The IM LJ-ifyer. (Via juliarandolph, who got it from fulguritis)

Description: "Do you prefer to use LJ tags when referring to your friends in your journal? Isn't it a pain in the ass to change it manually when they appear ten times in an IM log? Just paste a log snippet below, enter the names to swap, and your conversations will be clickable. Alternatively, you can ( Read more... )

Improvements to Livejournal:

The limit for the number of friends a journal can have has been raised: Starting immediately, the friend limit for Basic, Plus, and Early Adopter accounts has been raised from 750 to 1000 friends. It's been raised to 2000 for Paid and Permanent accounts.

For paid users, a new Edit Journal Privacy option, which will ( Read more... )

Neigh means Neigh!: 69-year old California resident Alfred Thomas Steven was arrested last week for covering himself in oil, rolling around in oats and allowing horses to lick his naked body clean.

If everyone on Earth jumped at the same time, would it affect our orbit?

Posters to 42answers present answers in search of questions. Post a sentence and see ( Read more... )

liz_marcs has an amazing post up which talks about the nature of truth and propaganda, stories that must be told, VJ Day and Pearl Harbor, fearmongering, tonight's ABC "docudrama" and 9/11. It's more than that.... I can't do it justice in a blurb.

I Remember Townsend

"FDR was right. Fear itself is the enemy. It makes you do stupid things. It makes you ( Read more... )

Preliminary reports from Australia say Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has died after being stung by a stingray. He leaves behind a wife, daughter and son. CNN Obit. More here.

From the Mighty Gord, a link to "The Phantom Menace," an essay addressing the recent foreign teacher sex-maniac media scandal in Korea. Gord also posted his thoughts. You ( Read more... )

Testing one of the new layouts....


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Miscellaneous
LJ: The Customize Screen has been overhauled and more layouts are now available to paid and plus users. Also, the Navigation Strip can now be customized by color.

Details on Apple’s battery recall.

Author David Brin predicted this would happen one day: Dallas man foils a robbery 4,589 miles away in Liverpool England, while ( Read more... )

I enabled LJ's new Navigation Strip feature. The link contains instructions on how to do it on your own journals. :)


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I posted a link to supergee’s new community, creative_praise on Monday.

blackfyr has created a similar community, called the_velvet_hand.

Both communities were created as a result of a question asked by lysana on Sunday. Posts in both communities will sing the praises of different LJ’ers.


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At a suggestion from lysana, supergee has created creative_praise: “This is the community for praising fellow lj members. Irony, cattiness, and snarking are enjoyable pastimes, but they have their own communities, and posts engaging in them will be kicked off. As Thumper’s evil twin brother said, “If you can’t something nice, STFU.””

The Strawberry One-Act Festival will take ( Read more... )