Unreality – The Most Badass Alphabet Ever |:
Also the most likely to never get turned into a real book
then and now photos of people aging : theCHIVE:
Really bizarre
The Life and Death of Guitar Hero – Xbox 360 Feature at IGN:
At least I finally got a guitar for my Wii
Fearing the Phase-Out of Incandescent Bulbs – NYTimes.com:
I can’t even begin to count how often I had to explain the new law to customers when I still worked at the hardware store.
Gallery of default anonymity: A work in progress:
Fun little gallery showcasing the ways we’re all anonymous across the net.
Oh this is neat. Change the width and height attributes of a YouTube embed and it shrinks the video to fit.
Big windstorm last night. Knocked out power this morning, blew all the numbers off the gas station sign across the street, and sent some of our gardening tools halfway across the lawn.
* a.k.a. Gone With the Wind
I’ve noticed a trend lately of spam accounts that have all started with xiaoqin, followed by a random assortment of letters. Running through all 1, 2, and 3 letter permutations led me to these valid accounts. There are too many 4 and 5 letter combinations to go searching, but I have seen them in the wild. I personally know that some of these suspended accounts were ones that I reported for spamming. Others haven’t posted anything or commented anywhere yet, but I presume they’ll be activated later.
Some observations:
* Most of the early ones had a listed location of Beijing, but further down the list they’re mostly listed as being in Flushing, NY.
* These accounts all list the same four auto-added communities.
* When they’re spamming comments they’re typically advertising www.fullmalls.com
* They’ve all been created in the last four months or so.
* I’ve also collected a gallery of the userpics used by these accounts – I think the spammers found some pictures from some innocent person on the internet and have appropriated her pictures to make their spambots seem more human.
The World’s Largest Gummy Bear: A 5 pound gummi bear!:
I kind of regret that I learned of this too late to order for Easter.
http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/10368879.html#cutid1
It looks like LJ is going to allow identity accounts to post to communities. My mission is complete.
Work in progress
This technique will display what looks like an LJ error page to anyone who visits your journal and is not logged in at LJ (log out and visit this entry again via this link). It gives the impression that there is a technical fault and they should try again later, but nothing will change until they log in.
Briefly:
1) Identify current layout and theme.
2) Create new theme layer.
3) Copy the contents of your current theme into the new theme layer.
4) Copy the code from the Page::print function in your current layout.
5) Paste the Page::print code from your current layout into the new code below, and then paste the entire thing into your new theme layer.
6) Edit your current style to use the new theme layer you just created.