The last of the MTH pics. These ones are all of David and Kate together.

( 20 images. And yeah...Dial-up Unfriendly... )

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More images from MTH. Still with the single shots...I'll be editing the pics of the two of them together later...

( 16 images - 12 David, 4 Kate. NDUF. )

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Fly by 'Meet the Hewletts' image post...all single shots.

More to come when I have the energy to finish editing them.

( 8 images - 5 David, 3 Kate - NDUF )

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The Bad

I didn't think it was possible but the SGA S5 promos are even fucking uglier than last years. Again with the over-airbrushed, shitty Photoshops...OY!


The Super Funny - as yoinked from seperis. A.K.A. Monday can be of the WIN!

Amazon's customers use Product Reviews and customer tags to mock a company for their attempts at corporate taxation of the uneducated - in trying to sell a CAT5 cable for $500.

There's even mocking in the Marketplace.

Seriously, the level of LULZ here is just amazing. Be prepared to laugh until you're out of breath and it hurts.


ETA: Along come Amazon, the boring bastards, and deleted the whole thing. Tsk tsk! I'd not finished reading that. Grrrr!

If you aren't using Firefox already, Tuesday this week would be a good time to check out what you're missing, since Mozilla are making an attempt on a world record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period.

Not that already having it and doing the upgrade will prohibit you from popping over and downloading it... ;o)

While I post this mainly for the baseball fans among us, I guess anyone could get some LOLZ from this...

Embed broken - have a link instead...

Obviously 'The Captain' never worked on throwing with her during the course of their relationship. Also, what the fuck is she wearing???

_{From Pete Abraham's LoHud Yankees Blog.}

Note: This is not to make any allegations about the company mentioned. It is intended as a fandom shout out and warning.

Aside from arlessiar, forlornhope42 and myself, is there anyone else out there on the f-list who has bought, or knows someone who has bought, tickets from Wolf recently who has also been a victim of credit/debit card fraud?
_{(I know arlessiar has a few other names in her post, and others who replied who knew people who'd had problems since buying tickets for MTH or P4.)}

I ask because there seems to be a growing group of people who have been done over like this whose only connection is having bought Meet the Hewletts or Pegasus Four tickets...

If you did buy tickets, I would urge you to have a check of your card and bank statements for anything out of the ordinary...


EDITS:

May 30th @ 02:26 - I went ahead and sent this email to Wolf. I'll let you know what they come back with.

@ 09:11 - We're up to around 20 people including the extras mentioned in comments.

@ 11:02 - Link to a post on Wolf's boards regarding this issue.

@ 17:34 - Wolfadmin2 deletes the above detailed post and responds with this message.

June 1st @ 18:10 - I'm taking a little break from replying to this. I will get to any new comments made over the course of the next day or so, though it seems a few people are watching this entry and will assist where necessary. I'm hoping there will be a downturn in new reports anyway - for everyone's sake.

Also, there are reports that Wolf have sent out emails to customers advising them to check their card / bank statements. I've not received one yet, however I did get a reply to my email that I send to them:

Hi Beanie,

Thank you for your email.

We have been looking into the situation. Most forms of credit card fraud are ATM & Retail skimming not internet.

We have only had 2 people who have contacted us in the last 2 months about possible card misuse. Based on this we have ordered a review of security and are currently only taking phone bookings. As most fans who attend our events do share may other community sites it could even be possible that some people have downloaded or installed spyware or keyloggers.

Thank you for contacting us and be assured we will continue to do everything to protect our customers.

Regards,

Wolf

With the concept of Keyloggers in mind, malware scanning is recommended for all - virus and spyware. Also, a recommendation from SG-P - anti-keylogger software, such as Key Scrambler Personal.

June 2nd @ 11:40 - The following via email from Wolf:

The Wolf Events website will be down for upgrades at some point in the next 72 hours.

Make of this what you will.

I downloaded these earlier in the week when I thought I might need something to tide me over rather that sit through the torture of the Yankees losing more games. Then they started winning - and these sat on my HDD. So, in lieu of moving my ass and getting out of my pyjamas...there was a mini House marathon.

( So...(spoilers, naturally...) )

Something that has been bugging me - all this talk of the last episode of the season as episode 100.

Rising was actually a single episode, not two episodes. It is listed on IMDB and appears on DVDs as such. Which means the last episode of the season is actually episode 99.

You might not even get to see episode 100 unless Sci-Fi pick SGA up for S6.

Well fuck. I really did not expect that. *

( * That being...(spoiler) )

For those who are interested and because I'm bored...A scan of that review of SGA S4V1...

DVD due for release June 2, 2008.

Large image this a-way...

Feel free to discuss the review amongst yourselves...

For fairly obvious reasons, it would make me happy to see lots of these:



Emerging Sun v-gifts on people's profiles as ElJay is selling them in support of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance throughout May, which happens to be Mental Health Awareness Month. (In the U.S. However, any time is good for MH Awareness in my book...)

I've spread a few around to various people on the f-list, and I encourage everyone who can to do the same.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people have heard about The Open Source Boob Project on their f-lists by now. I have been trying to formulate thoughts about this since last night and I've only just got them in some kind of order.

Honestly, I'm still boggled that there are people who don't see this for what it is - objectification of women. Permission isn't the issue - it's the assumption that a woman is some kind of toy that a man (or another woman) thinks they have the right to play with.

I'm not one of these people who has great objection to people doing whatever they want providing it's consensual, and if women really want to give blanket permission to be groped by wearing a badge, that is their business. However men should be aware that most women are not going to find this behaviour acceptible - in fact they are going to find it fucking offensive. Especially when you detail how some women actually sought your opinion of their bodies based on this action. Because there just isn't enough pressure on women to look how you think they should from the media. As darkrosetiger put it:

"I am not a fucking parking lot ticket.

I do not need your validation."

Getting men to take women seriously is hard enough in the world without them getting ideas from stuff like this. I'm constantly amazed by men thinking that everything in their world will be improved by getting more of women's bodies. As someone who has ample cleavage, I have enough trouble with men thinking my eyes are in my nipples and that my desire to dress nicely means they can put their hands anywhere that pleases them. No it doesn't and no you can't.

Just so you know, my body wasn't issued under the GNU GPL. Keep your fucking hands off. Unless you want me to kick you in the balls.

Before you read on, I should warn you that the content of this post - especially the pictures - is disturbing...

From Gabe Saporta via icedmaple.


In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and starved him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition had watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.

( The horrific imagery because frankly, I think people should see this, and they should be disturbed... )

Does it look like art to you?

But this is not all ... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.

Let's STOP HIM!!!!!

Click on the following link :

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition-sign.html

or just copy it in your browser to sign a petition to stop him from doing it again.

Please do it.

It's free of charge and it will only take one minute to save the life of an innocent creature.

Please also spread this to as many people as you can...

If you want to double check all the above information you can Google the name of the 'artist'...

I did a small f-cut to remove a few people who have not posted in a while - one was a deleted journal anyway.

If you think this is in error - leave a comment.

More pictures from Vancouver. In this batch:

Jason Momoa (10)
Jason and James (1)

( Statement of Obvious - Not. Dial-up. Friendly. )

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Some pictures from Vancouver. In this batch:

James 'BamBam' Bamford (2)
Chuck Campbell (3)
Martin Gero (1)
Kavan Smith (4)

And some pics of the wood carvings from the UBC Museum of Anthropology.

( Statement of Obvious - Not. Dial-up. Friendly... )

When SUP took over LJ at the end of last year, they came up with a 100 Day Plan, which was basically a document telling us all how they were going to improve LJ for its userbase.

Now I'd like to make a suggestion for LJ - The 365 Day Plan - in which LJ will go an entire year without pissing their userbase off and generating a torrent of wank.

Ways they might achieve this:

* Inform the userbase of any changes in the service rather than treating them like idiots. Removing basic accounts was one thing, but patronising your users with reasoning such as wanting to simplify the sign-up process...really, just no.

* Finalise the TOS. Kudos for making more progress with this than 6A ever did in their tenure as owner, but in the next year I, and probably every other LJ user, would like to see this set in stone with defined parameters as to exactly what is and what isn't allowed, and what the appeals process against decisions will be.

* Think more carefully about how popular interests are censored. While I can understand the reasoning behind censoring certain interests, I would like to hear the reasoning PUBLICLY from SUP as to why fan-fiction, bisexuality and depression are on the list of interests with their popular interest count screened from public view. Especially since the last two absolutely reek of discrimination.

_{(Sidebar - the depression one just makes me want to give whoever came up with that a kick in the balls. Possibly followed by a felony assault on their anal region. Because of course LJ exists for shiny-happy postings, not for people to help and support each other...)}


I'm sure there is more. If anyone else has any ideas, please feel free to comment - I don't intend this as an exclusive list...