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If anyone is pissed off enough at the Facebook/Twitter Connect thing that they would like to test the waters at Dreamwidth, I have a bunch of codes. You can also usually find codes for the taking at dw_codesharing. Their journal importer is pretty good - it'll even import the comments on all your posts. (Unfortunately that feature doesn't yet work on communities IIRC.) And you can set up the crossposter to crosspost back to LJ/IJ if you want (to be clear: that's all it does, is let you post copies of your posts to your accounts on other journal sites; a free account gets 1 such crosspost, paid gets 3 - "paid premium", a level that doesn't exist on LJ, probably gets more), and when you edit a DW post it'll automatically edit the remote copies. I've actually been posting everything to my three accounts from DW for some months now - you just can't really tell because I don't have it set up to put an identifying footer on the remote posts.

BTW, my own policy on this: I don't have a Twitter account. I have a Facebook account, but I don't actually make use of the thing. I will never crosspost any of my posts or comments to either site. And please for $DEITY's sake I hope you will not post any comments you may make in my journal or on anything I've posted in a community there either.

Big Green Boxes

http://www.ethicurean.com/2010/09/01/big-green-boxe/

Too cool.

What is Big Green Boxes, exactly?

It's a new business that will transform unused warehouse space into year-round indoor growing centers. We'll use hydroponics and aquaponics, along with advanced low-energy lighting techniques and vertical growing methods, to produce the very freshest leafy greens for local consumption regardless of climate. ( Read more... )

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My husband did a little interesting historical digging here. Apparently the last time a news post got up to 5000+ comments of RAGE was when LJ decided to abolish the Basic Account level - almost two and a half years ago.

6237 and counting...

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arethinn: These captchas are stupid! Look, what is that? [points to a character looking rather handwritten and resembling Futhark "fehu"] I don't have runes on my keyboard! I can't type that!

enotsola: Why not?

arethinn: I don't have a rune font installed.

enotsola: Yes you do! You lie like a rug!

arethinn: No I don't. I don't have an Elder Futhark font. And Tengwar aren't runes.

enotsola: *gives me the "you're such a nerd" look*

arethinn: Damn it! Why am I having this argument? Why did I rise to your bait?

enotsola: It's only fair. [bawdy implications of "rise" were clearly intended here]

arethinn: Why, because you often rise to my ... my what?

enotsola: (tentatively) Your... man-bait?

arethinn: My what now?

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Latest:

Update: Thank you for taking the time to offer your honest feedback. We understand and appreciate your desire for privacy. We share your concerns. Most of us would not want to publish our LiveJournal usernames or FO comments to Facebook or Twitter either (to the extent we even use them). Please give us a little time to address your concerns. We are listening, and we'll do our best to respond.

First sarcastic response: Uh huh. Listening. Like so many other times. (There's a reason I let one of my LJ accounts expire in May and will let the other do so in November.)

Second disbelieving response: So why did you even spend the time developing and implementing a feature which had this OBVIOUS consequence???