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Friday, September 8th, 2006
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12:57p
In food_porn at livejournal, yulduz posts about a birthday cake her friends made her (it has smurfs on it and stuff, cool!). She also tells the community that it was a chocolate rhum cake. Which sounds yummy.
But wait.
RHUM? With an H?!
WANK!
Small but tasty.
current mood: mmm chocolate rHum cake (111 comments |comment on this)
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2:30p - facebook wank!
Note: Some of these links will not work unless you're a facebook memeber. To be a member you need a college e-mail or high school invite. Due to privacy conerns, I'll be quoting people with their college and only copy+pasting little tidbits instead of saving the pages. Sorry for the limited access!
It was bound to happen!
Recently Facebook, the networking site for college and high school students, added a steroid-riddled version of LJ's new notification system. [facebook blog entry] Called "mini-feed" and "news-feed", this feature provides a list of the last 10 actions a person has made on Facebook, such as profile editing, and then provides a compiled, "friends list" version of the actions of a user's friends. Please note that the only way one can access this information is if they are actively listed as a friend, or if the person's profile is open to non-friends.
Already a network accused of facilitating stalkers, for many the feeds sealed the deal and caused an uproar amongst the students. Amongst countless others, a group entitled "Students against Facebook News Feed (Official Petition to Facebook)" was formed. It currently has 741,662 members, and the media's all over it. Links: ( Read more... )
Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, responds with a blog: "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you." Eventually another blog appears [An Open Letter From Mark Zuckerberg], in which he acquiesces to demands and provides an opt-out button. Common sense, really. The creator of the petition group is calmed, but the wank rolls on in its discussion board.
Embry-Riddle writes a lovely post entitled "Quit Bitching", in which he asserts that the ivy league kids are smarter than the state schools.
It's ironic that most of the people who enjoy the new changes, including the developers of them, are from more prominent universities, such as MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, whilst most nay-sayers are from state colleges and other underdog universities. What everyone fails to realize is that your privacy online is already hampered. You sign it away when you join sites like Facebook, MySpace, DeviantART, and Friendster. Why do you complain about changes that compromise your privacy, especially when the system is opt-out? If you don't want your friends (whom you can *gasp* designate at your convenience) know that you wrote on someone's wall, added a buddy from high school, or discussed the new changes in a Developers group, perhaps you shouldn't be their friend. Or maybe you shouldn't even be on Facebook.
Enough bitching already. You joined Facebook to learn about your friends, not add 1000's of random friends. No one is stalking you and if they are, maybe you shouldn't even be on Facebook. The resulting debate is purely academic.
( Read more... )
Washington: LOL.. so we're arguing about privacy at the same time.. might as well get his IP and track him down eh?
Lycoming: Sorry everybody for [Sir Embry]'s behavior, he's just upset that I cut him off for being a douche bag. Baby, stop being an asshole, it's getting you nowhere.
Penn State: gay
The entertainment stops at about the 8th page when Sir Embry goes to class and the conversation derails. For more Facebook fun, be sure to check out Slashdot's report.
current mood: Fan-Tabulous (119 comments |comment on this)
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6:22p - But is it okay to wank after Labor Day?
We've all heard the fashion "rule" that you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day, right?
Apparently it's serious business on Metaquotes. And serious business means wank, of course. Wank over weather patterns. Dissing of Crocs. Michael Kors' name is taken in vain. People disagree all over the place with what is perceived to be the bossy tone of the quote to begin with, defend bottle-blondes, and worry about their official gay status.
But the best part is when someone tells one of the mods to "Get over yourself" and to "stop playing mod" and ends it with a smiley emoticon.
(![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) conuly says what I'm thinking about this whole thing, which is "Why would anybody care?" Except it's the Paradox of Virulent Apathy all over again, where you don't care so much that you must make a statement to that effect.)
ETA: But wait, there's more! And I don't get why this is fat and thus must be ripped on, but whatever. It just keeps getting shallower by the hour.
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11:04p
Warning: There is a NSFW picture on all these links.
rfjason decides it would be amusing to lure a bunch of guys into BDSM into giving him their personal information with a Craigslist personal ad, which he dubbed "The Craigslist Experiment".
He then posts their responses, as well as locations, e-mails and photographs, and invites people to look for people they know.
The comments house staggering numbers of people who find this amusing, and show that rfjason has a whole lot of time on his hands.
One of the identified showed up with threats of legal action.
"Actually, removing any of the information would have made the experiment null and void. I have principles to uphold, you know."
BDSM=abuse and torture, and you so deserve to have your life ruined if you enjoy it.
A mouse shows up to give the identified an opportunity for revenge!
Doms are no different than serial killers.
"We didn't do it to hurt anyone. We did it for the lulz."
ETA:
An article on Waxy.org explains the origin (apparently he is emulating an actual experiment), as well as the legal issues and gives some choice comments.
ETA 2:
There's also an entry on Wired about it, calling him a sociopath, and there's a fair amount of wank in the comments.
Apparently it's also been mentioned in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) metaquotes but I couldn't find it, and I waded through a whole lot of unfunny posts looking, believe me.
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