its online services. This means that if you use several services owned by Google all this information would be consolidated.

Google has also begun saving all internet searches (=web searches) run from its browser. So if a person logged in to their gmail ( Read more... )

Three things which Canadians should be out in the streets protesting:

#1 Bill C-11.

This bill could provide the means for government censorship of the internet (it has been referred to as being similar to the US SOPA and PIPA bills).

Find out more here, here, and here.

#2 Bill C-30.

Do you want the government to be able to see everything you do online ( Read more... )

As my own personal protest against the PIPA and SOPA acts which are under consideration in the U.S., I temporarily blacked out my livejournal from the 18/01/2012 to 19/01/2012.

Thank you.

Information on how you can help (i.e. whether you are American or not).