DEC Answers Leap Year Complaint Best bug-report response _ever_ (tags: computing computers time science history funny ) Online Activation: The Noose Tightens An EA rep explains...to users that if they get banned from the forums, their game account will be banned as well. Which will lock them out of all of their games which require activation. (tags: gaming drm )

penknife : Are there "fannish trope goggles"? - I usually enjoy Salon's Broadsheet column, but I felt like their writers really missed the boat in this post dissecting Beyonce's new video for her song "If I Were a Boy." - (tags: gender genderswitch culture trope )

tishaturk : vids and the technical definition of narrative - I'm interested in vids as narratives, and in this post I'm going to try to talk about what that means, because the word...academics and the Fens: all you get are Tabs - Insofar as fandom exists, it is the creation of, if not academics, at least the intellectually inclined. - (tags: fandom acafen history )

karadin : Twenty Ways To Keep Fandom Fun - 1. Remember we were all newbies once, have some tolerance, gain more friends. - (tags: fandom ) cereta : Because I'm just pissed...I live with them. But don't turn around and tell me that I'm ruining fandom for you with the discussions I want to have. You have all the same choices I do. - (tags: aca spn fanac )

Body Worlds exhibition back in London The attached photos are beautiful. (tags: bodyart humans bodies art ) Donâ™t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement Nice little essay in rebuttal...chargers being left on, a quick check shows that the amount of energy is completely negligible when compared to, well, anything else you might be using power for (tags: electricity ecology )

celli : talk to me about pacing & plotting, people - [...] I think from some idea that if I say it instead of write it, I'll lose my motivation and the story will run away from me...the general attitude of "it's all good" that I see in the HP fandom has spoiled me for participation in some of the other fandoms. - (tags: wngwjleo trope culture fandom )

cschick : Following on those acafan discussions . . . - I think that authors should be mature enough to recognize that reader-to-reader discussion isn't generally something they need...and reading process. And that it's something that attempting to control can only bring them grief and may do harm to the fannish community itself. - (tags: criticism fanfic reading )

Not the death of capitalism, but the birth of a new order Why the rise of Marx is overrated - but changes are still afoot. (tags: capitalism socialism society economics ) Drug can...Still to agree exact route, but you never know... (tags: transport future ) Spice bus up for auction Anyone got £3,500? (tags: music movies spice_girls )

swatkat24 : shiny ivory towers - I find fandom's anti-academic bias absurd. Furthermore, I find the anti-aca/fen debates that make the rounds in fandom every now and then worrisome, and...is made up when otherwise the story would just seem to be really happening? Because I have the opposite reaction. To me, analysis makes the story come to life even more. - (tags: fanac reading )

Capt. Stanley's unlicensed, DIY shark dives in Honduras I'm damned if I'd get in his submarine, but they make for a damn good story. (tags: sharks diving submarines craziness ) ...other soft bedding material. Keep in mind that your writer may not write right away. Never shout at your writer. If your writer is frightened, he or she may run. (tags: writing satire )