sundries - quick

[rm]

Patty's deep into comps and I'm trying to finish some work before running home to pack and head off to the airport. So we're both sort of crazed.

LJ has acknowledged concerns about the Twitter/Facebook cross-posting thing. What the resolution will be remains to be seen. This workaround will remove the cross-posting boxes for all people viewing your entries if you use a custom design in S2. An LJ staffer also apparently wants you to fill out this poll about the cross-posting thing. That's all I've got on that. ETA: oh fuck, it looks like LJ did a deal and it probably can't back out.

BTW, I have no intention of using the cross-posting feature. Sometimes I post links to my LJ on those services, but generally for shit like "hey, here's my Dragon*Con schedule."

Everything you learned on White Collar is true, but less glamorous: Guy claims he lost $1.3 million painting after taking it to a potential buyer while trashed, gets sued; turns out he has art theft past. No shit?

Apple edits out Lady Gaga's pro-gay tweets on sample Ping page.

Hey, people freaking out about Sandman and TV rights and Kripke? I don't watch Supernatural and I know about the problems with it, but folks who write and create for TV get those gigs for a lot of reasons, including ability to structure and adapt and deliver on brutal schedules and run a writer's room. So unless there are indicators elsewhere in Kripke's career, with non-faily source material, this is not the apocalypse, since the fan/creator feedback loop for Sandman is unlikely to bear any resemblance to that of Supernatural's.

Why is Twitter sometimes awesome? Today's answer: Simon Pegg goes on a John Simm mpreg story ramble. This is nerdtasmic.

Friend has involved me in a cracky, cracky awesome project that involves words like "Bollywood," "waltz," "tango" and "more hits than you can possibly imagine." ;) And it has nothing to do with Moulin Rouge. Hahaha.

Comments

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Dude, what is with Apple?!

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Kripkie: excpt that the Sup fans *are* likely to follow Kripkie around to his other projects -- just like Torchwood fans follow GDL, Barrowman and RTD (and other cast members). GDL, IMO, gets a lot of unpleasant shit due to his T'wood fan following because they treat him like a gay man (ie: like the fantasy Ianto) when he's ... not. Kripkie clearly knows his Sup fandom and has established a pattern of a particular response to them. Plus, the normal pressures of creating work in the big time ... I'm dubious. Also, excited.

Apple: sigh. I love apple computers. I'm really coming to hate Apple the company. I think I'm going to be looking for a different brand of ereader than an Ipad.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Again, on Sandman -- there's a well-known, well-loved, well-developed source material with a very large, very loud fandom and a very active in many mediums creator. If the source isn't respected, the project will tank.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yup. Like I said, both excited (there are so many things I *love* about Sup but the bad things make it stick in my craw) and dubious -- I've well learned my lesson about not trusting the media production machine.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm ALWAYS dubious, I think, which is why I don't really talk about my dubiousness, it's like a given.

On the other hand, I also don't have a major emotional attachment to most of Sandman. I like it, I think it's great work, I have a significant attachment to one particular story in it, but I'm not emotionally involved in watching this process.

(On the other hand, seriously, I'm a genderqueer ex-dominatrix, why isn't the phone ringing about Desire, RIGHT NOW?)

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

(On the other hand, seriously, I'm a genderqueer ex-dominatrix, why isn't the phone ringing about Desire, RIGHT NOW?)

Because they're going to look for someone who resembles Tilda Swinton?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I would be very happy with that if it actually happened (Tilda or Tildalike). I have serious fear there.

I'd also love, in a twisted way, if they had multiple different actresses playing Delirium.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I also get the sense that Kripke is very aware of his audience. Anyone who's seen the "Becky" episodes of SPN (I'm not a regular watcher, though many of my friends are pretty deep in the fandom) knows he's aware, and to a debatable degree, respectful.

I can see him being an intelligent choice for a Sandman project, if not the correct one.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yean, there are a lot of things about Sup that are incredibly well done -- particularly cultureally cogent things and that would work really well with Sandman.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

Re: the "Oops, I forgot the Corot!" story. As someone who works in the art museum/gallery biz, I am always amazed at how folks are willing to drop tens of thousands of dollars on artwork, but squawk about the cost of using an art shipper (which can run up to several hundred bucks, but is likely less than 1% of the cost of the artwork in question).

I had to make arrangements for an incoming shipment once, when the art shipper wanted to visit the client's house to examine the art to figure out how to pack it, and every time I was trying to explain this to the client, his answer was always, "But it's sturdy! Just throw a blanket on it!" All that other art in the truck that will get smashed by his stuff being unanchored didn't seem to phase him in the least.

Rest assured that every museum registrar in NYC is laughing at this clown...

[effervescent.livejournal.com]

From ETA #3 on this post, apparently linking FB to your LJ will then show your full name as listed on FB on your LJ profile.

This just keeps getting worse.

[andrewducker]

Looks to me like the FB deal just means that FB users will be able to log in to LJ using their FB id, much like you can with OpenID at the moment. Or, at least, that's all that excerpt seems to be saying.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

LJ has acknowledged concerns about the Twitter/Facebook cross-posting thing.

They have? Any idea where? I'm lost in all of the comments on the news post.

EDIT: NM. I see they edited the post.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

So I went over to comment on their update (http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html?thread=87911078#t87911078), and find that they've now turned on CAPTCHA.

Heh.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It goes on automatically after 5,000 comments.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

I was not aware of that. And now I'm kind of amused - I guess 5K comments crossed the threshold from "shitstorm" to "holy fuck, get in the ark!"

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

I'd expect there to be some threshold above which it's not a bad assumption that a post is being flooded with spam comments. I'd have thought 5000 was too high a number to pick for anything but a news post, which inevitably explode.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

That post is up to 7079 comments - more than a thousand more than there were when I toddled off for some lunch and hour ago, and it's still rising.

I've seen some explosions here, but this one has been the fastest! And DreamWidth picked up nearly 10K new users just yesterday. Typically, they only get about 250 new accounts a day. I expect they're running around like mad over there to accommodate the influx.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

just when i think i can't love simon pegg more!

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

This Doyle fellow is no Neal Caffrey. I mean, points for the business card, but that's about it.

I am laughing my ass off at Pegg/Simm.

As for the LJ thing, it's pretty much finally cemented a switch to DW for me. Not a total one -- crossposting public content and reading my f-list over here is still very much in play -- but we've been seeing these kinds of shenanigans since LJ went super corporate, and it's finally worn me down.

Also, WTF Apple?!

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

So unless there are indicators elsewhere in Kripke's career, with non-faily source material this is not the apocalypse

There are so many things that are funny about this sentence in the context of the last season of SPN that I don't know where to start!

But the "this is not the apocalypse" comment is particularly amusing!!

[darklingwoods.livejournal.com]

well as always thank you for bringing the news! Sandman TV?

I can't really think past that snippet sorry! (and I've never seen SPN) so I'll try to remain hopeful