Spam spam spam spam (2nd verse, the same as the first)

[jadesfire]

Normally I try to put these into some kind of logical order, but I'm on my little computer and LJ runs intermittently slow, making shifting stuff around tricky. So it's pot luck, I'm afraid! It also froze and crashed just as I was about to post *loves LJ's draft function*

Now *rubs hands together* Let's clear this delicious account, shall we?

I try not to make assumptions about what people know, and this post was useful to me: How to highlight spoilers for all journals Someone recently tried this for a fic, but because I have a brown background for my reading list, I could see the spoiler pretty clearly in their white text. Highlights matter, folks!

The galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries

Encyclopaedia Romana. There was a time when I saw this kind of thing and thought about my degree. Now, I just think about Nightdog's Annals series *g*

I haven't had much of a chance to check this out properly, but Book Army looks interesting for helping people find other books they might like.

Blackmare, you may not want to scroll down to the bottom of this. Seriously, why would you make a cake that looks like that?

I have no idea what the sciencey words mean, but so pretty!

I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I want my tap recognising me...

This is for those of us who often have trouble proving we're human. Some of those warped letters are seriously hard to read...

Music folks, take your collection to any computer (legally!)

Tweeting by telepathy. Yes, really.

An interesting perspective on reinventing the book

I really enjoy the O'Reilly Radar blog, and this piece about teaching and memory is a good example of why.

I still can't quite get over the fact that I've lived through a time when a proper noun has become a verb, and now a verb. Let's face it, very few people are ever going to call it "the dysoning", but Un-Googlable is a neologism people will instantly recognise. It's fascinating. Oh, and the article's quite fun too.

Fantasy maps are always great. Fantasy book maps are even better

Keeping up with the digirati (this is another favourite blog, btw)

She's either desperate or mad, but either way, this is not how to get a good divorce settlement. Relatedly, the strangest legal cases of 2008

McSweeney's INTERNET-AGE WRITING SYLLABUS AND COURSE OVERVIEW. Someone possibly has too much time on their hands, but this is still brilliant.

Given I'm in a different timezone to at least 60% of my flist, Universal Greeting Time strikes me as an excellent idea.

And finally, if anyone has not seen Zoo borns (thanks naye!), it's gloriously sweet and highly recommended. And this is the cutest ass you will ever see

Comments

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that list of links, which I've been perusing for a while now.

Though every time I visit Cakewrecks, I end up there for agggggges.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee. Cake Wrecks is all kinds of awesome, but also the best procrastination tool in the world :D

The links were slightly dumped because I hate posting them from this computer - glad you're enjoying!

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Aw, what a fun list! Thank you!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Yay! Hope you had fun with it :)

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Oh, the horror of those horse cakes! I think all my mom's effort to keep me from ever seeing the Godfather movies is now for naught. *g* On the other hand, CUTE BABY ASS is very very cute.

I'm passing on that McSweeney's article to my colleagues, thank you!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*g* The horse cakes were just wrong. How could anyone look at that and think "yup, that's a good cake"?

I thought you'd like the learning article.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I'm on love with the map of the bookland ^^

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I couldn't understand a lot of it, but I thought someone else would like it!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Some is explained in the comments. It's a very detailed thing, and much thought went into it; all those 'Islands of failure' in the Ocean of New Books. Heh.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yummy SPAM!

I'll have the Spam, Spam, eggs and Spam, with a side of Spam.

Yeah, those horse cakes? WOW. I'm torn between hilarious and creepy.

The telepathic-twitter link is great for a certain SF future AU, so thanks muchly for that too.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*g* The horse cakes are so very, very disturbing O.O

Always happy to help :D

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot of nifty links. Possibly too many, eep!

While I agree that the CAPTCHA's aren't perfect for human detection, I think it's really cool the way they're being put to use to decode text OCR software isn't getting. [article link (http://www.utne.com/human-brains-doing-the-internets-bidding.aspx)] Besides, any "system that could capture the way humans interact with forms algorithmically" could then be adapted to reproduce those actions, duh.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

With this many, hopefully there's something there for everyone. And you do not want to know how many RSS feeds I subscribe to...

Ooh, that's interesting, thanks. I sometimes really struggle with CAPTCHA, especially on megaupload, but it's got to be better than nothing.

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, those new ones on MU are a killer! I seem to be doing better with them now but at first there were times I didn't think I'd ever be able to read them!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw one, it took me about 5 minutes to work out that they were even characters. It just looked like a random pattern to me. I swear, the only reason I got a premium account was so I didn't have to type them in ;)

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the "strangest legal cases of 2008" link is the same as the previous link to the psycho wife.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Doh. One was bound to slip through. thanks *corrects*