I like this idea even though it’s a THING on the LIVEJOURNAL that everyone is doing.
So you pick adjectives that describe the person and then the person sees what adjectives others pick. The idea is that you get some clue which things about your personal self assessment make sense to others and vice versa.
honk.
When I get comment notification mail now, and I click on a link like “unscreen this comment” or “delete this comment” in the mail, it takes me to the old school url and I get a message that the url doesn’t match the journal owner. Then I have to do it all manually, instead.
Does anyone know where one actually reports bugs like this? The Support thing has never worked for me; I get a response six weeks later after it’s all fixed asking me why I’m reporting this because it’s all fixed.
1) When posting on someone’s LJ, doublecheck that you’re logged in first and not about to post anonymously! Everyone’s been making this mistake lately. It makes it hard because then I have to run around unscreening things.
2) If you’re stuck on Mac OS 9, iCab appears to do everything necessary to make the site work. At least the equivalent version for OS X does, and I believe they’re feature-equivalent.
3) IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, INVOLVE A COW
This is mesmerizing:
Grafik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way: Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal perameter that comprises its structure.
Cat Circus photos from the always interesting labrujah
Hello. I am currently at work watching the COPS New Year’s Marathon, brought to you by Smallpox, an FX Channel Event.
Because so much is riding on your, um, head.
I don’t usually like LJ “memes” but this one allows me the indulgence of self-aggrandizing oneupmanship.
This week our entire development network went down hard because someone in the IT dept pushed some boxes in the back of a closet and hit a power strip.
Subject: A Christian Man want help from you
+ received new remaster/re-release of Gang of Four’s Entertainment!/Yellow E.P.
Ladies and gentlemen, the newest stamp from the Mexican postal service, commemorating a beloved cartoon character named “Memin Pinguin”
I THINK YOU’LL SEE HOW THIS ALL FITS TOGETHER.
This compilation came out in 1986, and is my favorite of Hal Willner’s collections.
Friday nights redux: time with friends, some good moments.
Got a stalker? Carry a stealth pepper spray cellphone!
I just experienced the sexual equivalent of the Seinfeld “Muffin Tops” episode.
I got a pretty good-looking “LJ Support” email claiming my password had been changed and that my new one was attached. Since it was an obvious phish I went through the headers. They appear to have managed to bounce it off LJ’s mail server somehow, although it originates at someone’s cable modem.
In any case the “attachment” is the usual trojan horse in a zip file that will no doubt do something ugly to your Windows machine.
Don’t touch it; it’s evil.
brianenigma posted some geek-intensive instructions on how to make a Markoff chain of your entire LJ. I did it, and found it a bit of a pain especially since I also had to wash the text of non-ASCII weirdness and control characters. The result was worth it, though. I think it’s my finest writing ever, but it’s long so I used a cut.
Pat Sajak narration of ‘Casey at the Savage Republic/Mike Watt/Urinals/Human Hands show
Portlanders and others, bow down to the genius of onda_dog and his career of chaos in .
Now I want to move to Portland just to be part of his “street team”. Good God I haven’t laughed so hard in forever.
Be My Blog 