arduinna

I was hoping to get this done before season 2 started up, but I'll have to settle for getting it done before season 2 gets too far in.

This past spring,

therienne found a song that would be perfect for OUaT, and we started vidding it. (You can find the vid You can find the vid here on Dreamwidth or here on AO3.)

When you vid something, you're looking at it completely differently. Usually the sound is off so you're not distracted by dialogue, and you're looking specifically for visual information and cues.

So I started getting hit with these cues, and being boggled at how much I'd missed. And figured I'd share!

This is really image-heavy, fair warning.

The first thing I realized was that everyone in Storybrooke still lives in the forest.

( Starting with Granny's diner )

( And Mary Margaret's school )

( And the vet )

( Jefferson, too )

( And there's Regina's office )

( Even Rumpelstiltskin is in the forest )

Not every place is in a forest; some are in gardens.

( Like, say, Granny's bed & breakfast )

( And Kathryn, who lives in a bower because she's a sheltered princess )

( Mary Margaret is also a princess... )

The only prominent secondary character who didn't seem to follow this mode was Archie. He has stripes on his office walls, much like the stripes on Henry's bedroom walls -- but Henry isn't part of the story, and Archie is, so this was confusing.

( Until I figured it out )

I never noticed any of that when I was watching live. I'm really impressed with the set people on this show. Like, did you notice any trends there?

( Look at the birch branches and trunks )

I've got a series of posts like this, which I'll spread out a bit. Next up, Regina and Rumple and their castles.

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OUaT s1 picspam series

Part 1: You are here!

Part 2: Regina and Rumple: colors and castles

Part 3: Clothes make the match

Part 4: Clothes make the point

Part 5: Disney references

Part 6: Bits and pieces

I had planned to do grown-up, responsible things this weekend, and that is still my plan, but now, as a reward for being a grown-up?

I am totally going to go watch superheroes bond and blow shit up (thanks to

devildoll for the heads-up!)

The Avengers is back in US theaters for a week, starting this weekend. The studio is apparently telling people to be sure to sit through the credits, so there are suspicions flying around that there may be an additional post-credits scene -- maybe an Iron Man 3 tease?

\o/

I'm on a Person of Interest reading binge, and hit a summary that mentioned an OC named Daisy Buchanan, causing me to go very cranky and muttery, because dude, you can't just steal your OC's name from literature and expect people not to notice! Come on!

But I start reading anyway, just because. And it's well-written, so I start to go hmmm, and then I find out that the author isn't stealing names after all, she's specifically referencing The Great Gatsby in multiple ways, and dropping other literary allusions around to boot.

\o/

I hereby publicly retract my private cranky muttering!

*dives happily back in*

Almost two months ago, I asked for today off from work, because I know what Vividcon deadline day is like, and there is no way a few hours in the evening is enough time. This was meant to be a day of panic and flail, with last-minute fixes to the vid (or, worst-case, still filling in black space), and then dealing with exporting and aspect ratios and tech fail.

Instead, it's day of rest*, because

therienne and I finished our vid last night, exported it, and uploaded it more than 24 hours before the deadline.

Vidding Deadline Threat Level: KITTENS.

Unfortunately, Vidding Deadline Threat Level Adrenaline Reaction: BEARS

So we spent the next hour having little bursts of panic at each other, because how is it possible to be done and uploaded before the deadline? Vid farr is not over till the deadline passes!

Then I went home and we got on the phone and panicked at each other more. See above, re: vid farr and bears.

Then I fell asleep in my chair before I could manage to write a post. I may have been a little tired.

And now? I am home, lounging about my apartment with my cats for the first time in weeks. I can clean my pit of a place, and buy groceries omg, and maybe watch some tv, or read...

I still don't quite believe it, and am braced to find out that

therienne has gotten word from Lum and Ian that we screwed something up horribly, and need to fix it right damn now.

But until that email comes in, it is kittens all around. Yay!

* It is not actually that restful a day so far. I got home last night after midnight to the sight of a van from my oil company pulling away from in front of the house, and the scent of oil in my apartment, but no message from my landlord's son, so I figured it was a problem with his tank that had been handled.

Then this morning I got woken up a bit after 10 by a call saying that he'd found a leak in my tank last night (just a tiny pinhole leak), which had been plugged, but today they were coming to drain & remove the old tank, and install & fill a new one.

So now the basement under my feet is full of oil-company guys yelling and banging and drilling and otherwise using implements of destruction to scare the hell out of my cats.

But still. I am not at work! And I am not over at

therienne's! I am HOME! \o/

( So have some kittens )

If I sign up for

hc_bingo enough, eventually I will actually manage to pull off a bingo, right?

( This year's card beneath the cut! )

Somewhere on my network, I found a link to this webcomic, "Little League", which I then spent a while reading all the way through. It's little-kid Justice League, and it is one of the cutest things I have ever seen.

Case in point: wee Bruce gets sent to timeout for misbehaving in class

<3 <3 <3

I'm a JL fan from the cartoon rather than DC comics, and this isn't quite a match (no Hawk Girl; Barry Allen instead of Wally West for the Flash; Hal Jordan instead of John Stewart for Green Lantern; and the addition of Power Girl), but it's adorable anyway.

I started reading backward from the link above, then realized I wanted the whole thing in order, because this is a storyline, not standalones.

You can read the whole thing via the little league tumblr's archive, or by paging back to the first strip and moving forward, which is probably going to be a lot easier (definitely easier if you're reading on mobile, where you can't mouseover to see the dates on the archived strips).

As of right now, it starts on page 5 -- scroll down, then start reading forward.

I'm following it on tumblr now, but tumblr moves so fast and I didn't want to miss anything, so I checked and it turns out there's already a DW feed for it:

littleleaguecomics_feed

(If you want to link to this and keep the cut tags intact so it isn't overwhelming, link to the archive page: http://arduinna.dreamwidth.org/2012/05/24/ )

So I have a tumblr (as

aka-arduinna), and have been trying to figure it all out. Which is a whole lot less easy than it should be.

Tumblr in general takes the attitude that it's so incredibly intuitive that nothing needs to be explained, even in the Help pages that you'd think would be, you know, helpful. But if it's intuitive, it's for people who aren't me; I find it ridiculously opaque and cumbersome and illogical, and it's taken me months to figure out and/or remember what to click to do what. I wind up doing desperate web searches hoping someone somewhere has explained things, since the Tumblr help files are largely useless for the basics.

I've been frustrated with the fannish tutorials I've stumbled across, since most of them seem to be "First, get a tumblr. Second, here's a list of tumblrs I follow to get you started!" without actually explaining how to use the site. My impression is that once you're comfortable on it, you just forget how freaking opaque it is to start with. (Or they're people for whom Tumblr really is intuitive and simple, and don't realize that for some of us, it's really not.)

I have found some posts about specific things that have been very useful, for things like "how to get a permalink for a post" and "how to add a tag cloud", which is great, but the lack of a basics post was really getting to me.

So I figured, well, I should do something about that.

First, a GIANT CAVEAT: I still pretty much suck at tumblr. I've been poking tentatively at it for months, badly hampered by the speed, the lack of convo, my cultural conditioning not to pass other people's content along but rather to either respond directly or link back to it, and the rampant flashy animations that make my eyes hurt. But otoh I figure that means I still have a pretty good grasp on what stuff may be confusing, so.

(You can't avoid the flashy animations, as far as I can tell. Figured I should say that upfront.)

Second, a smaller caveat: my tumblr is in the default free theme, at least for the moment. All my images and instructions relate to that; I have no idea how they may change with other themes. But hopefully this will be enough to at least point you in the right direction.

So! Let's talk tumblr.

( Using tumblr without an account )

It's still going to be easier to learn and play with tumblr if you have an account and are logged into it, though, since you'll be able to participate and do things like save your searches. So the rest of this tutorial is still based on "get a tumblr and go from there".

So first, sign up with tumblr. Once you've got an account, you can start customizing.

( Customizing your tumblr )

( Adding the things tumblr left out: tag lists and comments )

Okay, so now you have a tumblr, and it looks the way you want it to. Time to start doing things with it!

( Navigating tumblr )

( Finding content )

( Producing content )

( Avoiding content )

( Communicating with people )

Annnnnd I think that's it. Hopefully people will stop by and correct any errors!

Also, I would love to see pointers to people's favorite tumblrs, to help folks get started once they're set up!

A million thanks to

therienne and

mollyamory, who betaed the first draft of this when I sprang it on them out of nowhere, and pointed out broken images and incoherence like champs. ♥ I've added more since then, and any remaining incoherence or bustedness is all on me.

The cartoon has better music (or rather,had better music, before they butchered it this season, sob), but despite that, I went to the movie Sunday with

therienne and

mollyamory. Which, thank god, because now we can all stop squinting and averting our eyes from the intarwebs.

( random spoilers ho! )

Relatedly, wooooooo we're gonna get Black Widow backstory!
'Black Widow' movie will focus on the heroine's origin

I was sure they wouldn't give us a movie for her at all, because, you know, she's female. But yay, already confirmed! \o/

( cut for reaction spoilers )

Images:

There's currently a

smallbatchicons request fest going on for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth; anyone can request up to five icons on any theme (show, character, color, emotion, object, whatever), and anyone can fill those requests.

If you're the requester, you leave a comment with screencaps/images you want the icon-maker to use, or if you want text, leave that instead.

Fanfic:

Not Prime Time is open for signups. "Not Ready For Prime Time (Fandoms), or otherwise known as Not Prime Time, is a gen, het, femslash, and slash multifandom secret fiction exchange for medium sized fandoms. This is for the fandoms that are no longer eligible for Yuletide but are not megafandoms."

This looks like a lot of fun, and I'd probably be signing up if the deadline wasn't four days before the Vividcon deadline. Woe.

Not Prime Time (AO3 collection)
Frequently Asked Questions | Megafandoms List
npt_admin on LJ | npt_admin on DW

Fandom

And finally, this is little late, but, there's still ~~just about an hour~~ about 45 minutes to take the OTW survey, if you haven't yet.

A grey circle with black border that contains three ticky boxes,each with a word next to it: OTW, survey, taker

I took the OTW
Community Survey!

click to take!

With a few minutes to spare, even. \o/

And then I packed up all the source I'd brought over to

therienne's over the last month and dragged my sorry ass home.

This is the first time we've tried doing a CV vid, mostly out of worry at the early deadline; it takes us a long time to creak up to vidding. But we persevered and pulled it out, go us! And hopefully we haven't screwed up the aspect ratio. (The curse of switching software as often as we do -- it's always a different method, and we always have to just cross our fingers and hope.)

*sends sympathy to Ian and Lum, facing the deluge of last-minute CV vids and desperate emails*

*crawls off to turn on tv for the first time in a week to decompress*

I have watched no tv in days and days, because this weekend is the Club Vivid deadline, hahahaha omg. So now it's not just vidding every weekend, it's vidding every night, until it's done or we kill each other, whichever comes first. (We're not at a killing place, but we haven't hit the point of trying to export VVC-ready files using our new software, or checking the vid on a tv and freaking out over the suddenly awful aspect ratios yet, either. So "finish or die" is still a tossup, really. Sunday's gonna be fun.)

But I must interrupt this tv-free vid farr to say:

YAY fifth season for Fringe!! ♥

I was crossing my fingers that the lure of easy syndication would win out over poor ratings. It's only a 13-ep season, but honestly I think that's perfect; they can hone it all right down without worrying about any filler. Woot!

(If you want to link to these and keep the cut tags intact for people, link to my front page or link to this archive page)

For the Meta Month of March thing (

month_of_meta), someone asked for "Tales of fandom past. Anyone who was around in the mailing-list era or before...I want to hear How Things Were Different Back In The Day."

Which made me feel both really old and like a raw newbie again (there were so many days before The Day! so many people have been around so very much longer than me!). But I also thought to myself, well, this is something I can do. I was there, I really enjoyed it very much, and it won't be that hard. It'll be a little bit long maybe, but not too bad.

Then I started writing. I wasn't entirely sure where to start it, or what angle to approach it from, so I had five or six different starts written out. And then I just started writing, and writing, and writing.

Yeah, this got ridiculously long, even for me, so I'm breaking it out into three posts.

Disclaimer
First the disclaimers and caveats: This is what my experience of mailing-list-based fandom 10-18 years ago (oh dear god) was like, to the best of my recollection. Other people had different experiences, sometimes hugely different, depending on when they came into fandom, what fandom was their gateway, whether they were monofannish or not, whether they were into slash or not, whether they lurked or were active, etc. The only thing that would be mostly the same for everyone is that posts were made, distributed, and read via email.

I had written up a giant step-by-step explanation of my fannish background for context, but it boils down to this: I started out in SF fandom in 1980, found a few slash zines in a dealer's room around 1985, and then totally failed to connect further with media and especially slash fandom until around 1994, when I got on the internet through work and discovered Forever Knight mailing lists. I knew about newsgroups but for some reason they intimidated me, and I stuck to lists; looking back, I regret that, as the newsgroups were hugely active and I probably would have had a lot of fun if I could have adapted to the way they worked.

My personal experience is with Western, tv-based fandoms that revolved around discussion of the source, producing fanworks (which wasn't a word yet - we wrote fanfic, drew art, made vids, tribbed to or edited or published or agented zines), consuming fanworks (likewise), and to some degree attending (or putting on) cons. If you came in through SF fandom, you might say all of that, including the participation in lists/newsgroups/cons/APAs/zines, was your fanac, a term that I wish had gained as much traction as fanworks, because it doesn't narrow down the field of "people who actively create fandom" to people with creative urges.

As time went on I slid more and more toward slash-based fandom, but with the same emphasis as before on discussion, fanworks, and interaction.

Okay, so, with all of that out of the way, here's my take on what mailing-list fandom was like, from about 1994 to the early/mid-2000s.

( The medium defined the message )

( Signal-to-noise: bandwidth and storage )

( Size limits: text, images, video, music )

( Things were pricy )

Looking back on it, it all looks sort of wretched, no? Slow, creaky, limited, expensive.

But at the time, it was amazing. $3,000 for a 4 G system sounds like a lot of money 15 years later -- but 10 years earlier, I'd've paid $3k just for a 15 MB hard drive and installation kit, plus another $2k if I wanted a second unit. My computer had a graphical user interface! It had a web browser! (I didn't have one at work; we didn't need them. We had email, and if you knew enough to ask, you could get a newsreader, too. What else could you possibly need?)It had an internal modem!

We were living the good life.

( ascii art )

part 2
part 3

(If you want to link to these and keep the cut tags intact for people, link to my front page or link to this archive page)

(disclaimer in part 1)

Finding fandom

It wasn't easy to stumble over fandom in the 1990s if you didn't have a specific interest in it. Which doesn't mean it was hard to find!

But fandom wasn't being talked about on tv, or in random newspaper/magazine articles, or being linked to off mainstream sites. Media companies weren't hosting forums to try to corral people's fannishness into appropriate venues, where like-minded people could easily find each other and link off to other more fannish sites; mostly TPTB were sending C&Ds to people who posted pictures of their show, and being very wary of this whole "world wide web" thing that was taking control away from them.

(source: a 1997 cache of the page X-File Fan Fiction Links, found on Wayback If you click that link, it will look different than my image; I made my browser's background black before I took the screenshot, so it would look the way it did originally. There were an awful lot of black-background XF sites around then...)

Most fans were careful never to publicly link back to (or even mention) fan sites, to protect each other. If there was a newspaper article about us somewhere, it got talked about and linked (or quoted, if it wasn't online) all over the place, as something rare and strange and worrying (journalists almost always got it wrong, for one thing).

(Fifteen years later, I still twitch when I see people linking to archives or vid sites or individual fanworks in public forums, particularly media-controlled forums. The instinct to hide was instilled that strongly.)

And really, everything, not just fandom, was out of sight in the very early days. The web was brand new, small, and scattered, and consisted of lots of little pockets of interest that weren't very well connected. Search engines were in their infancy, as well, and not everything was indexed.

But pretty much, all you had to do was look around on the web or Usenet for your preferred source's title, and you would manage to find something that would point you in the right direction.

( Online services companies )

( Links pages )

( Webrings )

( Fanlistings )

Where the fans were talking

Discussion was the primary function of fandom in the 90s, at least in my corners of it; fanfic was great and got devoured, but it was secondary to talking about the show. (Although for that matter, we also talked about the fanfic.) While there were people who only wanted the fic and ignored the discussions, there were also people who only wanted the discussions and ignored the fic. And where today someone watching an episode might think "I wonder what would have happened if he'd accepted the coffee?" and write a 600-word snippet about it, back in the day they were as likely to post the question to their preferred discussion place and start a conversation about it that could last for days. (Or vanish without a ripple. You never knew.)

So fans were talking all over the place, and there was a good chance you could find a format that worked for you; if you didn't want to talk, you could lurk and watch other people talking. Like anything else, it was 5-15% of the people doing the talking in most places, while everyone else lurked.

( Newsgroups )

( Mailing lists )

( Message boards )

( IRC and other forms of chat )

( Personal websites and archives for essays and reviews )

Where the fans were reading fanfic

To start with, if you were on newsgroups, mailing lists, or message boards, you were very probably reading fanfic there as well, either mixed in with regular discussion or on separate fic-specific groups/lists/boards.

Beyond that, the two main ways to find fanfic was on archives and on personal web sites.

( Archives )

( Personal webpages )

( Newsletters )

Monofannish or Multifannish

There's a myth that it was hard to be multifannish in the heyday of mailing lists. It wasn't hard at all, even before Karen's site; it was just that if you didn't have multifannish tendencies to begin with, it was easy to be monofannish and just play in the one sandbox that interested you. You could ignore anything that wasn't relevant to your own personal interests.

( Looking for more fandoms )

( Spreading the cross-fandom word )

part 1
part 3

(If you want to link to these and keep the cut tags intact for people, link to my front page or link to this archive page)

(disclaimer in part 1)

Time to talk about actual mailing lists!

Mailing lists changed over time; in a lot of ways, this goes back to "the medium defined the message" again.

(I'm going to caveat here and say: some of this information is 18 years old and got dug out of very dusty corners of my mind. This is all to the best of my recollection, but take that with a grain or six of salt, please.)

( A brief history of lists )

( General list etiquette )

( Gen v Het v Slash )

( Public and private lists )

( What did people talk about, anyway? )

( RPF )

( Spoilers )

( Posting fanfic )

( TPTB on the lists )

( Getting/trading source )

So I will wrap up with:

( Getting to know people on lists )

And that is my incredibly long, yet incredibly brief and incomplete, look at fandom on mailing lists.

\o/

part 1
part 2

Okay, what is going on with this show? I started watching it originally sort of intermittently, decided I liked it, and started watching regularly. And for a while it was great! It was your basic cop procedural but I like the characters, and it was all about Sam and G, and their relationship.

It was fun! Sam and G mooned around making eyes at each other; I loved Hetty, and Dom, and Kenzie was okay but not my favorite. And then they started changing things up – got rid of Dom, brought in Deeks, so we lost the chance to watch Sam mentor a young agent and instead got to watch a sleaze leer all over Kenzie. Awesome. (Yeah, yeah, sleaze with a heart of gold, whatever, I don't care.)

(Fair warning, this is long...)

( And then we get to this season. )

I completely failed to get this posted last week as planned, but at least there's only been one new episode of anything since then thanks to March Madness. So here are some sort of random observations/reactions to some of the shows I'm watching (assume spoilers through current episodes, although I've cut put nested cut tags for specific recent spoilers):

( Fringe )

( Once Upon a Time )

( Grimm )

( Lost Girl )

I think that's it for currently airing SFF. I'm waiting for a couple others to come back for a new season (fingers crossed).

( Haven )

( Alphas )

Whew. I've probably forgotten half a dozen shows, but this is quite long enough.

(edited to fix cut tags argh why can't you see those on preview!)

Via

white_lotus, Korra premieres on Saturday, April 14th, at 11am E/P!

The Legend of Korra, in which the mythology of the beloved animated franchise from Avatar: The Last Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko continues. The series centers around a new Avatar named Korra, a 17-year-old headstrong and rebellious girl who continually challenges and bucks tradition on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar in a world where benders are under attack. The half-hour series will debut on Saturday, April 14, at 11:00 a.m. (all times ET/PT), as part of Nickelodeon's Saturday morning block (8AM-Noon), which has been the number-one destination for Kids 2-11 for 12 consecutive years and currently delivers more than three million total viewers each week. The Legend of Korra will air regularly on Saturday at 11:00 a.m.

Source: Nickelodeon Unveils Plans at Annual Upfront for More than 650 New Episodes Across Every Genre (Marketwatch)

I keep meaning to post about shows, and keep failing to do so, because new episodes of things keep airing and I'm always scrambling to catch up. I still have half-written posts about regular tv, but for starters, let's go with the reality shows:

( Amazing Race, season... 20? Really. Okay. )

( Project Runway Allstars )

( Top Chef )

There, reality tv covered! Now let's see if I can manage to say anything about regular tv before I fall yet another week (or month) behind on things...

About a month ago, I finally took the plunge and headed up to a local shelter, after months of waiting for the right moment and then weeks of dithering over the cats on their website. I dragged

therienne along with me for moral support and drivingness (she'd been there a few months ago to get her new kitten), as well as the loan of one of her sleepypods.

She heroically stuck it out with me for about four hours as I wandered from room to room in an ever-deepening spiral of indecision, despite having pretty quickly narrowed my choices down to four sets of under-2-year-old pairs (I wanted a bonded pair to keep each other company).

But in the end, I went for a pair of 8(ish)-month-old brothers. <3 They'd caught my eye when they showed up on the website a few days earlier, and they were just as cute and appealing in person.

The adoption went relatively smoothly; they were swamped so I had to wait a while, then I got an adoption specialist who told me all the things I was supposed to do (almost none of which I intend to do), down to what brand and flavor of food to buy, and how to clean the litter. *eyeroll* But I nodded earnestly along, tried to clarify the slightly confusing medical records (which took a full month to sort out), and signed where she told me, and then a volunteer brought the boys out.

They were totally silent on the way home except for one forlorn meep from one of them about halfway home, and then were still totally silent at home.

therienne and I figured that no one had talked to them when they were small. :( Poor boys. But they were happy to eat a meal, and explore my bedroom, and by that night were already escaping into the rest of the apartment any chance they got. By the next morning, I gave up; ~12 hours' confinement in one room to adapt to being out of a cage/in a new place was going to have to be enough.

I'm terrible at naming cats; my default is LOTR names, but none of the ones available to me really quite work (or I figure the vet staff would never be able to figure them out/spell them). It generally takes me weeks, and this time is no exception. There are still some alternatives that I may fall back on if these turn out not to stick*, but for now...

( Meet Darien, the lanky, flirty, ladies' man: )

( Meet Hobbes, the solid, affectionate, intrepid explorer: )

( Together, They Fight <s>Crime</s> Red Dots! )

♥ ♥ ♥

Hobbes has found his voice, at least a little; he'll let out little cries now and then. Darien is almost entirely silent, although now he'll let himself grunt when he jumps off of something and lands hard. I know he has a voice, though, because he started wailing in the vet's office when they put drops in his ears in case of mites. (Also, for a skinny, wiry, underfed cat, my god he is strong.) (Ahaha I wrote that before I took them back to the vet for followup shots; he outweighs his brother by half a pound now, having gained about 14 ounces while Hobbesie gained... 2. I think he no longer counts as underfed.)

( We had a bit of a health scare the first week... )

But the extended incubation period is finally over, with both boys still active and hungry and therefore safe. \o/ So now it's also safe to post publicly about them.

So far, it's all working out pretty damn well.

♥

* Okay, so maybe Legolas and Gimli are still in the running, a bit; as are Vinnie and Sonny, and Benny and Ray. But all of those have issues; Hobbes is really too cuddly to be a Gimli; Darien is waaaay too sweet to be Sonny; and I would be forever explaining to people in fandom that no, it's for Ray Vecchio, which would get annoying. And I refuse to call him RayV. So. Darien and Hobbes! (And yeah, I know -- but "Bobby" wasn't working, and "Fawkes" wasn't, either, even though Darien has a foxy face and foxy fur, so Fawkesie would be sort of awesomely punny.) back to the rest of the story

(If you're just stopping by to see if anything's been added, you can go straight to the final additions based on suggestions from the comments)

In the unlikely event that people haven't heard about Google's new privacy policy, going into effect on March 1: it will merge any Google accounts you have and link them into one account under one privacy policy. (Er, obviously I can't see them being able to link accounts that don't already have some point of connection between them, like a contact email addy -- but if they can find a link, they'll merge them, as far as I can tell.) ETA from comments: Google may also just be looking at cookies left on your computer, and linking accounts that have no visible connection - they consider it a feature, not a bug. Joy.

ETA more, as we inch into March 1: And a clarification on the merging thing: by that I mean that if you sign up for two products using name@example.com, and pseud@isp.com, Google may well decide those addresses belong to the same person, because it's working off cookies on your computer, and will treat them as one identity. Google will not merge name@gmail.com and pseud@gmail.com into one identity: It's not possible to merge two Google accounts (per Google Help documentation). So the safest way to have multiple identities in Google's eyes is to use Google identities. /ETA

( The new policy and what it means for you )

( How to keep this from affecting you -- much )

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ETA:
More suggestions from the comments; I didn't want to add them to the body of the post at this point, so people don't have to re-read the whole thing. So:

More browser extensions to help with security:

Do Not Track Plus Another extension to stop trackers (Mac or PC; Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE)

HTTPS Everywhere Sends you to secure URLs whenever possible (stable for Firefox, beta for Chrome/Chromium; no other browsers)

Collusion Opens a tab that creates a steadily updated view of who's tracking you across the web as you browse. (Experimental, Firefox only)

Prevent G-chat logging:

From

moonplanet: "If you are chatting on gmail chat, it logs your chat conversations. If you install a chat client like Pidgin and install the OTR plugin ("off the record") on both sides (so you and the person you're chatting with), the chats are logged as unreadable text. Adium (for mac) also has the possibility for OTR."

Fandom feed subscriptions are available on AO3 now!

Sadly, the site is slow as molasses at the moment, probably because everyone is hitting it at the same time trying to get feed subscriptions set up.

I don't know that I'll bother subscribing to bigger fandoms, but man, what a fantastic way to keep up with the small to middling ones -- god knows I never remember to go check every day, or even every week or month, but there are fandoms I'd leap on a new story in. And now I can! \o/

Hah and I got ~~one~~ some in!

ao3_havenfic_feed

ao3_alphas_feed

ao3_peacemakers_feed

ao3_personofinterest_feed

ao3_leverage_feed

This is so awesome.

(WIP notification subscriptions are also available, but that one doesn't affect me. *g*)

(edited to add alphas feed)
(eta2 to add person of interest, leverage, peacemakers) (possibly I should slow down with these...)

If you haven't heard yet, AP is reporting that the feds have shut down Megaupload and arrested its founder and several employees with violating online privacy laws.

This just made my whole day.

For the past couple of years, I've been clearing stuff out, slowly; I'm a packrat by nature, so there's been a lot to do. I've donated somewhere around 2,000 books, hundreds of CDs, bags and bags and bags of clothes, furniture, lamps, electronics... you name it, particularly over the past year.

The one thing I haven't touched is the old computers. I have several, and they've been piling up in corners for over a decade -- partly because it used to be so expensive to buy new computers that I wanted to keep a backup around in case my new computer died, and partly because recycling them was a pain in the ass.

Best Buy has a pretty good recycling program now, though, so a few months ago I asked

therienne to remove the hard drives for me so I could recycle the systems. But the drives didn't want to come out, and we had to be somewhere, so I said screw it, let's finish this later, and that was that. The two half-pulled-apart computers took up residence in my bedroom under a blanket so I didn't cut myself on the metal edges sticking out, and I put them out of my mind till a more convenient pulling-apart day.

( That day was yesterday. )

And now my apartment is that much cleaner than it was. \o/

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