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[22 Nov 2008|05:49pm] |
Renowned anime director, Miyazaki Hayao makes some potentially controversial comments about the current Japanese Prime Minister emphasizing his liking for manga, anime/manga/games/etc. as a cultural export, and the dangerous effect of media on Japanese children. Also, the dangers of nationalism. Over at Anime News Network forum, people discuss this. Some agree with Miyazaki, others disagree partly or completely, some people express disappointment in Miyazaki and question the quality of his works, but overall the discussion is quite civil. The harshest comments so far:
"One keeps promoting manga.
One keeps making shitty anime. (...)"
"The political comments are just elitist bs. (...) if he has stated publicly that other people's work in anime is crap, then that definitely qualifies him for a big [ignore] tag."
Nothing too bad, right? Well, according to penguintruth, the thread is full of fanboy outrage and people are making "absurd, baseless accusations" and twisting Miyazaki's words "into a personal attack on them so they can get all riled up for no reason." And as we all know, "Making assumptions about Miyazaki based on a pretty reasonable statement and not supporting those assumptions with anything of substance is what we call "trolling", and it is the result of either willful ignorance or the intent to stir things up needlessly."
Knowing the ANN forums it might be worth keeping an eye on this (unless a mod steps in).
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| Jo speaks about fan entitlement. |
[21 Nov 2008|02:15pm] |
JKR has spoken to Melissa about fan entitlement. With mentions of shipping and characters!
( Read more... )
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| S2 Layout Issues |
[20 Nov 2008|04:46pm] |
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
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[20 Nov 2008|09:24am] |
  
They hatched~ \o/
Still having some journal problems so I'm on a different theme again. But this one seems to work.
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| Huckabee to gays: You need to be beat up more to have civil rights! |
[20 Nov 2008|12:08pm] |
Linkage here.
For some strange reason, I can imagine this LJer agreeing with him.
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| Because teaching four-year-olds to hate themselves is totally what Jesus wanted |
[19 Nov 2008|01:09pm] |
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.
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[19 Nov 2008|03:04pm] |
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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*
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| News for the Back Pages of the Paper |
[19 Nov 2008|02:45am] |
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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.
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[18 Nov 2008|01:13pm] |
Guess who just finished the first season of Buffy for the first time? \o_
I've never seen it all the way through before. Just random episodes. Now I want fic where Buffy slays Edward Cullen.
Edit: I'm having some MAJOR layout issues. I had to switch off my theme for the moment, just to see my entries. Anyone else having problems?
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| Westboro Baptist is coming to Portland. Maybe. |
[18 Nov 2008|01:03pm] |
A yep.
Fred Phelps and a group from Westboro Baptist Church have a slate of picketing events planned in Portland from 7:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24.
I added the 'maybe' in the title of this post because there have been other announced protests by them that they never showed up for. I hope they do show, because I want to make a God Hates Shrimp sign.
And yeah, I posted there. I checked the community rules and didn't see anything against it.
The damnportlanders thread.
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