Fannish Items of Interest

[calliopes_pen]

Sarah Michelle Gellar finally gave birth to a baby girl. Her name is Charlotte Grace Prinze.

Embedding videos on LJ was disabled for a while—here’s why. Personally, I’ve always hated embedding videos, and prefer to just link to things. For some people—like me a for a while there a year or so back, when IE crashed whenever it encountered them on my friends page —their browsers just don’t like embedded videos.

ETA: I've just gone through and checked, and I don't believe that my account was affected by this. There is now a news post about it, over here.

I got my prompt from wendymr and The Shadow Proclamation, for the Support Stacie Auction, and I love it. Before I get started on it, I’ll rewatch The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End one more time. Here’s the prompt: “The final 10 minutes of Journey’s End: Jack, Rose, Donna and the Duplicate Doctor gang up on Ten to make him change his mind about running away from everyone. OT3 conclusion, with or without the Duplicate and Donna on the scene, would be lovely.”

Did anyone else watch Dancing With The Stars last night? I was wondering how Kelly Osborne was going to do, since she seemed like she had grown up quite a bit. She was fantastic.

In contrast, I’m hoping that Macy Gray (from the male celebrities, I want Tom Delay to be kicked off) goes home tonight, as it’s obvious she doesn’t want to be there.

And now, a meme, taken from a few people on my friends list:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Comments

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

I've never liked embedded videos because for some reason most people think they are exempt from the cut tag.

[calliopes_pen]

I've definitely seen a lot of that, too--another reason I've never liked the embedded videos.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does cause my f'list to load sloooooowly at times. Maybe I should invest in whichever Firefox addon it is that forces Flash players and other such widgets to load as placeholders.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Weird about that exploit. Though to be honest, I'm glad at the loss of embedded videos. They should be cut and slow down my browsing (since I usually browse LJ on an older computer that can't even install the programs needed to run them, but it tries nonetheless).

[calliopes_pen]

I believe the removal of embedded videos was just a temporary thing, while they figured out where the exploit was coming from. Last I checked, they were allowed again.

And I agree, they really should be put under a cut. The nuisance of the whole thing is why I prefer to just link to Youtube videos. It doesn't kill the friends list that way.

[gioiamia.livejournal.com]

So THAT is what was going on with embedded videos! Thought I was losing my mind!

Thank you for the explanation. :-)