Ordinarily I like to take care of housekeeping first before I post, but I've realized that it's probably going to take me a lot longer to sort out my tags issue, so I might as well just post and tags be damned for the time being.

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oo1. Are you wondering where all those little preview pop-ups came from that might be peppering your LJ wherever you've included a link? See this post from news. You can select/deselect the Graphic Preview option here.

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I've been absent for a while on a mental non-holiday, which always means that things pile up when I come limping back. A lot has happened this week. This entry is only going to touch on a very few things.

oo1. As some of you have probably (hopefully) heard by now, Very Bad Things Have Been Happening in Jena, Louisiana. I learned of this abominable ( Read more... )

ETA: It's finally live! YAY! linaerys's dad made this hilarious Ugly Doll cartoon. Click here!

• Happy Birthday to bunnysquirrel!
  
  
• Life has been so busy and exhausting and extremely fun and also very sad (2 farewells in one day, for example) lately that I haven't had time to really do anything online, much less keep up with LJ. I promise to catch up on comments this week ( Read more... )

I really like what occupiedneptune wrote today in her post entitled "Media literacy in the blog society." What you won't find: alarmist dialogue. What you WILL find: a respectful poke to educate ourselves first. Everyone should read it. And I agree with what some of you have been saying: protesting (IF it is truly required) with the wallet does wonders.
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To block your public post images from being included in the LJ rss feed ( Read more... )

A thousand apologies: If a post you could previously see has disappeared, particularly if it contained media, that is because it is now f-locked. So sorry! If you want to see it, you know what to do.

I finally finished watching Sunday's Torchwood which was amazing and emotional and unexpected. With each additional episode that I watch, I realize ( Read more... )

So in addition to f-locking more posts, there is another change that has been happening slowly over the last few weeks. ( boring housekeeping post, but if you use my tags you should probably read )

Perhaps it is because both N and I are very sick right now and I am wheezing like crazy and coughing and having trouble breathing, but reading koalathebear's recent post about being sick in China really touched me. I think she describes very well the difficulties of being in a foreign country without the proficiency that may be expected in a language that is ( Read more... )