Category: The Internet

  • A few things make a post

    A few things make a post

    Link roundup! Featuring fun reading on John Scalzi’s and Jim Hines’ site, as well as dwarf-based fanfic on TheOneRing.net. And oh yeah, me on Here Be Magic!

  • Link salad for Sunday

    Link salad for Sunday

    A few links of interest for your Sunday afternoon.

  • Another year, another round of LJ fail

    Another year, another round of LJ fail

    For those of you who may not have seen this yet, this story started going around last night. I saw the LJ Twitter account link to it, so one presumes this is indeed legit. The article’s talking about future plans for LJ, and it’s looking like the ongoing trend of not giving a damn about…

  • LJ’s latest PrivacyFail

    LJ’s latest PrivacyFail

    I’ve seen a lot of news going around about this, but for those of you who haven’t, LJ has just turned on new functionality to crosspost to Facebook and Twitter. On the face of it this seems fine. I crosspost regularly, as y’all probably know; all my posts these days originate from my WordPress blogs,…

  • Ensign Sue MUST DIE

    Ensign Sue MUST DIE

    Bwahahahaha! Spotted this over on Fandom Lounge on JournalFen: Ensign Sue Must Die! It’s a parody webcomic for the Trek Reboot! And it is HY-LARIOUS. As the commenters on F_L observed, Trek fandom has really come full circle. 😀

  • PSA: About that I Write Like meme going around

    PSA: About that I Write Like meme going around

    Y’all might want to check here and here for what seems to be going on with that. This is what you get for when bored geeks are on the case. (I myself have been told I’m reminiscent of Esther Friesner and Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters in some ways, which means quite a bit more to me…

  • On being a consumer vs. being a creator

    On being a consumer vs. being a creator

    So yeah, the iPad has dropped, and it’s caused the obligatory storm of reaction all over the Net. Cory Doctorow in particular, I noted, had a very passionate post up on boingboing about why he’s not going to buy an iPad and why he thinks the rest of us shouldn’t either. Now, most of his…

  • Lulzy Star Wars geekery

    Lulzy Star Wars geekery

    gave me a heads up to this: one fan’s tribute to what Star Wars might have been like if it had been an Icelandic saga! This is geekery I absolutely have to salute. Check it out. 🙂

  • Heads up, LJ peeps

    Heads up, LJ peeps

    For several days now, LJ’s feed of custom styles has been broken–which has meant that the custom style I set up to let it download a feed of my Friends list into my mail client hasn’t worked, so I’m totally behind on keeping up with all of you! If anybody posted anything addressed specifically at…