User:	fandom_lounge (posted by sistercoyote)
	Date:	2009-01-07 15:26
	Subject:	LJ, redux
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Is LJ being exceptionally robust, or is it just me?  Vandalism by pissed-off ex-employees?

It's probably just me.  But I can't get to LJstatus to find out for sure, so I thought I'd post here.

Sorry to bother everyone (okay, I'm not.  Not really.)

Edited to add:  Okay, not just me, then.  On the one hand, Phew.  On the other hand...I bet this has the potential to become epic.  Even when it turns out to be just a hiccup.

Edited again to add:  Now when LJ comes up it shows the following message:  LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

Thank you for your patience.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by sushi)
	Date:	2009-01-07 17:15
	Subject:	RIP, GJ.
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And GreatestJournal is dead.

http://www.greatestjournal.com

A week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by hypno_jango)
	Date:	2009-01-07 11:31
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While gamer sites are doing the "Best/Worst of 2008" awards, Zero Punctuation decides to do one too... but a little bit differently.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by anarchicq)
	Date:	2009-01-06 18:54
	Subject:	Portollies.com poll
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Doubtless you saw this in Metafandom, but I thought I'd post it here too.
Portfollies.com poll

"Portfollies will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication."

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by arionhunter)
	Date:	2009-01-06 11:16
	Subject:	Your Daily Dose of Adorable
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2.1-Meter-Tall Pine-Cone Totoro Unveiled in Japan.

If only that had been in the Rose Bowl Parade, I might have watched.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by ilya)
	Date:	2009-01-06 21:57
	Subject:	LJ going under?
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The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

Source

Can you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode...

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by shark)
	Date:	2009-01-05 20:32
	Subject:	A Request for Recs
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This one is for my mom - she just finished reading Phantom of the Opera (book, obviously) and wants to know where the fandom is - or at least where the fanfiction is: if anyone could rec me some good bookverse fic* I would be very, very much obliged. Good mimickry of Gaston Leroux's style (in the puffin classics translation) is a gigantic bonus.

Also one from/for myself - now that I've exhausted Yuletide's offerings and am already in the middle of the Dragonchoice duology (it's good!) - is there any other good Dragonriders of Pern fic on the net? I'll read most anything, although I really like metay fic.

* (gen or het, ideally; I think she would freak if I linked her slash. Also, non-porny, since I would freak at sending links to porn to my mom)

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by negativecosine)
	Date:	2009-01-04 18:25
	Subject:	Disney Buys Fanlib
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Written up here by stewardess.

(May shortly be wanky, but not provocative enough for clairvoyantwank just yet, I thought.)

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by staroverthebay)
	Date:	2009-01-03 20:31
	Subject:	Pratchett recs?
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Okay, I think this is the place to post this, but if it's not, let me know and I'll delete it. It seems to pertain to "fandom" as a general rule.

Anyway, the news about Terry Pratchett being knighted has inspired me to pick up the books I've had sitting around waiting to read. I've finished "Mort" and I'm most of the way through "Wyrd Sisters" and while I can say that I love Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the character I'm really in love with is Death himself. (God that sounds weird!)

Being that I'm pretty much broke right now (car payments, credit card payments, car repairs and now I'm going back to school... I has no money to spare on things like novels!) I have to reserve them at the library through their transfer system, and the transfer system is not very good at giving decent book descriptions beyond author, title, year published and format (hardcover vs softbound). So what I'd like to know is this: which books focus most on Death and his household? Because I seriously love his laid-back everything-in-due-time attitude, and I'd love to read more of his escapades. I'm sure I'll enjoy any Pratchett book I pick up, but I'm really eager to read the books about Death. (Why do I get this weird feeling that I sound like an emo-gothic-wannabe when I say that?)

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by freezer)
	Date:	2009-01-03 19:22
	Subject:	Got an account on JournalSpace?
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Not anymore, you don't.

Journalspace is no more.

DriveSavers called today to inform me that the data was unrecoverable.

Here is what happened: the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As data is written (such as saving an item to the database), it's automatically copied to both drives, as a backup mechanism.

The value of such a setup is that if one drive fails, the server keeps running, using the remaining drive. Since the remaining drive has a copy of the data on the other drive, the data is intact. The administrator simply replaces the drive that's gone bad, and the server is back to operating with two redundant drives.

But that's not what happened here. There was no hardware failure. Both drives are operating fine; DriveSavers had no problem in making images of the drives. The data was simply gone. Overwritten.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by vitalitat)
	Date:	2009-01-03 10:05
	Subject:	New Doctor actor is youngest ever
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Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

( Text of article )


ETA!
MORE IMAGES? Is this the right guy now?

( Fixed the cut, sorry )

Yeah, that's him... The Viggo thing kind of went out the window just now.

ETA 3:
Hasn't Tyra taught us anything at all? ANGLES. It's all about the angles.

ETA 4:
And now a video interview.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by photosinensis)
	Date:	2009-01-02 19:43
	Subject:	Naruto Shippuden on Hulu? Sign me up!
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Remember that post about Crunchyroll going legit? One of the first things they're picking up is Naruto Shippuden, which will run on Crunchyroll with subtitles an hour after the show runs in Japan for the paid members there. Joost.com, Hulu.com, and Naruto.com will run the episodes for free a week later. This will start with the next episode, running on January 8.

In addition, subtitled episodes will be uploaded to all above websites at 8/week until the entire catalog is available.

In related news, Dattebayo has dropped Naruto Shippuden from its subtitling rounds.

I'd like to start a betting pool on when the wank will begin.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by tree)
	Date:	2009-01-02 20:43
	Subject:	Did you know...
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... that TV Tropes was on twitter? I didn't. I almost wish I still didn't.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by seto_fangirl)
	Date:	2009-01-02 12:42
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11th Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7807742.stm

Countdown to wanksplosion somewhere in the fandom tomorrow....

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by aeka)
	Date:	2008-12-31 12:27
	Subject:	Regrettable Trends of 2008
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With 2008 coming to a close today and Hello! 2009, MSN has published their annual "Regrettable Trends of 2008" to wrap up the year.

Among their list of regrettable trends this year include:

- Celebrity Pornstaches
- Sing-Along Movies (aka Musicals)
- Name Hybrids
- Boobs of Youtube
- Facebook
- Twilight...

You get the picture. xD

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by anon_a_mouse)
	Date:	2008-12-31 08:08
	Subject:	Sir Terry Pratchett. Oook?
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To lighten up the mood, just in time for New Years.
Terry Pratchett Knighted.

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by seto_fangirl)
	Date:	2008-12-29 19:44
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Is it just me or is LJ acting very weird again tonight?

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by hangingfire)
	Date:	2008-12-28 14:46
	Subject:	Joan Winston in the NY Times
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	thoughtful

In the annual "The Lives They Lived" issue of the NY Times Magazine, Rob Walker contributes a lovely appreciation of Joan Winston. Arguably not precisely deathwatch-related, even if it is an obituary of sorts, because alongside Walker offers some interesting observations about media fandom, the role that the internet has played in fandom in recent years, and changes in perception of media fandom since Winston organized the first Trek convention. An excellent short read—check it out.

Non-fandom-related and also worth reading: Well, pretty much the entire issue, but I call particular attention to the essays about Mildred Loving (really touching), Levi Stubbs and Dee Dee Warwick, Bobby Fischer, John List (disturbing and fascinating), Steve Fossett, and Eula Mae Doré (which, along with the Loving essay, almost made me start crying over brunch at the local coffeeshop).

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by spawn_of_kong)
	Date:	2008-12-28 14:29
	Subject:	Primeval fans, anyone?
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	curious

If this is inappropriate, let me know ASAP and I'll delete.

Just wondering if there's anyone out there on JF who, like me, is a fan of ITV's Primeval.  If so, how much are you looking forward to the third season airing in January, and what sorts of things do you expect/think will/might happen?

	User:	fandom_lounge (posted by stinksap)
	Date:	2008-12-28 12:14
	Subject:	Thundercats Ho!
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Amazing fanvid for a fictional live action Thundercats movie.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/22/votd-live-action-thundercats-movie/