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Environmentalism FTW
China launches surprise crackdown on plastic bags:
China launched a surprise crackdown on plastic bags on Tuesday, banning production of ultra-thin bags and forbidding its supermarkets and shops from handing out free carriers from June 1.
The key phrase there: production of.
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Anti-fanfic bingo, Line Three
Fanfic Bingo, Round Three: Five issues: Raping the characters, MZB, ickyslash, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and immorality. Worthy of five essays, or one big one that ties in threads of ethics and legalities and the conundrum of our court system ( Read more... ) -
This post has a purpose
I'm not going to explain the purpose of this post, because it's a bit beyond "kinda silly." Pointless. Really ( Read more... ) -
Moving away from LJ
New Year's Resolution time, and all that. I want to make some changes.
I'm planning on crossposting less. (Among other reasons, I've found that custom locks flat-out don't work when crossposting with Semagic. So if I make a custom-locked post--like, to the slash readers only--I have to go to the entry and edit it manually, which kinda kills the ( Read more... ) -
Ficlet: Jack's Got Crabs
Fandom: PotC-AWE
Rating: W for Weird. Non-Explicit. More or less.
Summary: Even in Davy Jones' Locker, Jack finds allies.
Word Count: ~400 words
Pairing: Jack/Crab. Sort of.
A/N: Unbeta'd. I've wanted to write this since I first saw AWE.
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Books in 2007 meme
Books I absorbed in 2007 (grabbed from ( Read more... ) -
Anti-Fanfic Bingo, Round 2, part 1
These don't easily cohese in my mind the way the first set did. I think I'm going to take them on in reverse order.
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Pondering copyright laws; questions for lawyer types
In Which Elf Considers The Legality Of Litigation-Related Intimidation, or, is it legal to say "I'll sue you," even if there's no grounds for a lawsuit?
I've recently signed up at Wowio, which allows free download of three ebooks per day (and a queue of up to 500, so you can pick the ones you like to download later, and adjust the order you want ( Read more... ) -
TV schedule note
At 9pm PST, on the Sci-Fi Channel, the movie Elf will be playing.
We can't figure out how this is remotely "science fiction," so we assume they've categorized it as "horror."
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IJ's selling bazillion userpics
Squeaky's gone mad: 48 hour sale of Insane Userpics. Yes that is 5,000 userpics for the life of your account for a one time payment of $100.This sale will be over at 1:00pm EST (-0500 GMT) on Wednesday December 26th ( Read more... )