| Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) acari: how not to become the next hacker victim - The hackers seem to target popular journals and/or admins of large communities. Makes sense when you consider the aim of having as many people as possible click on their keylogger-infested links. -
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| Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
[30 Nov 2008|08:32pm] |
- stellaluna_: storytelling - As a writer, I have a responsibility to consider how I'm using my words.[...]I need to think about the story I want to tell and if I'm telling it well; I need to think about the characters and about whether I'm writing in a fashion that's true to them; I need to think about what my story is saying the subtextual and metaphoric level as well as what's happening in the surface action of the story; and I need to think about whether I'm making any unconscious assumptions regarding gender or race or sexual identity that I did not intend. I need to look at the story through a broader lens. -
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| Have yourselves a sparkly new home |
[01 Dec 2008|02:05am] |
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With the success of the books, you'd expect the sale of vampire paraphernalia to go up, right? But did you expect house decor?
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| My word count is pastede on yay |
[30 Nov 2008|07:50pm] |
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The Format -- 'One Shot, Two Shots' |
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Someone claims to have 'won' NaNoWriMo with 2.5 million words, a feat so fantabulous it apparently requires announcing twice.
Unfortunately, checking out his website reveals that he used a less than conventional technique to reach this count:
In order to compile so many words in such a short time, Leach leaned heavily on the Internet. He generated what he calls a “non-linear literary collage” by mining various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites, grabbing whatever words caught his eye.
“The talk pages of Wikipedia and the reader comments on io9.com were my absolute favorites,” he said. “These are my people. I shamelessly plagiarized their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- at every opportunity, combining the anonymous messages with recycled content from ‘Marienbad My Love’ and entries from my dream journal. I repeatedly cut and pasted and searched and replaced, transforming the various writings into a completely new and unique literary work.”
NaNoers are Not Amused.
Edited to add my favourite reply from the forums so far:
Plagiarizing other peoples' words is not writing. It's plagiarism, pure and simple, contrary to the spirit of Nano.
Not to mention that your pretense is so thick you could stand on it and not worry about sinking for a good three hours.
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| Charitable Schadenfreude |
[29 Nov 2008|03:36pm] |
So, many of you have probably heard of this or saw last year's, but I thought I'd share it all the same.
Desert Bus for Hope is a charity event for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. It goes like this: They play the most monotonous video game ever, the legendary Desert Bus for a certain number of hours, with the number of hours based on the donations they get. The donations continue while they play, adding more time. Each hour costs more. They have live streams of the bus, the drivers, and a chat where you can talk to them. Every thousand dollars there's a bit of macrospam on the site in celebration.
As of when I'm posting this, they've been playing for almost 22 hours, out of 101 currently paid for with over $13,000 in donations, and have one point, working on 2. Last year they got $22,800 and six points, the world record. They're looking to break both.
It's good fun for us, torturous for them, and hey, if you're going to contribute to the suffering of others, might as well do it charitably.
ETA: Well, they broke the important record. They just broke $25,000 and counting, committed to 110 hours, of which they've played about 64. They haven't gotten more than 6 points though. They keep crashing.
ETA2: So Gabe and Tycho decided to match the next $10,000 that came in after about $25,500. Current count since the announcement? $5000 has already been donated, bringing them up to 30K and something like 113 hours. There will be at least $5000 coming from PA, probably more as more donations come in. The boys almost cried when Tycho called and told them about it.
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| Does anyone here watch The IT Crowd? |
[30 Nov 2008|02:12am] |
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It's a very, very funny show that's on British TV and is currently in its third season. The second episode aired tonight and I laughed so hard, I nearly broke something.
Here's the link of the new episode.
This has been an incredibly funny series. That there episode? Pushed it into "legendary" status for me. Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way. Just wondering if any of my favourite wankas share this special love?
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| Twilight meta wank |
[29 Nov 2008|05:46am] |
C&P from a mouse on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) wank_report.
Seperis points out how it might be a bit hypocritical for fans to criticise the taste of the teens who are into Twilight. http://seperis.livejournal.com/676678.html
vee_fic disagrees:
http://seperis.livejournal.com/676678.html?thread=18136646#t18136646
"I'm sorry you have zero interest in responsibility."
"My disapproval ranges all the way from "please don't show me that" to "I'm calling the police now,"
"I don't want to participate in a culture where things I deem rightfully forbidden seem normal."
"Why so sensitive about people's feelings on the one hand, and so insensitive on the other?"
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| "So long, suckers!" |
[28 Nov 2008|05:49pm] |
Zac, aka Anime News Network's Answerman, has announced his retirement in the form of an epic flounce.
As a crusty old douchenozzle myself, I gotta say - I LOL'd.
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| Fangirls made RPattz cut his hair off |
[28 Nov 2008|10:08am] |
Robert Pattinson once again appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
The EW article, entitled 'Twilight': Where Does the Fandemonium Lead Now?, is here.
( Read more )
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| in case you missed it... |
[27 Nov 2008|11:42am] |
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The entire country was Rickrolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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[26 Nov 2008|09:46pm] |
A little Thanksgiving-themed wank for those celebrating the holiday! And heck, I guess those who don't can enjoy it too. I'd like to think of myself as a fair gal.
So Furaffinity, a website for furry-themed art, changed its top banner for the holiday. Rather than the usual theme for these sorts of things like some character chasing a turkey/a bunch of people sitting down to a meal/a disappointed dude watching the Lions lose game number 5 million, they decide to instead go a different route.
Namely by having their two mascot characters laying on a couch looking morbidly obese. On the original artist's upload there are both positive and negative comments along with much proclaiming that their fetish is NOT OK.
Within minutes there are many journals on the subject. Some displaying total disgust about the subject manner while others tell everyone to (pun intended) lighten up.
In one journal the head of the site, Dragoneer, mocks the people who are complaining about the banner: "Thousands of angry furries who can not take a joke are lining up!" He also edits the news post announcing the banner change to have what is supposed to be a link to a forum post discussing the subject, but is instead our old friend the Rickroll. There IS an actual discussion thread in the forums however, with the title "New Banner is tastless and disgusting". The poster of this thread, Rilvor, wants to start a petition to have the banner removed.
Rilvor: "I would like to start a petition to have it removed. That banner makes me physically ill every time I see it. I do not appreciate having such content in this fandom, which I make a point to avoid, thrust into my face."
The thread so far contains five pages of arguing over whether the banner is disgusting or not and people reminding others that it's only going to be up for 24 hours.
ETA: Thanksgiving is over, and as expected, the banner is gone. However journals about it continue to appear!
"All this pissing and moaning about the banner. I like the banner. I don't like the banner. Journals and forums and fucking petitions.
You know what? People in DR Congo and Somalia are being attacked by rape gangs and war lords, their families are being murdered. People in North Korea are starving to death on the street. Massive terrorist attack in India. Etc."
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| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
[26 Nov 2008|04:49pm] |
- penknife: Hotmail, Russian hackers, and you - With some of the recent journal and community hackings (we don't know about the most recent one yet), the cause has apparently been that Hotmail is recycling closed email accounts. If you had a Hotmail address validated for your LJ account, and you close the Hotmail account, a hacker can then sign up for the same email address and use it to gain access to your LJ account. -
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