| My word count is pastede on yay |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|07:50 pm] |
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| | The Format -- 'One Shot, Two Shots' | ] |
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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[Nov. 29th, 2008|09:10 pm] |
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Is there still such a thing as an early adopter account here at JF? I'm too broke right now to renew my paid account, and it looks like it bounced me back to free after it expired. |
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| Charitable Schadenfreude |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
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? |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|02:12 am] |
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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| "So long, suckers!" |
[Nov. 28th, 2008|05:49 pm] |
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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| in case you missed it... |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|11:42 am] |
The entire country was Rickrolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. |
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[Nov. 26th, 2008|09:46 pm] |
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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[Nov. 26th, 2008|06:49 pm] |
LJ appears to be down. Or is it just me? Right when I was doing something important, too.
(Comment fic is important, it really is).
[ETA]: It's back for me! |
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| Twilight |
[Nov. 25th, 2008|09:39 pm] |
I see that there have been many posts about Twilight lately! I'd just like to point out that I created a comm a little while ago, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) sparklefield, which is not part of the F_W network and is therefore not mandatory, but might keep people from getting fed up from an overload of Twilight-related posts. |
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| His hair is like an anus that way |
[Nov. 25th, 2008|11:20 pm] |
'Twilight' vampire Pattinson considers stakes of fame
Q: What is all this talk about you not washing your hair for months on end?
A: People are scared of my hair. But it starts washing itself after about three weeks. I'm just saying that. But, yeah, if it doesn't look dirty, why wash it? |
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| The Lotus Boob! It does haunt my dreams! |
[Nov. 24th, 2008|01:07 am] |
Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.)
Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page:
"This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image.
I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche."
Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down.
Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET.
Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing.
ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH." |
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[Nov. 23rd, 2008|08:23 pm] |
With only hours left until the offer expires, Dr. Pepper's website is down/crashing and I don't have my coupon yet.
I even called the number they have on the site and all I get is a busy signal. >:(
ETA: From the website - "Everyone in America has until 6 PM EST on Monday, November 24 to get a free 20 oz. Dr Pepper" |
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