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Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 06:48 pm Hey Now Jamaica's got a Bobsled team...
Wait?

What?

Oh for the love of god...

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/724659--how-a-halloween-getup-went-badly-wrong?bn=1

It's a FUCKING HALLOWE'EN COSTUME MORONS!

If anything there's more hair pulling nonsense over this than RDJ in Tropic Thunder* and he was nominated for an Academy Award for doing what he did.

Then again, there's an African American guy in the picture with white face on...

*sigh*

I have some spare quarters, but I doubt they would be enough to buy everyone involved a sense of humor.

Logan

*yes, I did {in fact} think "What do YOU mean YOU people!?" when I first saw this story.
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Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 01:53 pm LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares!

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

  1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
  2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
  3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
  4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
  5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
  6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

  1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
  2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
  3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
  4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
  5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to [info]lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit [info]lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at [info]lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

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Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 12:47 pm this saturday
we're on first, at 10:30 SHARP.

please call your london friends & ask them to come drinking with us!


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[info]cyn
Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 12:46 pm this sunday!


Join us this Sunday, November 15th at 7:30pm at The Central (603 Markham Street in Toronto)
as we launch the new Fall 2009 Burning Effigy Press titles!


With feature readings from:
IAN ROGERS (Temporary Monsters)
and
MIKE BRYANT (Operation Dickhead)

Additional performances by:
RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K)
CYNTHIA GOULD (Some Words Spoken)
DALE PERCY (Everyone's Everyman)

And special guest:
Comedian CHRIS GIBBS

NO COVER. SHOW STARTS PROMPTLY AT 8pm.
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Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 12:03 pm New Song For Heather!!!
"I'm Too Nerdy To Write a Love Song"
http://www.myspace.com/highheelslofi <-- listen now!
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[info]highheelslofi
Nov. 12th, 2009 @ 02:01 am Twitter!
  • 11:09 @hellojodi i'm usually into guitarists, but have flung with other musicians. it's just too easy to mock bass players. :) #
  • 11:10 should we officially call our music "drunkrawk"? #
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 01:19 pm Friday: Jammin' on the One (Toronto)
Remember that episode of The Cosby Show in which the Huxtables visited Stevie Wonder in his recording studio, and he asked Theo what he was most likely to say at a party, and Theo replied, "Jammin' on the One!", and without even bothering to ask Theo what that even meant or why anyone on the planet would ever say something like that, Stevie went and made a stuttering rap song out of it on his synthesizer?

Well, there's a monthly improv jam named after it.

It's one of Toronto's foremost open improv jams, and it's back this Friday, November 13. This week's show will feature a performance by comedy troupe We're From Here, and some comic spoken word. This will be followed by an improv session in which anybody in the audience can take part.

That's at 14 Elm Street (near Dundas/Yonge) in Toronto, third floor (you have to ring a silly doorbell to get in), doors 7:30 p.m., no cover.
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 09:00 am DORK TOWER, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Reimaginiff

Super Happy Robot Cartoon Reimagined Fun Hour

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[info]dorktowerfeed
Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 02:01 am Twitter!
  • 21:18 London, Ontario... i think we need to start apologizing now... this saturday might get a wee bit insane.... #
  • 21:19 you may have heard my spoken word piece "Why I Don't Sleep With Bass Players". well, that's about to change this saturday night!! #
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Nov. 10th, 2009 @ 11:41 pm What a load of crap...
So... prisoners detained in Afghanistan aren't covered under the Geneva Convention?

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/723809--dnd-appears-to-back-off-plan-to-vaccinate-afghan-detainees?bn=1

Far be it from me to claim that no-Conservative {that supports the Progressive Conservative Party anyway} has EVER actually READ the Geneva Convention... but they should probably start before more foaming at the mouth ensues:

http://www.icrc.org/web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions

Especially Common Article 3.

I'm all for the military as I know the training that they are put through first hand, and to be honest, if even the Conservative Government is this ass-backwards with regards to dealing with our boys, we're toast.

They're the ones that are supposed to be pro-military.

I really wish there was a fiscally Conservative party that we could vote for, one that wants to balance budgets without all that religious mamba-jahambo nonsense that is associated with the other one. {Church and State should be separate}

Logan
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Nov. 9th, 2009 @ 06:21 pm Soaked at 6900 fps.
I had an awesome weekend. :)

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[info]zestyping
Nov. 9th, 2009 @ 12:27 pm The Haiku Deathmatch is *tonight*
Tags:
The Haiku Deathmatch --
If you're not there this evening
You're having less fun

It will be better
Than an army of monkeys
Flying out your butt


http://superjill.livejournal.com/794264.html
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Nov. 9th, 2009 @ 02:02 am Twitter!
  • 14:44 Fresh air, sunshine, rowing and sobriety. This is so not the rock'n roll lifestyle... #
  • 19:39 Roy is our private dancer. I'm not sure he should go public. #
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Nov. 8th, 2009 @ 02:02 am Twitter!
  • 18:30 Cyn is looking at her fingers and laughing like a loon. Now she's laughing even harder. She takes this being in a band thing seriously. #
  • 18:32 Her leg is apparently very heavy, which is also very funny. Yeah, i dunno either... #
  • 18:33 Annnnd up is difficult, in slippy socks...apparently... #
  • 22:14 Point Break:a bromantic comedy for our time. Also?Cyn recognizes Ratt when she hears them...just sayin, even though i wasn't sposed to.Heh #
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Nov. 7th, 2009 @ 11:42 pm % It's been five years since third age began %
This evening [info]jo_etal and I finished watching Babylon 5. It's taken us about a year to plug through a total of 110 episodes. It's not perfect, but I'm very glad that we did it. I much prefer this sort of thing to trying to watch a series in realtime as it comes out.

I'm not sure what might be next. I have a crazy desire to watch Lexx from beginning to end, but I know that you can never go back...

[A wonderful quote from the Lexx Wikipedia page:
Not originally produced for a US network, the series features more sexual innuendo and nudity than audiences in the United States are generally accustomed to seeing in non-premium programming.]
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Nov. 7th, 2009 @ 02:02 am Twitter!
  • 07:57 we're playing in London, Ontario on Sat. Nov. 14 at GIRLS NIGHT OUT. myspace.com/highheelslofi for details. #
  • 07:58 we need a few hundred toronto people with cars & pink flags to follow us west, entourage style. interested? *evil grin* #
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Nov. 6th, 2009 @ 02:02 am Twitter!
  • 08:09 GENIUS! www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2408 #
  • 13:51 Just offered cow-orker a biscuit, and he said 'Oooh yes!Hey!That says dog treats!...Oh, those are good!'Heh.And this is not a drunk tweet. #
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Nov. 6th, 2009 @ 06:01 am DORK TOWER, Friday, November 6, 2009 - Wow, Coming Up With “Captcha” Titles is Hard…

Super Happy Robot Cartoon Captcha VI Fun Hour

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Nov. 6th, 2009 @ 01:51 am HPL Virus
Current Music: Emilie Mover - Ordinary Day
On the subject of TTC, I have decided to film and produce a, uh, film... called What Are They Doing At High Park Loop?

It will be a series of long shots where I converse with someone who's waiting for the 506 Carlton Streetcar at a series of stops, during both rush hour and at 4 in the morning. The terrifying and controversial ending will consist of a film crew (me and a friend with camcorders/digital cams) hiding in the bushes at High Park Loop, one of the endpoints of the 506 line, and seeing how long and how many streetcars stay lined up there just talking to each other, and then simultaneously leave.

This might explain why there often are horrendously huge crowds at any given stop on one side of the street, for 40 minute gaps, after which a lineup of 5-12 streetcars in a row come barreling down the rails. I kid you not. You'll also see here that the longest scheduled gap at any point of operation is 30 minutes.

I'll let you know when said film is screening.

~Myke
this rant is taken from a response I made to a friend's journal entry
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Nov. 5th, 2009 @ 01:15 pm LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest


The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to [info]xkcd_rss, [info]icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!



[info]c_s_i

If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! [info]c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join [info]c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.



Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at [info]lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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