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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

[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.