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    Saturday, March 20th, 2010
    sparklefield
    [ darksumomo ]
         		4:13p
    New York Magazine must love Twilight
    ...or else their writers wouldn't come up with material like this.

    Police Are on the Lookout for Man Who Bit Taxi Driver
    By: Dan Amira

    A man who pulled a gun on a taxi driver, and then bit him "repeatedly on the neck, arm and back" in the struggle that followed, is being sought by the NYPD. He is described as being around 30 years old, six feet tall, pale, lightning-quick, cold-skinned, and sparkly when exposed to sunlight.

    The commenters got into it, too. The best came from Delawhere16, who typed, "The NYPD is going to be so pissed when they realize it's part of True Blood's guerilla marketing campaign."

    As for the tag, it's "Vampire Crime of the Day."

    Perfect. No wonder I keep reading New York Magazine.

    Current Mood: Flippant
    Thursday, March 18th, 2010
    unfunnybusiness
    [ tez ]
         		8:25p
    Letting gays serve openly in the military will totally lead to massacres, amirite?
    A retired U.S. general said Thursday that the Dutch policy of allowing openly gay soldiers to serve in its military led, in part, to its failure to halt the massacre of Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.

    ( Entire text of article under the cut. )

    For once, the comments (at least the first page of them, I'm afraid to go any deeper) are almost universally variants on 'oh shut the fuck up you moron'. (ETA: At least they were when I initially submitted this a couple days ago. I'm sort of afraid to go back and look at them again.)
    Saturday, March 20th, 2010
    unfunnybusiness
    [ kalloway ]
         		8:46a
    Jury finds author Watts guilty
    Since I know quite a few people were following this originally~

    Toronto man faces up to 2 or 3 years in prison for bridge incident

    Article here and previous days available on sidebar (local version)


    ( Full text for link-phobic )
    fandom_lounge
    [ kijikun ]
         		6:19a
    SDCC Roommates needed
    As per usual I have a room with two queen sized beds for SDCC at the Holiday Inn Express downtown. I'll be there for the full four nights. There is a mini fridge in the room as well as a TV and free wireless internet, as well as free hot breakfast every morning, a pool, and a shuttle to the con right around the corner. Free shuttle from the airport as well.

    I'm will to put up to 5- 6 people in the room if all other parties are fine with it (I will be bringing a air mattress again) but at the moment I'm shooting for 4. Girls only, and over 18 only.

    Is anyone else interested? With 4 people in the room would be 190 dollars a person. I wouldn't expect any money until the con itself.

    If you are interested please let me know. :)
    fandom_rant
    [ dontgiveahoot ]
         		6:05p
    Bloodbending Your Way To A Better Sex Life!
    Crossposted from LJ's fanficrants and [info]fanficrants

    Dear Avatar fanauthor:

    While having Katara use Bloodbending to spice up her sex life is certainly an approach to smutfic I haven't seen before, I think perhaps you need to keep some things in mind.

    ( Cut for crazy, dubcon and general brainbleach rquirements. )
    No love, me.

    Current Mood: OMGWTF
    Friday, March 19th, 2010
    deathwatch
    [ _deadleaves ]
         		1:46p
    RIP: Nujabes
    Nujabes, Underground Hip Hop Artist, Dead at 36

    Samurai Champloo would have not been the same without you.
    fandom_lounge
    [ phosfate ]
         		12:42p
    breaking news: snapefan does something creative, delightful
    http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/03/professor_snape_car_seat_cover.html
    Thursday, March 18th, 2010
    unfunnybusiness
    [ telegramsam ]
         		12:43p
    A whole plethora of hypocrisy and fail wrapped up neatly with a bow
    I have Roman Catholic friends that I have a lot of respect for and they hold a variety of personal beliefs and values, but none are idiotic to the point of this (if they were they would not be my friends) - from the church itself... "Vatican ends "wall of silence" over child abuse scandal".

    Some of the attitudes expressed in this article, I must laugh at simply because the other option is banging my head against a wall.

    "In one case, the priest defended himself on the grounds that he sincerely believed it was not sinful for him to have sexual relations - provided it was not with a woman."

    Because, you know, women are totes the root of all evil and it's so much better and holier to molest defenseless children.

    I can understand this priest's confusion though, considering what sort of teachings and attitudes many Christian churches, Roman Catholic and otherwise, have regarding women in general.

    "He also gave numbers: during the past decade the Holy Office received details of 3,000 Catholic priests reported by their Bishops to Rome for sexual misconduct or, even worse, crimes.

    Sixty per cent of these cases involved homosexual acts, 30% related to heterosexual behaviour and only 10% - or 300 priests - were, he said, 'actual cases of paedophilia.'"

    The 60% vs 30% figure is particularly hilarious considering the R.C. Church's wholesale public condemnation of homosexuals.

    The fact that they chose, for decades, to protect child molesters and abusers (plenty of non-sexual abuse in Catholic schools went on as well apparently), frankly... well they get no sympathy from me in this ongoing scandal. Classic case of real sin (as opposed to the made-up kind like simply being born gay) coming home to roost.

    ( Pasted text of article for link-phobic, without my teal deer commentary )

    Current Mood: oh, for fuck's sake.
    fandom_lounge
    [ braisinhussy ]
         		1:25p
    Comic-Con and the AHA
    This is hilarious. I hope Al Gore comes to the Futurama panel! (Oh jeez, I can't imagine what this is going to do to security.)

    News here and here.

    In short: the American Hospital Association is holding a leadership summit in San Diego. The same weekend as Comic-Con. Two blocks from the convention center. In a hotel that, up until yesterday, was on SDCC's official list of con hotels.

    Guests include Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, DeeDee Myers, Ken Burns and Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt.

    (And speaking of SDCC hotels, is anyone else pacing back and forth, waiting for their confirmation email? Last year's booking sucked, but at least I knew by 10am. Submitted my list by 9:05, still haven't heard anything.)
    fandom_lounge
    [ atanvarne ]
         		12:08p
    When you give a rocket scientist Photoshop...
    ...you get really cool stuff!

    There are more shades of awesome here than I can shake a stick at. Check out Expedition 16's Matrix-themed poster (huge pdf, takes awhile). For a quicker preview, Gizmondo has a good write-up. There's even a ST:XI themed poster in the comments.
    fandom_lounge
    [ j_crew_guy ]
         		1:14p
    unfunnybusiness
    [ felinephoenix ]
         		2:06a
    Because it's his "right" to be with the kids
    Girls ordered to spend weekends with sex offender father

    Headline says it all, really.
    unfunnybusiness
    [ sparklepuss ]
         		7:49a
    Great news: sexism no longer exists!
    A sockpuppet posts a screed to a Big Bang Theory community on LJ, [info]sheldon_penny, about how the community is objectifying the poor, oppressed men by creating fanart and squeeing about the hotness of Sheldon and the actor who plays him, Jim Parsons. And how it's hypocritical for members to complain about the objectification of the character Penny in light of their objectification of Sheldon/Jim.

    Members reply "Um, no." Some members try to explain why women objectifying men (if such a thing is even happening at all) isn't quite the same thing as men objectifying women but the OP doesn't get it.

    Despite the sockpuppetry, the discussion is interesting, and for the most part, thoughtful. Until one of the few male members of the community, [info]awmperry, jumps in and doesn't get it, claiming that sexism no longer exists.

    He continues to not get it.

    And not get it some more. A few members try to explain that he's derailing the conversation but he continues to not get it.

    He even goes so far as to claim that male circumcision is a practice that's as horrifying as female genital mutilation.

    But the ladies just don't understand! He has no male privilege in a community that's 99% women! He's being oppressed! And the male privilege checklist doesn't apply to him! He's special!

    In the end, he manages to hit almost every point on Derailing for Dummies.

    P.S. Thanks to the mousie who first posted this to wank_report.
    Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
    fandom_lounge
    [ freezer ]
         		10:27p
    Make it a Blockbuster night? Might want to make it soon.
    Time to say goodnight to the Blockbuster night?

    I've heard from more person that game rentals are the only thing that have kept Blockbuster afloat for this long. Between Netflix, On-Demand PPV, and Redbox kiosks, Blockbuster's damn near obsolete in terms of watching the newest vid releases.

    I hope they can right the ship, if just to save what jobs are left in Blockbusterville.
    fwank_icons
    [ eilisliana ]
         		10:19p
    Some simple action icons, free to take. :)

    A preview:

    The rest are under the cut: ( Read more... )
    random_lounge
    [ inalasahl ]
         		1:54p
    unfunnybusiness
    [ charamei ]
         		1:20p
    Score one for science
    Scientists at the University of Cincinnati have successfully created artificial photosynthesis, apparently far more efficiently than plants manage it.

    ( First article under cut. )

    Current Mood: excited
    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
    unfunnybusiness
    [ platedlizard ]
         		10:05p
    Encyclopedia Dramatica's owner could face charges in Australia.
    Link.

    The US-based owner of a satirical Wikipedia-style website may be charged under Australian law over a deliberately offensive article about Aborigines.

    The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) contacted Encyclopedia Dramatica owner Joseph Evers, after 20 indigenous Australians complained about the article's content.

    Earlier this year the same article — which includes numerous offensive depictions of Aborigines — was removed from Google's search listings after a request from the Human Rights Commission.

    Joseph Evers' blog.

    For those unaware, Encyclopedia Dramatica has been in a lot of trouble in Australia lately. First ED was placed on the ACMA blacklist, a “secret” list of websites to be censored throughout Australia in their upcoming internet filter. After this list was leaked to the public, we all laughed about how we were put on a blacklist with “Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions, Christian sites, and even the websites of a tour operator and a Queensland dentist“. Meanwhile, Australia Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called for the arrests of Australians publishing the list.


    My take on this:

    ED is a pit of scum and villainy. I haven't read the article in question, but I do occasionally view ED, and if it's like the rest of the site I'm sure it is as offensive as possible. That's what happens when a bunch of trolls make a wiki. That doesn't mean that it should be censored, or that the main 'owner' (who didn't ever write that article) should be brought up on charges. If you are going to protect Free Speech then you have to protect speech you don't like. Don't like it? Fine. You are allowed to set up your own site to say why it is wrong. You are allowed to protest. You should not criminally charge someone for it!

    As for censoring the Internet... I don't even know where to start with that. Totalitarian states do that. China, Iran, North Korea etc. What does that make Australia? Hell, Australia is making porn of flat chested women illegal because they think it might encourage pedophilia. I really feel sorry for any man in Australia who likes small boobs on adult women, they might end up being labeled as pedophiles.

    I better stop before I start ranting. I'm just glad that I live in a country where Freedom of Speech is encoded into our constitution.

    ETA I just love how a lot of the comments here are about how mean ED is instead of the how terrible it is that an American in America with an American-based site may be charged in an Australian court with human rights violations because users of the site posted mean things. Way to keep your priorities straight.
    unfunnybusiness
    [ agent_hyatt ]
         		2:44p
    serious news about Racebending is automatically unfunny, right?
    Facebook removes the Racebending group for being "hateful, threatening, or obscene". Meanwhile, actual hate groups like WBC are untouched.

    ETA 3/17: The group's back up now, with no elaboration on why it was deleted or explanation for why it's back. Hooray FB, you're adequate instead of faily!

    ETA 2: Some other FB groups that are genuinely offensive, yet have not been removed. Including "F*CK ISLAM" and "It's not R.A.P.E. if you scream Surprise!", the latter of which has been reported before and deletion request denied because it would infringe on their freedom of expression.
    Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
    fandom_wank
    [ snacky ]
         		12:12p
    MOD POST: Email problems and an interruption in the wank
    Dear people of the wank communities,

    Please allow us a moment for wank business.

    Your mods are not receiving any emails from JF letting us know that there are posts in the mod queues, awaiting approval. This leads to wank back up, something none of us want.

    Until JF's email issue is resolved, if you submit a post, please also submit an email to the Modsquad (mods @ thefannish.org), so we will know it's waiting for approval.

    Thank you kindly,

    Your loving Modsquad
    Monday, March 15th, 2010
    clairvoyantwank
    [ ruffwriter ]
         		3:55p
    Tiny literary agent wank
    Not quite big enough for [info]otf_wank at the moment, but it's a good side dish to all the entitled authorwank on F_W proper lately.

    It started off as a fairly typical agent-searching story: aspiring writer e-mails a query letter to a Big Time literary agent. The project piques the agent's interest, and she asks for the manuscript. Writer sends manuscript... and then hears nothing for seven months. Writer asks the agent what's going on, and still hears nothing.

    The writer, in an ill-advised move, decides to go over the agent's head and inform her boss that she's taking too long, and in the ensuing e-mails, withdraws his manuscript from consideration.

    How does Big Time agent react? By posting the entire chain of correspondence, including enough of the query letter that another agent would be able to identify the writer, on her blog to teach him a lesson.

    Tiny kerfuffles have broken out in the comments of her post, in which the agent argues with dissenters, and the Absolute Write Bewares and Background Checks forum, where one of the agent's clients shows up to defend her. (Discussion of the post starts halfway down page 14, and the client shows up on page 15.)

    EDIT: ... is it just me, or did we travel back to March 15th just now? (Okay, yes, apparently so. Carry on!)
    fandom_wank
    [ tetradecimal ]
         		9:55a
    I'M THE GODDAMN ADMIN
    Direct from the pages of wank report:
    "Sheezyart's (http://sheezyart.com) admins troll members who use Adblock by forcing a flashing red and yellow background and music to appear for anyone who uses Adblock on their site."

    "Comments with a star are Sheezyart staff/admins, who have been the epitome of class throughout...

    The flashing background and music have since been removed and replaced with a text banner, but not before someone actually had a seizure from it."

    720+ comments, including an appearance on page two by the Goddamn Batman. Yes, that one.
    fandom_wank
    [ kaen ]
         		4:57p
    Yesterday over at rvb_slash (a community for Red vs. Blue slash) one of the mods makes a post saying, basically, I know I don't do much active modding, so are there any suggestions you all have for improving the community?

    It should have been clear this wasn't going to go well when the first comment is from somebody saying how they've left the community because it's gotten so awful, and then snarking at the next commenter when she says she's happy with it.

    Other people show up agreeing that it's gone downhill and there's a decent amount of wank in the first post, but it really takes off when the mod makes a second post addressing some of the concerns that came up.

    So, what's made the community become so awful that it's apparently driven off a bunch of old-timers and made one of the biggest wanker in the posts "[decide] the fandom needed saving" and feel like he's been holding the fort until things improve? Have oodles of trolls shown up while the mod wasn't paying attention? Has the community been flooded with off-topic posts?

    No, it's because everyone who's joined since October '08's fanfiction is bad and they should feel bad. They don't say exactly why October '08 (mid-October '08 to get even more specific) is so clearly the start of it's downfall, but they're very certain that's it.

    While there's wank scattered all over the place in the two posts, my personal favorite part would have to be [info]lvsinsanity insisting that fanwork about Freelancers shouldn't be allowed in the community unless those Freelancers have been seen interacting with the Red or Blue team, because clearly "Red vs. Blue Slash" refers to the teams instead of the name of the series. When people point out that it is named after the series, and any character that appears in it is fair game, lvsinsanity's response is that they're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective her way of viewing things makes perfect logical sense and Freelancers still don't belong there.

    Another thing to keep an eye out for is [info]primalreligion insisting all over the place that a certain character (York) should never be in slash fic because even though it never came up in canon there was an interview somewhere, he can not remember where, that says he was married.
    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
    fandom_wank
    [ mariem_1 ]
         		1:42p
    The terrifying story of Remus Lupin, cannibal and pedophile, and matricidal werewolf fetus
    Snapefen at Snapedom are engaging in their favorite pastime - abusing everybody who isn't Snape or at least a Slytherin. This time their designated target is Remus Lupin. Note that this wank started 21 day ago and is still going on.

    It all began when [info]terri_testing posted an essay Remus (and other Lycanthropes) as Parents, where she depicts Remus as bad and irresponsible teacher, husband and father. Some excerpts:

    ( Read more )

    The essay ends with a horror-novel scenario:

    But if my reasoning is correct, human mothers, in general, can only carry a human child to term. So Remus should have been angsting over the possibility that Tonks would miscarry her much-wanted child, not that it would be born a lycanthrope. But he wasn’t.

    Unless the only precedents Remus knew of involved werewolf mothers, who must always produce werewolf children if any. In which case Remus got Tonks pregnant while believing that any child he fathered MUST be born a lycanthrope.

    *

    But there’s a wrinkle thrown into all this by the fact that Tonks is a Metamorphmagus.

    She can alter her body—including, we have seen, taking on superficial bestial characteristics (a pig’s snout). Can she alter other organs to be bestial? Specifically, can she alter her uterus and the mother’s portion of the placenta, perhaps subconsciously, to be more lupine to save her changing child?

    If she can, that opens a truly chilling possibility. The metamorphmagus alters her uterus at the first full moon after conception, and manages to carry her lycanthrope fetus past the first full moon. And past the second, and the third….

    Over time her fetus’s nervous system develops, and with it its normal instincts. Human, for almost all of the month. Except for those few hours when the full moon is above the horizon.

    Her fetus will have no teeth, not before birth, unless that might be another point in which werewolves are unlike other canids, but it will eventually grow claws.

    And then will come another full moon, the last one, and the werewolf-fetus’s instincts will urge it overwhelmingly to rend, to tear, the nearest human.

    The one surrounding it.

    [info]terri_testing also posted a drabble Teddy’s Sister to go with her essay. I guess the name of Teddy's sister is Renesmee Lupin.

    [info]sailorlum, a sane Snape fan and Lupin fan, decided to argue, that Remus didn't completely suck. That caused a huge wankfest, where [info]terri_testing, [info]oryx_leucoryx, [info]00sevvie, duj and [info]oneadthetruth argued that Remus was a bad guy, that it was cruel of him to make Snape!boggart look funny and not to drink Wolfsbane Snape brought immediately ("HOW ON EARTH is that scene supposed to be FUNNY to anyone in a way that does not deny the validity of Severus' pain? HOW?", wondered [info]terri_testing), that Remus was hunting human prey with his friends the animals, that [info]terri_testing is Lizzie Bennett and Lupin is Wickham, that Remus was only kind to Molly because she cooked for the Order and that werewolf!Lupin was probably more aggressive than werewolf!Greyback. Several Snapefen were also pretty rude to [info]sailorlum. My favorite exchange is this one:

    ( Read more )

    After all that [info]00sevvie made a new Snapedom post, where she bemoaned supposed whitewashing of Lupin's flaws and lack of validation of Snape's pain and trauma from other HP characters, JKR and [info]sailorlum. [info]marionros/[info]smallpotato appeared in the comments to this post and proved how logical and reasonable she is by claiming that lycanthropy symbolizes pedophilia and that Remus metaphorically almost raped Snape while at school:

    ( Read more )

    ETA: Harry has no ability to love and Ginny reminds him of Bellatrix.

    ETA 2: [info]farmercuerden summarized the Snapewank in a song.
    otf_wank
    [ theelusiven ]
         		7:08p
    In France they call it a Royale with Wank....
    An afternoon snack in miniwank form from [info]customers_suck, courtesy of a mousie from [info]wank_report , from whom the writeup is copypasta'd because journalfen ate the writeup I was working on. There's pedantry here to rival the Buttercream wank from awhile back. Thanks, mousie!

    Over at [info]Customers_Suck, [info]haine_otomiya86 posts about a particularly irate customer who - among other things - was unclear about whether he needed a "McDouble," which costs $1.00, and a "Double Cheese Burger," which costs $1.19. The story goes on to describe how the poster had to double check which one the customer actually wanted, as well as a quick mention as to what the difference between these two sandwiches are. Answer: the $1.00 one contains two patties and one slice of cheese, and the $1.19 contains two patties and two slices of cheese.

    However, for one [info]magickcat, bothering a customer for clarification is apparently unacceptable.

    Okay, seriously?
    The customer was a jackass, I will give you that.
    HOWEVER, your fussiness here about the McDouble/Double Cheeseburger thing is beyond ridiculous.
    I don't mean in dealing with this guy- you did the best you could with an idiot like that, but for YEARS there was a dollar menu double cheeseburger.
    Just because they took out one slice of cheese last year and decided to call it a "McDouble" doesn't mean that you shouldn't know what the heck someone is talking about when they specifty the "dollar menu double cheeseburger" which is EXACTLY WHAT A MCDOUBLE IS. There is a bun, there are two burgers, and there is cheese. I don't care how much you charge for it, its a freaking double cheeseburger. When someone specifies the "dollar menu double cheeseburger", if you don't know what they are talking about, well.... yeah.


    As the thread unfolds, the reason for such an outburst is soon explained... [info]magickcat is in fact a Cheeseburger Master!

    I understand the math of the cheese, I really do.
    What I am saying in that it is still a double cheeseburger, because it is...get this... two burgers.. WITH CHEESE.
    I don't eat at fast food restaurants, as a general rule, and we don't have In & Outs here, so your reference means nothing to me. It certainly isn't rocket science. I know a few rocket scientists, and they know that a sandwich with 2 burgers and cheese is a double cheeseburger. ;)

    "I understand the math of the cheese" may be my new favorite phrase.

    Cue rabid dogpiling and unsuccessful attempts to reason with Earth Logic and first grade math. Unfortunately it is all for naught as even [info]magickcat does not seem to know what exactly the point of the argument is. Depending on which thread you visit, it waffles from "they're both cheeseburgers; it's all the same" "Oh, you misunderstood: I wasn't talking about this customer at all, only a theoretical situation where everything was described perfectly," to the cost difference is all a conspiracy by McDonalds":

    NO, it costs more because McDonalds saw a way to make more money by adding another burger. They are all "meat"burgers, if you can legally call whatever they put in those things "meat"... I know damn well what is in each one because it was in the news and whatnot about what the change would be. My case is correct, and it stands.


    And the arguments just keep coming...

    Current Mood: *sporfle!*
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