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Mississippi legislature wants to ban fat people from restaurants
Originally from ebonypearl, also from ravan.
Mississippi is considering House Bill 282--Description: Food establishments; prohibit from serving food to any person who is obese.The upshot: "Any food establishment... shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health.... The State ( Read more... ) -
IJ down?
IJ seems to have disappeared, just in the last few minutes. (I was replying to a comment, and it froze up ( Read more... ) -
About that new Explore feature
EXPLORE LJ! Six new realms of posts aggregated by keyword-grabbing software!
I am enchanted by the lesbian slumber party in Culture, the Ginny/Hermione slash in Entertainment, the #80 - Rule number seven Supernatural fanfic in Life, Drugs and maybe some rock and no sex random post about life in Music (which contains no musical references except in ( Read more... ) -
New Opt-Out LiveJournal Feature
LJ has announced a new feature: the "Explore Area." Various public posts will be linked there.
The important part: you can Opt Out at the Viewing Options page, by clicking the box next to "Explore Area Exclusion." You cannot opt out for communities--instead, each individuals posts will be in or out based on their personal settings. Comms that ( Read more... ) -
How To Deal With Telemarketers
I did not create this. I found it on the web years ago, and then lost it. I'm re-creating it from memory.
*Rrriinnng....
*Rrriinnng...
[Pick up phone.]
FEMALE VOICE: Hi, I'm Debbie from Pointless Enterprises, and I'm calling today to offer you this wonderful offer which we are offering you because...
YOU: Who is this?
FV: I'm Debbie, from ( Read more... ) -
Thinking.
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Strikethrough Round 3 Begins?
shota is the target this time.
http://community.livejournal.com/ljspeaks/7830.html?view=254358#t254358 Dear LiveJournal user thefacelessevil ( Read more... ) -
Why fanfic?
Why don't we write our own stories, if we've got the talent?
Once we set aside the legal issues (which are complex, and plenty worthy of discussion on their own), and the ethics issues (wac, apwodoto), we're left with the key question of why do we do this--why write (or draw or vid or game or whatever we do) in someone else's universe, with ( Read more... ) -
Questions Meme
Most of you know the drill: respond indicating an interest in the meme, and you get five questions to answer on your journal.
These are from cordelia_v.
( Children's book, Gaming session, Pets, States lived in, Solstice with the Family ) -
100-day plan update
Interim post; later, I want to update this with links to all the history involved. (And I wanted one of those spiffy online countdown graphics, like people use for pregnancies, but preferably without the baby at the end, but I couldn't find one.)
It's been almost 40 days since SUP announced its 100-Day Plan to improve LJ. They said that, by March ( Read more... )