| Girl in custody fight adjusts to life in China |
[01 Dec 2008|03:43pm] |
Remember Anna Mae?
Ugh, I just find this turn of events depressing. That poor girl sounds so sad and lonely.
For people who haven't heard about the case before: here is a summary.
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[28 Nov 2008|06:50pm] |
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Wal-Mart worker dies in rush; two killed at Toys R' Us shooting
Because cheap stuff is SO worth trampling someone to death and impeding police officers trying to help the guy or shooting them!
(I don't know if people outside the US are familiar with the situation: in short, the day after Thanksgiving is commonly called "Black Friday", and a ton of stores open early and offer deep discounts to the early shoppers. However, some merchandise- expensive things like TVs, DVD players, digital cameras, computers and so on- is in limited quantities, so there's often an insane rush to grab them before they run out. Hence why there was the stampede at Wal-Mart.)
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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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[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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| CNN.com/live |
[26 Nov 2008|02:46pm] |
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Haven't found links for it, yet (I'm still looking)
Found a yahoo link: Lori Drew convicted
Apparently, she was only convicted of lesser charges, just misdemeanors, for the Megan Meier case.
( Article )
CNN.com/live reported that there was a mistrial for at least one charge, and their legal expert doubts that there will be any time served.
... I'm very disappointed.
Cnn.com link
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| A game the whole family can play! |
[25 Nov 2008|06:22pm] |
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There's Doctor Who shipping bingo, FPB bingo, Ginmar bingo, Twilight fangirl bingo, and now there is also... Slytherfen bingo.
( Read more... )
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| Oh, Heroes |
[25 Nov 2008|09:33am] |
A self-described "pseudonymous" source tipped this bawwwesome, bawwwwful wank-in-the-making to me.
I don't watch Heroes, but here is my source's description:
Heroes is kind of not such a great show as in "great show," but more like "trainwreck." And they've been retconning these two characters like whoa in order to justify a romantic story line between the two. And then this picture came out, it's a spoiler for an upcoming episode, and( SPOILER CUT. )
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| It was sweet, and then the beak fell off. |
[23 Nov 2008|11:02am] |
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I think the theory that Meg over at Cute Overload occasionally posts questionable content just to fuck with her viewers maybe true. Yesterday, Meg posted this video which tells the touching story of a dog who comes to a farm as a puppy and the duck (a male duck named Sheila) who adopts him. Unfortunately, Sheila eventually dies of old age.
That's where it gets weird.
Sheila's owners decide to get the duck embalmed and present the stuffed results to the dog, who is very happy to see his friend again. So happy, in fact, that he knocks her fake beak off. The video ends with one of the owners dragging Sheila's corpse so the dog can chase after it.
( And of course, all hell breaks loose in the comments. )
( You're all horrible people and I'm never coming back here again! )
And then someone reveals that the video was fake, made as commercial for an Argentinian Internet Provider. Their tagline translates to "Internet you talk about."
( This commercial is animal cruelty! )
There's more to the thread, including discussions on the merits of giving ducks wheels, people quoting sketches about parrots who are pining for the fjords, and the vegans also weigh in toward the end.
I'll leave the parting shot to Sara here:
If dragging my preserved body around the yard made my friend that happy, I'd be fine with it.
ETA: Link to commercial fixed, sorry.
ETA 2: The Duck Drags Back: We have more angry flounces!
( Apparently these people missed the comments about how the whole thing was staged and that the whole McKenzie / Sheila friendship was made up. )
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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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| 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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