So, there is a tiny web-app somewhere that lets you take lj poll results* and display them on their other axis: that is, instead of telling you how many answers you got for each option, it tells you who voted for what. (In case this sounds sketchy, it doesn't reveal anything not already available for you, just indexes it differently.)

And I cannot find it! Google is //massively// unhelpful. Does anyone
a) know what I'm talking about, and
b) have it bookmarked?

* and, I assume, dw/ij, etc, but I can't find it, so really, how would I know?

Man, you guys, I just want to be able to sort my del.icio.us bookmarks by URL. Just for the purposes of neatening up my tags a little. Seriously. I understand why they might not want to make that available on their website, but honestly, is there really no client which will let me do that? Really? I really am not too keen on writing my own, y'all.

On the subject of my bookmarks, though, if you guys haven't read ijemanja's recent leverage fic, you don't even know what you're missing. I cried from laughing while reading this fabulous Sterling piece.

This amazon comment page for a $500 audio cable (all 59 inches of it!) is hilarious and wonderful, but brings me forcibly to the conclusion something is wrong with my font-rendering. 

I'm guessing this is probably something to do with my fonts, rather than to do with firefox, but damn it's wonky.

So I was thinking about example variable names, as you do.

In at least some programming circles, when describing a procedure, it's common to give the example variable names "foo" and "bar" (presumably from "fubar") to make it clear that these aren't real variables, and it doesn't matter, because you're not really talking about any particular variable.

However, it occured to me that we have the same thing in English, at least for the variable $peopleNames: John Doe, or in conversational English, Joe Blow.

And in Mexico, or the part I was in, the examplePerson was Fulana de Tal, or Fulanita de Tal.

Are there other common ones, in English, or in other languages?

Arrays are awesome!

So fstab randomly decided to make up a new UUID for my swap paritition, which oddly enough, didn't work. ...huh. If I don't come out in half an hour, call the police vassilissa

OMG, I just got my very first seg-fault!  It's like I'm a real programmer now.

In 1977 NASA launched two Voyager probes.  Both of them carried an engraved gold-plated copper disk which contained pictures and sounds of earth, intended both as a time capsule, and as a message for any intelligent life which might encounter it.

And here it is. Most of the stuff on the record was chosen by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, but that notwithstanding, it's difficult to look and especially listen to this stuff and not get a sense of romance. The pictures are a bit like paging through a highschool science text crossed with an old National Geographic, but even they are clearly attempting to show Earth's best face. This is the Earth these people hoped an alien would get to know, and one presumes, like. Listen especially to the collected music. (Feel free to skip the messages.)

Guys, they made a mixtape for aliens.* If that doesn't make you go awwwwwww you have no romance in your soul.

(For thete1, Carl Sagan: like Batman, in a way.)

Method of attaching user-notes to lj names so that I can remember salient facts about people who are not on my flist.  It could be a greasemonkey script!

Download manager which would sort my downloads by extension and referring URL.

Screwdriver with soft, chewable handle, for when you run out of hands while installing light fixtures.

Anyone reading this profficient in php and Apache? I'd like a second opinion on something.

If so, you may want to skip this post, but for others, there is a beta version of a tool that in addition to migrating journals will migrate communities (with some degree of fidelity) from one journaling service to another, here, by antennapedia.

Is everyone wearing their pins? Their hats? Please join me in singing our theme song.

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*koff* Right, moving on! It has been a good week for het in DCU fandom.

Petra wrote the pairing of my heart, Dick/Babs, Due Process and it is perfect, playful and twisted, shading into wrong. Pre-crisis, Babs was a Congresswoman, and Dick was a congressional page.

3jane wrote Tim/Cass, Written on the Skin, Just under your Face, showing how to write Cass correctly. It's Jane, so it's fucked up, hot, and whip-smart.

And glossing wrote All Other Fetters, a story that frankly has established itself as the definitive Bruce/Selina/Batman/Catwoman story, possibly the definitive Selina story. This story takes apart Catwoman's history, retcons, re-retcons, confused canon and all, in a fugue of meta, identity porn, and just plain porn. It's written in six parts, all of them so good that I felt like each deserved its own feedback. Honestly, if you read any het at all, you should read this.

Remember this game when the sound came out of a PC Speaker and it was controlled by the keyboard?

Okay, so I've been using a Greasemonkey script to remove ?style=mine from links because I'm one of the two people on lj who doesn't like it. (I click on a link then think, "WTF? Why is this person posting in my lj?") But a while ago it stopped working, and I'm not sure if LJ made changes or Greasemonkey did, and I can't get it to work again. If anyone reading this is bored or interested, I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look. I'm basically a script-kiddie and this has exceeded my competence.

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So, in some cases, fannish migration is really freakin' obvious. Like that thing where everyone got disappointed by Smallville and then Stargate: Atlantis showed up? So I decided to try to track fan movement. This is obviously not going to be true for one person in particular, but rather in the aggregate (if at all). Black rectangles are the span of canon. Some canons will seem to overlap which didn't, because I went by years rather than seasons. Red lines are fandom persistence. Sometimes a fandom expires before a canon, although I'm aware that many die-hards hung on until the end. I stopped tracking the persistence of the fandom when the canon ended.

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I was not involved in very many of these fandoms at all, so this is merely my outsider impression. This is mostly a rough to prove it could be done.

As is perhaps obvious, I don't have flowchart software, but I'm very interested in your thoughts, and will attempt to incorporate corrections and suggestions.