So I have the AO3 freeform canonicals in a nice json file, and now I am looking at them. And I am boggling.

There are 14400 tags total in this category, but the tail of infrequently-used tags is very long indeed. Only 434 canonical freeform tags used more than 500 times each. Bring the cutoff down to 100 uses and you get 1589 tags, which is still ( Read more... )

I enjoyed this comment on the anon meme about why fandom seems to ship the same thing over & over: it's because we sort of have one ship and we tend to hammer everything into the shape of that one ship.

To mix one's metaphors, there.

Anyway. Today I ask you if you have any examples of pinboard fic collections that are particularly well-tagged in ( Read more... )

I had as a goal Sunday recording a video of some archive interaction live. I got distracted by working on the project instead. I hacked for about 12 hours Saturday and Sunday both on a ton of stuff. Have begun to split out some submodules into open-source pieces. I'll try to record something tonight when my marathon 14-hour Monday is over. ETA: Doh ( Read more... )

Hmm. I need to write back-end support for following people and for importing data from external sources and then I think I'm done with the heavy lifting on the back end. It'll all be miserable web app & browser app work from there on. I dunno, maybe I should take a week off and deep-end on import. Haven't thought about how to do it yet ( Read more... )

For your pleasure and edification today: a whole lot of meteorite videos on one page. All hail the ubiquity of the Russian anti-scam dash cam!

Since you have all kindly chimed in on the topic of fic vs story and comment vs feedback, here are some fun things in return.

Bonus gaming: I just finished playing Little Inferno and enjoyed it immensely. I played it on the iPad (see review), but I think there's a PC version as well as a Wii-ish version.

Bonus music: Boston vs the Black-Eyed Peas ( Read more... )

Terminology poll for you all. ( Behind the cut because, well, manners. )

RIP Robin Sachs. Dammit. Too young at 61.

I have no joke here. I just like saying "spate". Spate spate spate.

Home sick again today. It’s the flu, or something like it, because I was running a fever of 100F last night. Uncool, particularly because I got the flu shot this year for the first time ever. It should at least have the good grace to immunize me against something. But I read that ( Read more... )

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