I've been friended by two three different Russian accounts, neither of whom I've ever heard of and both of whom type solely in Cyrillic.

If anyone else is having this issue - although you can't stop an account from friending you, you can report a suspected bot using this form ( Read more... )

Quoting the lovely draycevixen's post:
Youtube has decided to start favouring the Iphone/Ipad so their default code that you copy to embed a vid is now Iframe code ( Read more... )

So.

We're in the market for a new wireless router, given that ours is acting up and I'm not entirely confident that I won't end up frying it with the dd-wrt fix.

Any recommendations on a particular brand/type? Any cautions against anything in particular? (I already know that Linksys will not be a favorite...)

With many thanks to draycevixen, on whose journal I saw it:

LJ has been using a third-party marketing tracker to keep tabs on external links that we use. It was meant to be all subtle (read "undetectable") but instead it caused glitches that slow things down for some LJ users. And, y'know, it's wicked sneaky besides.

caffeinepuppy has a well-written article with ( Read more... )