… dear sweet jebus gog I want a Homestuck MMO.
No, seriously. Someone needs to be getting on that shiznit and MAKIN IT HAPPEN right now.
Man ifttt is dangerous.
My blog now happily imports replies I make to comments at Tumblr.
… There’s no way this could go wrong. None.
Nearly 4pm, still in pyjamas.
We’re supposed to be going away on holidays tomorrow. There are like a million things I need to clean up and do before we go but goddamn I feel like trash.
Being sick sucks.
Link: Research - DISQUS.
Disqus does an infographic on pseudonymous comments.
I’ve seen this get attacked a fair bit around the tracks. The petty digs aside (it’s a huge JPG! /faints), it’s pretty telling that all the narky comments seem to come from people who:
- use their Really Real Names Online
- work in tech or related fields where having a Hip Internet Persona is a Career Plus
- are dudebro cis white men, and best of all
- have comments turned off on their blogs.
… Yuh-huh.
My S3 bill is 1c this month?
Because apparently Reduced Redundancy Storage costs more at low-capacities than “normal” storage. Go figure.
Y U SO EXPENSIVE, AWS?
Sketchbook!
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Twi’lek Jedi Consular, a la SWtOR. Fairly rough (and...
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Lol. Unnecessarily ripped Anders. WTF. Wanted to paint something...
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A very rough series of the layers in Anders’ Rabbit Heart...
Found objects.
Meanwhile, on the internet...
Link: Is This The Real Reason Why MegaUpload Was Shut Down? - Forbes.
Tinfoil hats, but still… ∞
Link: elle, phd: This Story Is Too Bootylicious for Me.
… no, seriously. Someone did what? ∞
Link: This post on Google+ statistics is a billion* times better than any other post | VentureBeat.
So hands up: Who still actually, actively, uses their G+ account? ∞
Sam’s death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, a rate so high that child psychologist Dan Reidenberg, executive director of the Minnesota-based Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, declared the Anoka-Hennepin school district the site of a “suicide cluster,” adding that the crisis might hold an element of contagion; suicidal thoughts had become catchy, like a lethal virus. “Here you had a large number of suicides that are really closely connected, all within one school district, in a small amount of time,” explains Reidenberg. “Kids started to feel that the normal response to stress was to take your life.”
One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone.
Get angry. ∞
It made me wonder what would happen if all the content-creation industries blocked access to all their products for a day to demonstrate what would happen if they couldn’t make any money from their work owing to rogue sites. There’d be no music, no television, no film, no books, no radio. What would you miss the most – culture or Wikipedia?
Behind the music: What if the culture industry shut down for a day? | Music | guardian.co.uk.
Wikipedia.
I’d miss Wikipedia, Tumblr, Dreamwidth, the AO3, random blogs, my own blog… All that stuff I’d miss a million times more than I would the “culture industry”. ∞