- synecdochic: LiveJournal's DDoS and Russian Politics
This is an excellent round up of the problems that have plagued LJ of late, which are, in turn an interesting insight into the implications of running something that truly is a global service. The short version: if you are an English language user who is tempted to complain about LJ's recent down time, you should probably shut the fuck up before you embarrass the rest of us. And if you are an English language user who isn't actually *paying* for the service, and you're tempted to complain, please make do so a long, long way away from me, because I'd hate to have to beat you with something heavy.
Tag: russia
Bookmarks for September 28, 2009
- Mitch Horowitz: What is the occult? – Boing Boing
Interesting definition supplied. I like the term "occult" because it's admirably woobly-woo resistant, when correctly understood (something far too many "practicioners" fail to do). As I'm sure most of you know, it means "hidden". And what is hidden may be revealed with science when we work it out. It's a lot better than "supernatural", which is a term I don't like – there is no supernatural, merely the natural that science has not fully explained yet.
- Chord by Conrad Shawcross
Must remember to book tickets to see this.
- re:vision recycled camera lens bracelets – Oye Modern. Unique, funky, limited edition jewellery.
Beautiful, and I kinda want one, but much, much too pricey to be worth it.
- MediaPost Publications Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account
This sort of combination of abuse of power and utter moronic stupidity by the courts and major institutions makes me incandescent. There are far worse things that happen in the world every day, and I know it, but this sort of thing is a particular hot-button for me, because it's so self-evidently unjust and unreasonable that I cannot fathom how any sane person could conceive of it as a decent or sensible thing to do.
- Dyatlov Pass incident – Wikipedia
Well, this is crying out to be recycled into some nasty bit of horror/mystery fiction or something.
Bookmarks for March 7, 2009
- abandonedplaces: Ukraine, Pripyat. 2009
As some of my friends know, I am 100% fascinated by the abandoned city of Pripyat, and these photos are just stunning.
Bookmarks for January 8, 2009
- Abandoned London – a set on Flickr
I am so tempted to skip out on family Christmas next year, and produce a set something like this. OK, there's not a chance I would, but still, the set pretty damn impressive anyway.
- English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses (via Warren Ellis)
Like everyone else, I'd never heard of these before. And like all right-thinking people, I do think the entire notion is fascinating. Mouldering hulks of poisonous stone that no longer light up the night. Perfect fodder for a maritime ghost story.
- Photojojo » Sensor Dust Is Evil. Here’s How to Banish It.
Good round up of various cleaning options to remove sensor dust. My old D70s body is a martyr to it, and the D80 is bound to pick up some at some point.
- British Weather Terms
Some interesting old terms in here I hadn;'t run across before that might be useful in the future.
Bookmarks for July 22, 2008
- Party laser blinds ravers
On the one hand: poor bastards. On t’other, oh my god, the jokes…
Bookmarks for June 25, 2008
- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now… - YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.
- TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.
- firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!