This is interesting...

I went on news... and noticed frozen comment threads. Since when do they freeze comment threads on news?

Oh, I'm not complaining. I'm just surprised.

*giggles*

I love Calvin and Hobbes. This was almost my exact reaction after finding that out. I'm still not sure if I like knowing that little bit of information.

OMG!

The Neopet Fruit Machine

Congratulations!!!
You have won 15,000 Neopoints!
You also win a Stone Muffin and a Halloween Paint Brush!

*jawdrops and dies*

Is NC back up yet?

Oh, and I still need an icon for faerie_quests. Figgy, I don't *have* a favorite image.

Friend-of-a-friend...

Apparently, due to personal reasons, he's having to sell off his stuff to move. So, in order to help this friend-of-a-friend, I'm linking to the sale of cheap items.

Remember a while back I posted complaining about how screened comments are dealt with?

That whole "0 comments" thing is so clunky. It just confuses new people, and it makes it hard to see if an entry has screened comments on it. Sure, I can use the recent comments page, but if you get a lot of comments, and have a free account, that's not very useful.

So I finally got off my arse (metaphorically speaking) and sat down to send in a suggestion to the aptly named suggestions community about it.

Just in time, too, because now I have a new complaint. Why does the most recent comments page indicate in no way when comments aren't in reply to the main journal entry? I mean, it does, but only if the parent comment has a title on it. So I'm everlastingly responding to comments that weren't directed at me, and it's embarassing.

And no, the solution isn't for everyone to put a title on their comments. That's silly, and a bit ugly, since every reply to that comment, or to comments replying to that comment, will say re: something or other, and I don't like that.

Taken from mayhemwench

This article gets its own separate entry, because it's so cool. I'd like to see him hoisted on his own petard.

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I'm going to post a lot of NYTimes and Salon articles. Since I c+p them, I'll post the links here when I'm done, and backdate those entries. This should keep your Friends Page from massive spam.

(Still storing up other links, most of which will be sans credit, alas and alack.)

Three salon articles. Two having to do with the war, one having to do with weight.

Three Times articles. One on the war, one on misunderstanding foreign teachers, one on stupid hacker tricks.

Three more Times articles. One on the Pentagon's new database, one on a skate park under the Brooklyn Bridge, one on redesigning tall buildings.

Two articles, one on the causes of autism and one on a boy from India who wishes, in the long run, to go to the stars. One of those not-really-doom-and-gloom articles.

Two NYC related ones, one on fat camps.

One on New York and movies, one that's hard to explain, and one on King of the Hill and politics.

Last one. This one features the monkeys at Gibraltar, time travel, and the respective appearances of the sun and moon.

Salon articles

One on torture at Guatanamo.

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One on young Iraqi prostitutes in Syria.

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A less serious editorial-style article on fat and weight and body image.

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Some articles from the NYTImes...

One on language difficulties in the classroom.

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One on "zombie attacks".

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An editorial on Bush and this war.

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A few more Times articles...

One on redesigning the proposed park under the Brooklyn Bridge to be skateboarding friendly.

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One on redesigning tall buildings.

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One on the Pentagon's database.

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More articles!

One on an Indian boy who wants to join Nasa.

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One on the causes of autism.

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MORE articles!

First, the slideshow.

Then the article: Cups of New York.

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An article on movies of yore. That doesn't do this article justice.

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One on King of the Hill and politics.

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This should be the last batch, I think...

One on new subway rules, which they'll never really enforce.

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An article on "fat camps".

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A Lives article on hiking in Alaska.

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And an article about part of the new WTC.

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Okay, so this is the last one.

One on monkeys of Gibraltar.

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An article on time travel.

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And one having to do with the visual appearance of the sun and moon.

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