Stay Out Super-Late Tonight ([info]copperbadge) wrote,
@ 2009-10-29 16:01:00
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Allow me to share with you...

THE INTERNET!

It's a beautiful place to be!

[info]firynze and [info]booknerdguru are messing about in literary cyberspace! They've just opened up a beta of their new website, Catchn, which is sort of like the toddler offspring of a literary magazine and a fanfic archive. You can read more here, but the essential upshot is that you can submit an original story for "publication" on the archive. Stories are read for quality, and those that are rejected get feedback and suggestions for improvement. In Firynze's words, "We made a shiny thing! Help us break it!"

[info]51stcenturyfox has posted "The Assist", a Ianto/Gwen/Rhys fanfic which I helped beta and which rocks your socks. READ IT HARD OK.

Finally, from [info]pinkfinity, an article about Graving. I never knew there was a name for my jaunting around in Graceland Cemetery, or apparently that it's something I shouldn't tell BossBoss about...

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[info]mistressindi
2009-10-29 09:18 pm UTC (link)
THE INTERNET!

It's a beautiful place to be!

I want a shirt that says this.

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[info]firynze
2009-10-29 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Me too!

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[info]copperbadge
2009-11-03 04:09 am UTC (link)
I tried to make one for you, but I suck at shirt design. :D

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[info]booknerdguru
2009-10-29 09:30 pm UTC (link)
YES!

Please come help us break it so we can make it better!

:-D

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[info]bare_bear
2009-10-29 09:50 pm UTC (link)
AND IT'S THE INTERNETS BIRTHDAY!!!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091029/technology/us_it_internet_history_kleinrock

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[info]bare_bear
2009-10-29 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Well, this year, anyways. Maybe you caught it already, I just noticed it. ;) Happy Belated 40th birthday, Internet!

Here's a neat video, if you're interested: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090831-internet-40th-video-ap.html

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[info]rosathome
2009-10-29 10:35 pm UTC (link)
No, it is TODAY! October 29th, 1969. Not that it worked very well then either...

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[info]bare_bear
2009-10-30 02:32 am UTC (link)
OH! I thought I saw September something...somewhere. The Internet is Great, but not always accurate. I know, shocker, eh? :D

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[info]phinnia
2009-10-29 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Graving is also called Harolding, from the movie Harold and Maude <3

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[info]bloodanna
2009-10-30 05:08 am UTC (link)
I thought Harolding was when you crashed the funerals/coffin-lowerings of strangers as that's really more what they do in the movie (which I love, btw, it's nice to see another fan :D ).

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[info]copperbadge
2009-10-30 01:38 pm UTC (link)
But they never really crashed the services, they just...attended uninvited. They were very respectful!

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[info]firynze
2009-10-29 09:59 pm UTC (link)
It's taking wee little baby steps on chubby little feet! It's all cute and adorable!

...and then it starts drooling, and the code gets all messy, and then I whimper a little.

Yep, totally a new parent. *grin*

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[info]starlady38
2009-10-29 10:28 pm UTC (link)
You and Audrey Niffenegger, who got a book out of it.

I dunno, as someone else who thinks graveyards are nifty (partly because the only school I went to that didn't have a graveyard attached was my college), I don't think it's that weird to wander around graveyards. Particularly here in New Jersey, there are tons of little old ones everywhere, most with absolutely minimal security. And it's pretty cool to read headstones from three hundred years ago.

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[info]firynze
2009-10-30 01:56 am UTC (link)
I live across the street from a graveyard like that, and there's several others in town. It's awesome, innit?

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[info]rosathome
2009-10-29 10:34 pm UTC (link)
So tell me more about this INTERNET of which you speak? Does it come on my computer?

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[info]copperbadge
2009-11-05 05:20 pm UTC (link)
ROFL. No, you have to have the internet installed at a warehouse!

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[info]minkrose
2009-10-30 12:02 am UTC (link)
Hey, if there'd been any sort of indoor reception area, I would have fought tooth & nail to get MARRIED in the Mount Auburn Cemetary (and I wouldn't be the first person to do so, either!). But it's too cold to eat outside in October, and we didn't want to have to travel to a reception site.

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[info]adina_atl
2009-10-30 01:49 am UTC (link)
The weird thing in the graving article is if you click on the link to Minnie Coffin's record on Find a Grave you can see from the picture that the headstone was intended for a couple, but the other half was never filled in. I wonder what happened.

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[info]sophie_spence
2009-10-30 02:53 pm UTC (link)
For your viewing pleasure - I just saw an article on CNN about graving (which it calls "cemetery tourism") here, that has a link to a nice assortment of photographs. =)

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