What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

I liked it so much better! At least the ending. Sherlock and Watson were both smarter, Sherlock had more respect for Watson, was more openly emotional and bonding with him .... I think they changed it in order to prolong the episode, but it suffered as a result.

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David Luban at Balkanization writes ... No, no. It's too good. Read it yourself.

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Or something:

BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The company says a ban would also imperil the ambitious Gulf Coast restoration efforts that officials want the company to voluntarily support.

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via cofax7, here is a detailed post describing the various scenarios in which there is pingbacking. As I understand it, there is no pingback when you post under FLock and link to someone, but there may be a pingback if you change the setting from public to FLock.

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I was rewatching the wonderful vid that talitha78 made for me for festivids, Sleepwalker, and it occurred to me that Jim Profit comes pretty close to being canonically asexual. Which is rare and I know people on my FList are interested in that sort of thing, so, there you go.

I had occasion to rewatch the 1987 movie, Suspect, which is really not much as far as mysteries go but is enjoyable nonetheless just for the excellent casting. Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson before anyone knew who he was, Joe Montegna, John Mahoney, and the somewhat inevitable Philip Bosco. Also, it's worth watching for the clothes - Cher's outfits are gorgeous (if far too chic for the public defender she's playing). But what really amused me was that certain key aspects of the plot revolve around attorneys who visit the law library to look up cases - which made me laugh and laugh, to imagine attorneys actually going to a library and reading the physical federal reporters instead of just accessing everything on the internet. Until I realized, yeah, in 1987, they pretty much had to.

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rivkat reports (and one of her commenters confirms) that LJ's reinstated pingback feature will pingback if someone links to your entry in a FLocked post - and will include the relevant text of the post in the pingback.

Which means that if you link to someone else's entry in a locked post, they may be alerted to that fact, see a large chunk of the text of your locked post, and, if they so choose, allow the pingback to be visible as a comment to anyone who visits the post you linked.

I also know that if you have an old post where you linked to something when the pingback feature wasn't operating, and you go and edit that old post, a new pingback will be sent. Which, once again, potentially exposes your older post - if it was locked - to public dissemination.

Just a warning.

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I actually don't understand exactly what they did, but I also don't use either Facebook or Twitter, so if anyone was concerned that I'd do ... something ... that would result in a crosspost of some kind, no worries.

I'm sure anyone who wants one of these has access already, but just in case, have some Dreamwidth invite codes:

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C3SMH3YMD2QA9AAAKNAT

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image by tripoli8; click on the picture to see her post of the larger version.

This vid was created for destina for the Sweet Charity auction.

Song: Blaze of Glory by Jon Bon Jovi
Fandom: Supernatural

Summary: Number one with a bullet.

Spoilers: Through "Swan Song"

Sizes: 54 MB (540 x 360 .divx), 22 MB (420 x 280 .wmv)
Length: 4:37

Download from Sendspace: The .divx file is here and the .wmv file is here.

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( Lyrics under the cut )

Website: Monsters from the Vids

Thanks so much to destina for bidding on me and giving me such a fun assignment, and to my patient betas, danegen, halcyon_shift, and rivkat.

Thank you also to tripoli8 for the graphic she made for this vid as one of her Sweet Charity goodies. Please take a moment to tell her how gorgeous it is!

Comments appreciated.

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rivkat posted her first J2, and it's glorious, especially if you have my particular kinks. It's your typical meet-cute screwball comedy mistaken-identity thing, where Jared thinks that Jensen's a hooker.

You totally know the screwball comedies would have gone there if not for the Hays Code.

Also, ninhursag has written this wonderfully tantalizing always-a-girl-Holmes/always-a-girl-Watson snippet, and I'm really hoping she writes more.

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Katie Forsythe has a new story up, Birds to a Lighthouse. (It's in seven parts -that link is to Part I - they're not internally linked, you have to just look at her journal). It takes place sometime after Hallowed Be Thy Name (i.e., the story that most resembles the direct stimulation of the serotonin receptors in my brain), and it's really incredible.

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But! I am now able to catch up on all the fanworks I missed, and I can wholeheartedly rec the story that I'm sure everyone in the fandom has already read, candle_beck's Space Travel. Her choice of words, her characterizations, are just things of beauty.

Also, a vid! Just posted, Poison Prince, by theanonsisters. It's Holmes/Watson, but really more Holmes character study.

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An Emmy for Rebuilding a Galaxy

Hundreds of Internet users remade “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film last year, 15 seconds at a time. This month they all played a part in Emmy history.

The finished product, “Star Wars Uncut,” won an Emmy last week in a relatively new category, interactive media, heaping new attention onto a project that its producers call a “user-directed broadcast.”

The award is all the more remarkable because, in a world in which television heavyweights like HBO and NBC mount big-budget campaigns to win Emmys, “Star Wars Uncut” is just a hobby for its creator, Casey Pugh, a 26-year-old Web developer who lives in Brooklyn.

The makers of “Star Wars Uncut” were encouraged by a Television Academy member and past winner, Richard Cardran, to submit their project for an award. The annual awards recognize television production, but in the age of online video streaming they also acknowledge the ways that shows can connect with fans online.

“Fans want to be involved in shows,” said Geoff Katz, a co-governor of the Emmys’ Interactive Media Peer Group, which oversees the category, officially called “outstanding creative achievement in interactive media.”

In previous years winning Web sites have effectively been marketing vehicles for television shows like “Lost” and “Heroes.” But “Star Wars Uncut” is more — it is completely independent, a work of art by film aficionados around the world. Mr. Katz called it a “major milestone” for the Emmys.

I didn't even know there was an interactive media Emmy award - and that's awesome that it's gone to an entirely independent project.

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I'm having trouble creating an .avi file using VirtualDub. Whenever I go use the resize filter to make it 540 x 360, the image comes out like this:

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Things I Learned My Freshman Year of College.

And it's cute and sweet and entertaining but I guess I must be getting old because I keep wanting to enroll all the characters in Alcoholics Anonymous.

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You realize that what really works for a particular section is exactly the set of clips that appeared on the show, exactly in the order they appeared, with almost no editing at all. I mean, maybe a slight trim for timing, but otherwise they're good as is.

I always feel like I'm cheating if I do something like that. Especially if it's not an action sequence, where that's sort of to be expected, but if it's just, you know, ordinary shots. But if it works, it works.

Also, it really takes vidding Supernatural to understand just how often it's raining during the outdoor scenes.

Also, am I the last person to realize that in the Pilot, John Winchester is wearing a Marine Corps T-shirt?

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yhlee has just put up this year's introductory post (also here on Dreamwidth) with basic information about the schedule. Short version: Nominations of fandoms begins September 17, signups begin October 6. So please consider joining!

Also a reminder - even if you don't formally sign up to participate, you may still do fun things like make treats or fill pinch hit requests, so if even if you can't commit to participating in Festivids, you should still watch the community to see if you want to just, you know, randomly make a vid for someone.

Whee!

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is that the prompts really illustrate the two basic flavors of hooker!kink. There is the emo!hooker-kink - my kink - which is basically about using the hooker scenario as a basis for operatic emo!porn. Then there is the sex!hooker-kink, which uses the scenario as a platform for acrobatic sexy funtimes, described in detail.

It's sort of like the Beatles versus the Stones. With hookers.

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The SPN/J2 sex industry fic meme. It's got lots of prompts so far and one fill - an adorable and adorably hot Jensen-as-phone-sex-worker, Jared-as-suffering-roommate ficlet by longsufferingly.

Moar fills, please??

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Wooden roller coasters are way scarier than metal ones.

I mean, for all the fancy schmancy loops and spirals and suspending you in mid-air, if you want true, gut-wrenching, I-might-actually-die-today fear, there is nothing like an 18-story drop straight down, actually rising slightly out of the car, held in place by nothing but a bar across your lap, physics, and that pathetic seatbelt they insist you wear.

(A seatbelt? Seriously? I'm going 70-ish miles an hour vertically downward with a metal bar holding me in place - I refuse to believe that a loose-fitting seatbelt across my lap is doing any work whatsoever)

ETA: Also, I am amused to learn that the earliest roller coasters weren't even roller coasters. They were just trains that had been built for other purposes, like for transporting coal in a mine, and people were like, "Hey, can I ride on that?"

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From a day of roller coasters!

There is much I could say about roller coasters, but I will limit myself to observing that the upside to going to ride roller coasters in the pouring rain is that the lines are minimal, and once you resign yourself to the idea that you will be wet, you're not even that uncomfortable.

The downside is that riding some coasters in the rain is really the equivalent of riding a flume - with stinging needles in your face. The rain is weaponized when you're moving that fast - which is why I heard one person remark, "I didn't realize this was a water ride."

Also, I ate funnel cake. And four different kinds of fudge.

I have also used enough questionable public bathrooms to last me another 20 years, thanks.

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