I did a slight friends-cut just now. Most if not all of you reading this on your flists should be entirely unaffected, since as far as I know I kept the people I've actually communicated with--here on LJ or anywhere else--within the past year or so. If, however, you can see this and you can't see the entry I posted about half an hour ago, and ( Read more... )

Dear Wealthy, Faceless Corporation ( Read more... )

There's a community that's sprung up to raise money for the earthquake victims in Haiti--it's called help_haiti, and I love the idea because I'm flat broke but want to help anyway. Sometimes the internet is the best thing ever.

The thing is, they want samples of one's work, and while I have an icon journal, I don't have anyplace I keep the other graphics ( Read more... )

So for some demented reason, I want to make icons relating to Arthurian legend now. This is in no way related to me listening to the music of Heather Dale a lot lately. Nope. Totally not at all. The problem is, I don't know that much about it*, and I probably wouldn't ever use them myself. So ( Read more... )

A few days ago I wrote on my whiteboard
There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
1. Those who know this doesn't have to be a setup to a binary joke.
2. Those who don't.
&
10. Those who aren't reading this at all.

Base three: it's math, too!
A short while later, I had people commenting on base eight ("base 8 is like base 10 if you have two fewer ( Read more... )

So I encountered--somewhere, can't remember where--a meme where one selects quotes from twenty of one's favorite movies and posts them, and people have to guess the movies. The problem is that I kind of hate watching movies and so know very few of them. I picked ten. There should be 20, though. Uh... pretend there are? ( Quotes are from Wikiquote and may be wrong. )

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

( Cherry double-chocolate chip cookie recipe, adapted from the back of a bag of Nestlé semisweet chocolate chips. Is delicious, not that hard, and chocolatey. )

Amazon thinks it's a good idea to remove sales rankings of books dealing with GLBTQ issues--thus also removing those books from searches on the site.

No, really; I'm not making this up.

And--all hail the power of Google--

Amazon rank

I just spent almost fifteen minutes trying to explain a question to my psychology professor so that he could figure out how to answer it. And I failed in said attempt. argh.