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Ganked from papered.

Post your top fifteen bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favourite.

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My iPod lost track of its music library after I down/upgrade iTunes to 7.5. Fine, I thought. I could copy the files out. I didn't touch my iPod for several months, and I plugged it in again to find all the files gone. I tried recovering the files, and all I get is a collection of 5-second song snippets. I—I DON'T KNOW.

Oh well, time for some site:mediafire.com OR site:rapidshare.com Googling. I've mostly lost OSTs and karaoke tracks for character songs >_>

Also: iPod—STOP EJECTING YOURSELF. Argh.

1. If you haven't seen this yet: Amazon censors its ratings for "adult" content. Playboy and Alan Moore's Lost Girls are not "adult content"; Lady Chatterley's Lover, Maurice, non-explicit YA fiction, books about topics like homophobia and financial planning for gay and lesbian couples are.

ETA: Round-up post.

Apparently the person who started this off may have been a troll, but the evidence points towards ranking censorship not being a glitch (as Amazon claims), as there is a definite pattern to which books were and were not deranked.

Also, someone has started a GLBT books rec post.

2. Something less anger-inducing:

chal: How does one "reek" havoc, anyway? Run it around the block a few dozen times on a hot day and then deny it access to the shower?

caoilainn: Leave it in the trunk of the car until it starts rotting and stinks the whole car up? That havoc - I am always forgetting it.

honorh: Teenage boys can reek havoc liek whoa. Seriously, don't stand downwind.

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From this thread.

snarkhunter:

Contact lenses are unnatural. If God wanted you to be able to see without glasses, he would've given you good vision.

Adam and Eve didn't wear contacts. No one in the Bible wears contacts. It's against some law in Deuteronomy that I can't quote b/c I've never actually read the Bible, but I know what's right and what's wrong, and contacts are WRONG.

The pro-contact agenda is corrupting our youth. They shouldn't be around contact-wearers. Everyone knows they're promiscuous (since boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses, girls who wear contacts are sluts).

Stand up for the rights of non-contact-wearers!

mmanurere:

Vision correction is immoral! Anyone with less-than-perfect vision deserves it, and must have sinned in some way to bring about their affliction.

Download: MF

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silent_paladin, reading someone's Facebook profile: "He likes D minor! D-flat major! It's brown! Brown! Ew! Farm animal brown! What is wrong with him?!?! We would NOT get along—instant deal-breaker. It speaks volumes about him as a person—how boring and mundane and Baroque he must be."

So my Mac just out-and-out crashed for the third time ever; though the first time it's just shut down. I started it up again, and it turns out the problem stems from Apple's time servers all being reset to year 0, i.e. March 1969 at 16:00. Mac OS 10.3 seems to built with the assumption that all dates are after 2001; I got a helpful warning message saying that dates before 2001 might screw up certain applications (security certificates in web browsers, for one).

There's no point in having a precise atomic clock if it isn't accurate, guys.

Rec: Left Unsaid by lillithium, a 56-panel fancomic from Draco's perspective, during the war. It's not DH-compliant, but the art is beautiful (as lillithium's always is), and there is a story. (Depending on how you interpret it, you may need tissues.)

(Note to alorea: blamebrampton wrote something new :p Although I'm not sure if you would be offended that she brought royalty and current events into it.)


I'm sure it says something not so good about me when I'm watching Flight of the Conchords and go, "Hey! That's Greg Proops's voice!" (I always thought he would make a good ad executive.) Speaking of music: thanks to end-of-year lists, I am highly tempted to buy English CDs—the world is ending guys. However, my musical taste is oscillating wildly right now, so I might be able to convince myself not to get some of these.

While surfing the CS departmental website, I found a few interesting tidbits on the home page of instructor Steve Wolfman: parody song lyrics. Several of them are about grad school ("Hello caffeine my old friend / I've come to wire myself again"), though more recent songs address working at UBC. A footnote from "One Day Ahead (of the Students)" states that "'Keener' is a lovely Canadian term referring to the students who are sitting in the front row of your classroom right now doing hand-raising exercises while they wait for class to start."

(This is the same guy that let his class shave a search tree on to his head.)