I just realised that I never posted here to wish you all 'Happy New Year', so...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

In other news, for the writers among you'se...

I'm now running spacebigbang, so if you think you can manage a fic of at least 8,000 words set in space, please sign up.


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Happy Birthday Madiba.

I don't think many people are going to notice but I've done a friends cut. Most of the journals I culled were ones that had not been posted to in a long time. A few others were ones that seemed to be defunct as the reason for their creation has passed - for example, journals for LJ Idol ( Read more... )

"Critics United" designate themselves the Guardians of Appropriate FF.N Content, bullying writers with vile comments, and dog-piling on the 'report' function to get fics they don't approve of removed.Granted, some of the stories they've gone after may have violated an FF.N rule. However, using bullying and intimidation to harass fic writers is ( Read more... )

Originally posted by moth2fic at More signal boosting for Internet Privacy.

Here's their next move: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States.  AND DON'T THINK IT DOESN'T AFFECT YOU IF YOU LIVE ELSEWHERE!!  The knock on effects will be global.And CISPA would provide a ( Read more... )

As most of you may have noticed, with the latest code push - Release 91 - LJ has decided that cuts need to be highlighted with the following before them...

✂···  [+]* ( Cut Link Text Here )

* [Cut unfolder, if LJ Addons for Firefox installed.]

Yeah. Very pretty LJ. Not.

Anyway, this post is a 'how to' on getting rid of this fugliness.

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If you are going to do this, you need to do it before March 1st. It has been said that users will not be able to do anything about this after that date.With reference to Google's policy changes and how everything you do with your Google account will be tied together into their super-cauldron of information, you will probably want to clear your ( Read more... )

Release 88Honestly, I can't believe LJ: a. thought these changes were a good idea, and b. made the changes despite the fact that when the details leaked, people told them in droves that they didn't want them ( Read more... )

Via marthawells
Norilana Books is having a Foreclosure and Cross-Country Moving Book Sale. Vera has lost her house to the Bank of America, her health insurance, and is moving cross-country with her cancer survivor mother and four elderly pets. She runs a small press publisher and her books are available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online ( Read more... )

Some basic baseball icons. I know there are MLB 'Batter' logo icons like these but I've not seen individual teams before, so I decided to make some.

Just AL teams for now - will do NL teams on request.

Enjoy!

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