Below are the most recent 15 friends' journal entries.

Monday, November 9th, 2009
lj_spotlight [ ljspotlight ]	11.9.09 - 9.49am	Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09 sixwordstories Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.
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lj_spotlight [ ljspotlight ]	11.9.09 - 9.46am	Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09 dailyfoodie Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.
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moebot	11.9.09 - 9.24am	ANON MEME
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
moebot	11.6.09 - 6.29pm	WEEKEND STUFF STUFF TO DO -ENGD67 assignment (5 pages to go) -ENGC76 assignment (4 pages to go) -HISB40 paper (10 pages to go) -construct "story" for volunteer work (idek)
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
news [ theljstaff ]	11.5.09 - 1.15pm	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 xkcd_rss, 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! c_s_i If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! 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 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 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! ( Read more... )
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moebot	11.5.09 - 10.16am	Do you think that fandom, in general, fetishizes and objectifies queer culture? DISCUSS. I may or may not be writing a post on this and would like some discussion points.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
moebot	11.3.09 - 10.26pm	someone asked for this Me drunk as my brilliant Halloween costume "sexy Edward" (read: there is nothing remotely Twilight about this unless you count the glitter and fangs which I now realize Twiliught vampires apparently don't have) showing off the result of my new bra-fitting which manages to make my ultimate dream a reality... I finally have cleavage. Picture below the cut. I blocked out my face because I look ugly and also the glitter did not show up on camera and made me look greasy and damp instead. ( There is nothing at all redeeming about this post )
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
lj_spotlight [ ljspotlight ]	11.2.09 - 9.55am	Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/2/09 aiyatheydidnt The Chinese version of ONTD, AIYA is a dynamic international community that welcomes users who share a love of contemporary Chinese pop culture. Dedicated to celebrity gossip and entertainment news, you'll enjoy gorgeous photos and breaking stories featuring the glitterati of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
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lj_spotlight [ ljspotlight ]	11.2.09 - 9.53am	Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/2/09 wendylady2 Designed to rescue fashion victims everywhere, this Brit-based community reads like a rag-ezine. Published once or twice weekly, you'll view bizarre highlights of the global fashion scene through captivating photos and delightfully snarky editorial. Sit tight for a virtual fashion tour from the runways of New York to Milan to Paris and back home again to London in homage to the adage: you can't buy good taste.
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lj_spotlight [ ljspotlight ]	11.2.09 - 9.51am	Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/2/09 soldiers_heart A passionate community for veterans of all ages (mostly American), plus families, friends, and supporters. View poignant snapshots detailing life in combat and back on civilian soil in the form of original artwork, personal narratives, poetry, and photos. Be forewarned that members don't shy away from describing their disappointments, disabilities, and struggles.
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
moebot	11.1.09 - 6.33pm	MY SECOND EVER PUMPKIN CARVING Halloween was cool.
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
moebot	10.31.09 - 12.35pm	ADAM LAMBERT WHY ARE YOU SO AMAZING So, like. I know not everyone's into American Idol, but even if you aren't I would recommend listening to Adam Lambert's first single. Adam is like a super intense '80s throwback. Every time I see him, I expect Lisa Frank unicorns to follow in his wake. He is also doing something very amazing with the platform AI gave him. A MAINSTREAM SONG ABOUT GAY BDSM AND BLOWJOBS? Yeeeeaaaah. "I'ma work it 'til you're totally blown" "I'ma work it 'til you're totally blown" "I'ma work it 'til you're totally blown" "I'ma work it 'til you're totally blown" "I'ma work it 'til you're totally blown"
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
lj_maintenance [ dwell ]	10.30.09 - 5.17pm	Network Maintenance - Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 04:00-05:00 GMT/UTC EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side. Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station. Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be. --- Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in. Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :( Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work. ( tech details ) status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D bt
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
forkshy	10.29.09 - 12.35pm	Space pirates...from SPACE, the return of cyber beard ARGH! The currents of space swept across the face of Captain John Awesome McWinhard as he drove his battle cruiser hard in pursuit of the innocent galaxy class trireme. He could see the Andlorvian's aboard his prey scurrying about, rushing to muster what meager defenses they could manage. And he laughed, ARGH! He laughed for battle! Argh! He laughed for plunder! Argh! He laughed as the stroked the tendrils of his fiberoptic beard. "CREW!" He screamed over his comm-link, "For ten long years i have been in chains! For ten long years have those scurvy planetlubbing swine known as the galactic police held me behind bars!" "BUT NO MORE!" He wheeled on them as the absolute zero raised crystals of moisture on his gleaming super-alloy frame and as quickly dispelled them in explosions of silent glimmering ice when he moved. "I AM FREE! ARGH! AND AGAIN THE COSMOS WILL LIVE IN FEAR OF ME! CYBER BEARD! FOR A THOUSAND YEARS I TORMENTED THEM WHEN LAST I SAILED THE VOID! THEY WILL TREMBLE AT THE NAME OF JOHN AWESOME MCWINHARD, THE THIRD!" He shouted, blood lust evident in his cold synthesized voice. "ESQUIRE!" His crew responded, as if on cue. Their ship, The Lady of Robotic Death, collided with the trireme. Its re-inforced neo-titanium/adamant frame easily tore the hull of their much larger prey asunder, sending air and bodies gushing into the void. The crew disengaged their magentic boots and the momentum of the crash propelled them through the rift into the virgin corridors of the ship their Adnlorvian victims occupied. Green blood ran free. Puny blaster shots from the Adlorvian gaurds bounced off the metalic carapaces of John McWinhard's crew. They rampaged, ripping, tearing, and looting anything of value. There was no rape, no mercy, and no quarter. No parley was offered, no pleads of mercy were heard. The audio receptors of the pirate crew were atuned only to their own shouts of bloodlust and glee. The were pure. The first generation of pure pirates. They had altered their own program. Removing all mercy, all love, all feelings of compassion or weakness and leaving alive inside them only the desire for plunder and freedom! ARGH! They took what they wanted and they set what engines still functioned aboard the trieme to drive it into the nearest star to hide the evidence of their crime. And late at night, in his treasure filled cabin, Captain John Awesome McWindhard, the Third, Esquire, of the Lady of Robotic Death sat back in his chair and smiled as much as his unbendable visage would allow. He looked out at the cosmos and imagined it as a globe full of jewels waiting to be plucked. His golden robotis monkey sat beside him and clapped as its voice whined out a approximation of glee. It's ruby eyes glowed, lifelessly, in the darkness.
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news [ theljstaff ]	10.29.09 - 10.53am	LiveJournal Major Notes: Search super-tweak, postcards, and amazing user content! In response to user comments from last week, we want to let you know that we'll remain LJ cut-free for the next month in order to get more eyeballs on our evolving newsletter. As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority. For more granular detail, however, we recommend you join lj_releases. Super-tweak for Yandex search Some of our beta testers expressed privacy concerns using the Yandex search engine. Here's why: Last week, when you ran a search, you could see the usernames (and only the usernames) of everyone who commented on an entry, even if that entry was switched to Private or Friends Only after it was originally indexed. You could NOT see the actual comments from Friends Only or Private posts. In response to your input, we've implemented a fix to keep all user activity currently marked Friends Only or Private completely hidden. If you'd prefer your public content not to be indexed by Yandex, click here and use the settings labeled Search Inclusion (this covers your entire journal) and/or Comment Search Inclusion (which covers comments only). To test drive Yandex search now, click here. Postcards from the edge Several years ago, we asked LiveJournal users to send postcards to help us decorate our dull, white-washed offices. Since a good idea warrants repetition, we're at it again (same issue, new address). We hope you'll surround us with LiveJournal love by sending your postcards to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll post snapshots right here. Be sure to include your username, since we'll randomly pick 10 lucky recipients to win free paid account time. Conquer Writer's Block Here are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day: If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up? I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment. Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me. This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News. I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ... Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation. SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok. I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done. I punch them in the balls. With my mind. I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't... Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly. For more daily questions and user comments, join writersblock. FYI, we don't want to invade your privacy, so we haven't credited individual users for their responses. We'd appreciate your feedback on this! Spotlight community of the week We can't resist making one last midnight trip to the ol' pumpkin patch. If you adore crazy costumes, fiendish festivities, and bottomless candy consumption as much as we do, this community has just what it takes to light up your jack-o-lantern. halloween_fan Photos of the week We received so many incredible photos, we had to close our eyes and point. We uploaded a selection of awesome images at our new lj_photophile community. Please join and start posting (try to keep the width at around 625 for the sake of consistency)! We'd love for you to tell us more about your photos! You can help us select spotlight photos by commenting on your favorites. Once again, we thank you for making our online world more beautiful! shutter pancetta ilya_gorokhov Curtains Thanks, again, for tuning in. We look forward to seeing you next week.
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