i have a space fleet

Dr. Pepper to honor free soda promise.

"The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday."

I'm so getting my coupon.

Hi, Guys. I know a good many of the S2 themes are kinda hosed right now. Something changed with the LJ migration to their new data center. The Bloggish and Style Contest themes have their CSS hosted at LJ. That's by LJ's design, with how the code is distributed. The code is set to use LJ's CSS proxy to handle the access and display of the CSS settings. Since LJ's move, though, the CSS proxy has been kaput. But the CSS itself at LJ is still working. Until we can find a way around all this, a couple users have a way that you can use the Custom CSS in your customization area to get your layouts pretty damn close to the original for that layout and theme.

You'll enter two sets of code in that area. The first one would be the code from this URL:
http://stat.livejournal.com/sixhtml/themes/common/base-weblog.css

Just go there, copy it, and paste into the custom CSS box.

And the second set you enter will be from the direct CSS URL for your specific theme. You can locate this URL by viewing the source of your journal in your browser (View Source code). If you scroll down to the <link rel="stylesheet" section of the source code, you'll see the direct url to your theme's CSS at livejournal. Go there, copy that code, and paste it after the base-weblog.css code above. Make sure you have "No" selected to use the included base code (it's a dropdown), and that the URL field above the custom CSS box is empty. Click to save changes, and your theme will display much as it is supposed to. There is occasionally an element like a border that doesn't come through, but it's pretty close. As an example of the CSS URLs, this is the one for the Baby theme for the Bloggish layout: http://stat.livejournal.com/sixhtml/themes/lilia/theme-baby.css The CSS URLS will be start with http://stat.livejournal.com/sixhtml with the rest varying by theme and layout. I'll still be looking for an alternative to having to futz with custom CSS, but in the meantime, that method of applying the CSS will get your Bloggish and Style Contest journal themes put back together pretty well. Thanks, Robin

So, OTW has a new policy, which when I first read about it, it sounded pretty damn cool.

B. Fannish next-of-kin

Registered archive users may designate a fannish next-of-kin. A next-of-kin agreement allows the transfer of content maintenance in the case of a user's permanent incapacitation or death.

Both parties to the agreement must be registered users of the Archive.

The Archive's role in this agreement is only to act as a facilitator. If the person designated as the fannish next-of-kin activates the agreement by sending a message to the Archive, the Archive will not do any independent investigation to confirm the necessity for the transfer.

A fannish next-of-kin agreement is confidential and accessible only by designated members of the archive team, who may only use it for purposes of implementing the agreement.

And then you get down to the FAQ...

12. What if my fannish next-of-kin decides s/he's tired of being my fannish next-of-kin?

13. What if I decide I don't like my fannish next-of-kin agreement?

14. What if my fannish next-of-kin does something I wouldn't like?

These are all perfectly valid questions...but could you IMAGINE IT?
( Cut for hypothetical capslock of rage. )


ETA: Link

Okay, not really! Morbid move by Summit to hype up the hype some more?

They hatched~ \o/

Still having some journal problems so I'm on a different theme again. But this one seems to work.

Linkage here.

For some strange reason, I can imagine this LJer agreeing with him.

Actually, now that I've given it a bit of thought, I have to say it might be a little unfair of me to compare this to the book since it's well-written, intentionally funny and displays a clear lack of taking itself seriously. Then again, tripping over the cat and bruising my ribcage on the edge of a bookcase was also better than what I've read of Twilight, so make of that what you will.

I'm starting to feel like fandom_lounge is spamming me, and it just won't stop.

If I wasn't such a lazy mod, I'd do... something.

Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck

There are a lot of amusing things about this piece, which describes the guidelines that "Painter of Light" (TM) Thomas Kinkade laid out for the makers of his direct-to-video film The Christmas Cottage. ("Create an overall sense of soft edges, strive for a 'Barry Lyndon' look." Or, "Hidden details whenever possible, References to my children (from youngest to oldest as follows): Evie, Winsor, Chandler and Merritt. References to my anniversary date, the number 52, the number 82, and the number 5282 (for fun, notice how many times this appears in my major published works).") You can also boggle over the fact that somehow they got Peter goddamn O'Toole to work on this thing.

Of relevance to Fandom On the Internets, however, is the fact that this thing stars Jared Padalecki. One wonders what, if anything, the SPN fans make of it.

"We have to love the person in the New York Times who says mean things about our book. We have to love him. We have to have an attitude of love and not one of competitiveness, or vengeance, or anger, or spite." -- Anne Rice, speaking of her return to Catholicism (From her interview on Interfaith Voices).

Apparently, you're free game as long as you're not in the NYT! Oh, it's good to know that even though the hot new kids like Twilight have sought to dazzle us, the oldies-but-goodies are still kicking.

So, radio host or something John Ziegler has this website called How Obama Got Elected. In order to "prove" that everyone who voted for Obama is a moron or what-have-you, he commissions a Zogby poll with multiple choice questions that supposedly are blatantly slanted and/or have no correct answer, so Nate Silver at 538 asks him about it.

Hilarity ensues.

Blink 182

And that brings us up nearly to a double-round of musicians. I wonder who's next.

ETA: Old news is old, see shark be an idiot, see shark's mom send misleading links to shark. u_u

I had to share this. I regret nothing.

You remember that article about Twilight in the New York Times? There was an entry about it posted here on Monday?

Well, I have a paper for my writing class due tomorrow and we pretty much have to find an article in the New York times and write our reaction to it or an analysis or something.

You probably guessed which article I'm using. <3

My thesis? Twilight fans are crazy.

I hope my writing teacher doesn't fail me, ahaha.

Hugh Jackman voted People's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2008.

People.com page.

A bright spot in an otherwise dull, unremarkable, stressful day. *dreamy sigh*

And also since this recent interview... ♥

Press release of California churches trying to get Prop 8 overturned.

FYI: It's a PDF file.

*Yes, that was on purpose.

The Automatic - In the Club

Bloc Party - Talons

Estelle - American Boy (acoustic)

Jefferson Airplane - Someone to Love

Let it Be/It wasn't me

Zombies Walk

Love will tear you apart

The Flobots - Handlebars

There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama

So basically a bunch of rap with guitars. IDK. And if anyone else had any, I'd be really grateful.

A four year old who knows she needs a savior!

A woman writes about how proud she is to have taught her daughter that she was born evil. At least the majority of people in the comments seem to be calling it child abuse.

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=80273

You can buy me on your iPhone now. Yay for Samhain Publishing!

I... I got nothing bar 'KILL IT WITH FIRE. KILL IT NOW.' Sorry.

From the International Herald Tribune: Last-minute Bush abortion ruling causes furor.

And once again, I find myself incredibly grateful to not be American right now. *spits*

Via Racialicious, let's remember that hate crimes totally don't happen anymore and America is now a country that totally embraces differences, kk?

SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together) has been keeping track of an increase in xenophobic violence and rhetoric against South Asians in the weeks and months leading up to the 2008 elections, including assaults targeting immigrants who either supported or were perceived to support President-Elect Obama. Here are a few examples of recent violence against South Asians and other communities of color:

• Hardwick, New Jersey — On November 6, 2008, an incident occurred in which Alina and Gary Grewal found a cross burned on their front lawn. The cross was wrapped in a congratulatory banner the family had made which read “President Obama, Victory ‘08″.
  
• Carteret, New Jersey — On October 30, 2008, an incident occurred in which an elderly Sikh gentleman, Ajit Singh Chima, was punched and kicked repeatedly in the face, suffering fractures in his jaw and near his eyes. This occurred soon after a 10-year-old Sikh boy, Gagandeep Singh, was attacked on October 8, 2008, by an individual who pushed him to the ground and forcibly cut his hair.
  
• Staten Island, New York — In early November, an incident occurred in which four white men beat a Liberian-American Muslim teenager, Ali Kamara, near his home. The attackers jumped out of a car and assaulted him with a baseball bat after shouting “Obama.”
  
• Providence, Rhode Island — In September 2008, an incident occurred in which a Sikh-American man was accosted by an individual who said, “I have a gun in my car and since you are a hajii no one will care if I kill you. You know why the police won’t do anything? Because I got blond hair and blue eyes.” As the assailant left, he screamed, “F*** Arabs and F*** Obama.”
  

A white woman who carved a B into her own face made news for days, but crosses burned on people's lawns and a 10 year old boy having his hair forcibly cut? I guess that's for the back pages.