LJ and Random shiny...
In regards to the latest LJ debacle (best explained here), 
blamebrampton's post and furiosity's comment on the news post sum up my thoughts pretty nicely.
Though since its possible to track visitors with lj stats and friending is never private, I guess the only thing left was being able to know who said what where and maximizing cross-posting potential to include comments as well (which would be aimed primarily at social network users?).
Still, LJ as usual manages to implement new policies without really considering its userbase >_>
Anyway, since the flist is currently flooded with DNW posts thanks to the latest bout of LJ induced rage, its probably as good a time as any to post some links to random shiny stuff on the web that caught my eye over the summer:
General Shiny...
Software...
Useful Someday...
blamebrampton's post and furiosity's comment on the news post sum up my thoughts pretty nicely. Though since its possible to track visitors with lj stats and friending is never private, I guess the only thing left was being able to know who said what where and maximizing cross-posting potential to include comments as well (which would be aimed primarily at social network users?).
Still, LJ as usual manages to implement new policies without really considering its userbase >_>
Anyway, since the flist is currently flooded with DNW posts thanks to the latest bout of LJ induced rage, its probably as good a time as any to post some links to random shiny stuff on the web that caught my eye over the summer:
General Shiny...
- Dante's Internet: Where will you be? - I think we all have our own special place XD Some of us might even be able to book time share locations on the upper rings every few millenia mwhahaha
- A friendly picto-guide to the perennial question: Can We Date?
- The new Sharpie liquid PENCIL <3
- How Not To Be An Asshole On the Internet: A Guide For Professional Writers (and other people)
- Snake Oil: infographic showing which supplements are more likely to actually be useful
- If you can't download Calibre, you can convert books online using 2Epub.com (formats include epub, lit, lrf and mobi - the latter of which works for Kindle users)
- Budgeting: A Visual Guide to How Small Cutbacks Lead to Great Savings
- Organize Your Life with Spring Pad - I like this particularly for the way To Do lists are implemented and the way we can save recipes, books etc
- What Fantasy Series is Underrated? - seems promising for hidden gems :D
- My favorite gay!poster this year is an ad for Virgin Mobile which I spied at the bus stop while grocery shopping. elisa_rolle also has a gay commercial tag that is totally made of win (and slashy goodness) and a tag for man candy too.
- Yes, I'm one of those adults that read YA novels
- I found this older article on used books and ebooks pretty interesting, particularly the latter half focussing on author exposure and ebook downloads.
- Ebooks top hardcovers at amazon \o/
Software...
- A great little firefox extensions post by _jems_
- If the iPad is out of your price range or doesn't fit your needs, check out these alternatives
- Lifehacker pointed out imagegrab for screencaps and ted notepad for text editing
- Comic book readers to try someday: comicrack and comical
- Easy renaming of video files: TVRename and The Renamer
- Essential Android apps
Useful Someday...
- Cottonstrips for watering plants - when on vacation!
- Low effort cooking - omg, the rice cooker is a miracle tool *_*
- A good guide to help with moving to a new home
- Online learning resources are getting better
Your posts as always are super shiny :3
also, that can we date picto-guide? hahaha. i love when you share links.
Lol, I spent quite sometime following all the arrows - the designer is a genius! And thanks <3 <3 I figured peeps could do with a bit of a distraction from the flist wank (since LJ never responds fast to these situations and usually lets it just...fester)
That chart was so great! I followed all the arrows too XD HI ROBERT PATTISON!
The snake oil chart is great too. I love it when people make graphs pretty <3 and it's useful to know! Vitamin C + Vitamin D + Ginseng are my daily cold-prevention remedies, so I feel pretty good about staying in the green spectrum of the chart *lol* It's always nice to know what you're taking isn't totally useless.
So many more links I haven't even waded through yet! But so great. I'm basically checking out all of them *lol* I like reading all the software app stuff, even though I'm just barely getting onto delicious (FINALLY) and still don't have a smartphone *lol* It's good to know...what I'm missing? XD
The ricecooker IS a miracle tool *_*
A friend of mine was wondering why a picture of a bone and a screw were there and I couldn't help laughing XD
Have been interested in buying a supplement or two lately and that's probably going to help me narrow it down :D
Sometimes tech news sucks when its on the latest gadget that you can never afford but I love the little software finds that make life easier :)
Is it sad that I used to have two rice cookers in Texas but since coming to Vancouver I haven't figured out the proportion of rice to water (no cup) for the house rice cooker and so have yet to use it even once! Probably need to go buy my own and then experiment with that guide...
Glad you liked the post! *g*