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If you used the opt-out I linked yesterday, you might want to go back and do it again. Turns out it's set opt_exclude_stats 1.
* jld explains the privacy and security issues associated with this script.
* dingsi has some more links dealing with the affiliate-linking issue. Also, apparently one of the recent Writer's Block questions was made of fail on a few levels.

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azurelunatic: How could Wesley Crusher have been treated in Star Trek: The Next Generation, to make him identifiable and even awesome?

omnomnom: zarhooie provides us with Green Tea Pound Cake.

via lots of people, most recently copperbadge:

Signal boost: Sonoma County, California, separated an elderly couple, sold off all their belongings, and imprisoned them in separate nursing homes, without the legal authority to do so. Why?

They're gay.

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Roller derby: awesome! We had to learn the rules and scoring practices through osmosis (and really could not hear the commentators well at all). We also ate some fried dough (truth in advertising!), which was basically a large flat beignet. Nomnomnom.

This morning, we went to the Flea at MIT. The original plan was for me to take the train; Ellie was driving but she had already promised every possible seat in her car to people from Wireless Club. But two cancellations later, I had a ride, yay.

Here are pictures of the things I got! Since I, uh, don't know what some of these doodads are called.

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[ironed_orchid]

Roller derby rules are pretty easy.

Here the commentators give a quick outline before teh bout starts, because it's a new sport and getting more popular.

[go_gentle]

Derby! One of the people I know at work skates for the Cosmonaughties, but I've never been out to see them.

[rivenwanderer]

Oh hey, that thing on the right of the bottom picture looks to be a thing called a divider, and is actually quite useful for certain tasks in metalsmithing... wonder if I could find one on the cheap if I went to the flea next month? I've been meaning to go for geekery and ephemera anyway...

[blnchflr]

Thanks for the links - LJ is so fucked up, gah.