Now that LJ is finally purging various inactive accounts, anyone have the link to any information on that? What counts as an inactive account? We've had a few accounts we haven't used in a few years but would still like to keep the journals around at least, or import them elsewhere.

If you're getting a migraine from LJ's new comment style, here's why. Or even a regular headache, or eyestrain, or seizures, etc ( Read more... )

Fix Nation, a non-profit organization in Los Angeles which performs free spay/neuter surgeries for homeless and feral cats, as part of its TNR (trap-neuter-release) program, is in need of donations. FixNation has lost 20% of its budget this year due to a Los Angeles city court ruling eliminating funding for TNR programs, even though TNR has been ( Read more... )

I take back everything I said. (Okay, not everything, but your unasked-for changes have now been downgraded to a much lower level of concern in my mind.) LJ is much, much worse.

(what we said about it to them here.)

I understand you want as many people as possible to use your Chrome browser. But re-designing all of your services so that they will suck and be less accessible or downright inaccessible in every other browser? Ur doing it rong. You used to be a cool company compared to the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft. Please, please stop pulling this shit on ( Read more... )

Exhibit A: Someone on Youtube made a replica of one of the turrets from Portal. It has a motion sensor and uses recorded phrases from the game when you move your hand in front of it, though it does not have actual guns. (It also sings, though the person who made it didn't say what actually triggers it to do this ( Read more... )

A lot of our friends have posted this already, but I figure it bears repeating.

( Descriptions of animal cruelty, specifically to cats, included in here. LJ-cutting just to be on the safe side, because some of us have trouble reading about terrible things being done to cats. )

So, uh. Today's Writer's Block on LJ asks about "one thing you can stop or do to prevent bullying." This is a topic that... hits very close to home for us, even though we don't talk about it a whole lot publically; I'll just leave it at that for now. But we can give you, in fact, an entire list of bullying prevention tips guaranteed to work. ( Read more... )

not another one of these. please no ( Read more... )

A group of cats were recently rescued from an animal hoarder's house in Illinois, by an organization called Illinois Valley Cat Taxi (who also do a lot of no-kill shelter and TNR work). Many of the cats have severe illnesses and infections which need immediate treatment. Information about the case and some of the cats most urgently needing help ( Read more... )