Adds a “Latest Chapter” button to the top of each chapter. Suggestions welcome.

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Originally posted at Dreamwidth.

A post about my travels is forthcoming, but first:

When the night is new by apolesen

I cannot say enough about this fic. It’s Cameron/Clegg, which is quite strange, but I can ignore everything for the fact it is a Proper Bletchley Park AU. All of the musty atmosphere of people scribbling away at jumbles of letters, punching intercepted transmissions into clunky room-sized mechanical computers, in the dreary English countryside. As far as I can tell the cryptographic details are all correct—absolutely wonderful, as there’s nothing that gets in the way of a good story like a genius unable to do the elementary task of cracking a Caesar cipher (a Sherlock fic, once). The technical details don’t detract from the story, however; the story is beautifully told, words wrapped in emotional insecurity and resigned tension.

Read this story.

Originally posted at Dreamwidth.

Featuring:

• Seto Koji - Kikumaru (3rd) in Tenimyu
• Araki Hirofumi - SPAZ. INUI. (a.k.a. Tenimyu 2nd cast.) Evil guy in Gekiranger, Yoshida in Shinsengumi Peacemaker. Also, wow, can't believe he's 27 now.
• Nakamura Yuuichi - Yuuto in Kamen Rider Den-o...and oh god he was in Princess Princess D as a rival Princess
• Igarashi Shunji - Noe in HanaKimi

STOP TRYING TO BE COOL, GUYS. YOU CAN'T DO IT.

On that note - wtf Shirota Yuu is on the Japanese version of Howie D's album? SHIROTA YUU IS THE LAST PERSON I CAN TAKE SERIOUSLY, OK.

09 · Slide (Prince of Tennis doujinshi) by Hojo Akira
02 · Hetalia fanart

plus:
01 · Hetalia wallpaper
01 · Clock Zero wallpaper



Clock Zero—just, what.

( end of eternity )

Please credit.

Massive LJ security breach: people seeing/editing other users' locked/private posts

I should probably migrate all my things to Dreamwidth and do a purge.

I also have an abundance of Dreamwidth invite codes for those interested.

In my last post, quoted from Maciej Cegłowski of Pinboard fame:



In this post, quoted from Eric Meyer, CSS expert nonpareil:

Searching For Mark Pilgrim

Just yesterday, I took a screenshot of the title page of Dive Into HTML5 to include in a presentation as a highly recommended resource. Now it’s gone. That site, along with all the other “Dive Into…” sites (Accessibility, Python, Greasemonkey, etc.) and addictionis.org, is returning an HTTP “410 Gone” message. Mark’s Github, Google+, Reddit, and Twitter accounts have all been deleted. And attempts to email him have been bounced back.

This is very reminiscent of Why the Lucky Stiff’s infosuicide, and it’s honestly shocking.

Followed up with:

Mark Pilgrim is alive/annoyed we called the police. Please stand down and give the man privacy and space, and thanks everyone for caring.

There really is no difference.

Pinboard has traditionally been the bastion of web tech and Daring Fireball–types, but now as fandom's moving to Pinboard:

Popular Tags (as of 2011/09/29)

I LIKE EVERYTHING ON THIS.

Also of note:

joeld: Somehow @Pinboard's popular page got taken over by gay fan fiction. I rather miss the web/entrepreneurial stuff predominating.
Pinboard: @joeld same amount of wank, just in a different format

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Anyway, for those of you thinking of migrating to Pinboard: it's slightly under $10 to get an account (flat fee), which will rise along with the # of users. You can also pay extra annually to get automatic backups of everything you save (pretty neat). Pinboard still isn't quite fleshed out yet despite being a couple years old, but it looks like Maciej will get stuff like tag bundles and group privacy like LJ up in a reasonable amount of time.

If you're still using Delicious, here's a userstyle to make the new layout more tolerable.

Avex, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE????

( video under cut )

This atrocity featuring:

• vocalist Kamakiri Kenta, who was in Tenimyu and the thing known as Princess Princess D already, so, uh
• guitarist Suzuki Shougo, who was in Shinkenger
• bassist Hosogai Kei, ... also from Tenimyu, but not at the same time as the other guy
• drummer Yonehara Kousuke, from RUN&GUN and therefore in the Air Gear musical with guy #1
• keyboardist Ide Takuya, who was in a boyband called SHIPS—this stuff writes itself seriously

Going back to my Yazima kthxbai.

In the meantime I am getting damn good at editing out manga text in Photoshop.

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I don't know how I didn't start using Add Noise until recently. So useful for making inserted bits fit in.

For those of you that missed it, Peter Thiel (the co-founder of Paypal and one of the first investors in Facebook) believes that we're in a "higher education bubble" and that geniuses should spend their time pursuing their goals rather than a degree. To that effect, his foundation created a new fellowship called "20 Under 20", where he would give 20 people/teams under 20 $100k to help bring their ideas to fruition. The inaugural list of recipients was recently announced. What's the first thing I noticed about this list?

24 people.

2 females.

Now these are the people Peter Thiel et al have cherry-picked to be the future entrepreneurial leaders of our world. And what will they look like? They'll be 8% female.

(Of course you have to account for self-selection and such, but a risk-taking personality is something that is rewarded in the business world, and nothing's quite as risk-taking as quitting school to try to change the world. And that's exactly what many these recipients want to do.)