dan.

...overhyped trendy bands turn out to be pretty good?

Donnie Darko. The Sequel.
I suppose it won't be as bad as Southland Tales right? Right!?

It's news from two years ago but nobody told me!
We are also one step closer to a Robot Apocalypse.
Or at least actors complaining about how a robot took their job.

So Michael Mitcham is now the only openly gay Olympic athlete to have won a gold medal, for diving.
Which media outlet won't be able to resist using the 'only gay in the village' in their stories tomorrow.

You'd have to Green Lantern not to!

Really I'm quite surprised this hasn't caught on over here in Australia
or maybe it has, and I have no idea because I've hardly been out this year.

The Crank em dance by Soulja boy,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROeLIZtpvio

The actual videoclip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpocrqvP2Yg&feature=related

I can see how this could get annoying, but for now I still enjoy the video

The new TV on the Radio song is so good I had to post about it.
I thought i was going to sick of it after listening to it on repeat like 5 times yesterday, but then I didn't.

Brain die bad p-o-s-t save meeeeeeeeeeeee.
I are Bizarro I Hate you all.

I wonder if i can do a whole post in Bizarro speak.
Maybe next time

i just saw sharkwater for the third time. i saw it twice on the ship whilst in the galapagos islands last year and just then i was the only person in the whole cinema watching it....

up to 100 million sharks are killed each year for their fins, where they are often still alive while the fins are cut off. they are then thrown overboard and drown because they cannot swim.

YOU COULD COMPARE IT TO HAVING YOUR HANDS AND FEET CHOPPED OFF AND LEFT TO FEND FOR YOURSELF

they have been here for more than 400 million years, since before the dinosaurs and have survived FIVE MASS EXTINCTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

90% of the shark population have been killed.

it takes about 25 years before they can even have babies!!!

sharks don't EAT people. more people are killed by elephants than sharks

australia plans on opening a shark finning industry in queensland on the great barrier reef.

http://www.sharksavers.org/content/view/260/9/

i urge each and every one of you to go and see the film sharkwater to learn more about sharks and what's happening to them and the oceans and all the other marine/bird life that caught in the fishing lines.
it's showing in melbourne right now
it's available on DVD already

what would the world be like without sharks?

There is increasing alarm around how the loss of sharks may affect the oceans as the great lungs of the earth. Phytoplankton are the micro-plants of the ocean that collectively represent the biggest quantity of vegetation on the planet. Phytoplankton consume more carbon dioxide than all the trees in our forests and produce most of the oxygen we breathe. And, they are food for lots of different species of fish. And many of those fish are, in turn, shark food.

http://www.sharksavers.org/content/view/68/77/

further reading:

http://www.sharktrust.org

http://savingsharks.com/

http://www.sharks.org/

http://www.seashepherd.org/longline/

http://www.sharkwater.com

Arnold Compilation



Batman and Robin in 9 Minutes


Joel Schumachers Apology

Hammer throw has got to be the most gut wrenching and entertaining of all Olympic sports.

Do the judges have a death wish? How do they not get whipped by the chain or hit by the ball?

Development Goals and Basic Accounts

Last week we updated our development goals for 2008. Generally we noted a number of cool enhancements and investments to LiveJournal that we are working on, including improved search, usability, and site development.

We also wanted to let you know how we hope to accomplish all these things, and how we plan on paying for them. In order to accomplish our stated goals for this year and beyond, we need to increase the revenue gained from both groups of LiveJournal accounts: paid subscription accounts and ad-supported accounts.

As of August 28th, all users will be able to choose to downgrade their account to Basic through their Manage Account page. Additionally, we will start showing advertising to visitors who are not logged in to LiveJournal when they are looking at Basic Account journals and communities.

Basic Account users themselves will not see ads on any Basic journal or community while they are logged in to their account. If you want more information about this, take a look at our new post on lj_2008 where we outline our reasoning.

Indian Flash Fiction Contest

In other news, we are excited to tell you we've launched "Quick Tales" LiveJournal's first initiative for users in India, in celebration of India Independence day, August 15th. "Quick Tales" is a flash fiction writing contest in which we're partnering with Caferati.com, one of India's largest online literary communites. The contest's winners will receive some great prizes and it is open to anyone with a mailing address in India. We hope that users with an interest in Indian writing or just India will watch LiveJournal's india_writing community. That's where the finalists and winners will be announced, so keep an eye on it towards the end of September! If you're in India then enter the contest - if your story is slick and quick (under 500 words) then you could be the lucky winner!

Meanwhile, back at LiveJournal Inc.

We have updated and redesigned our corporate site. The goal of the redesign was twofold: first, to update the look and feel (Dystopia users will appreciate it!); second, we want to provide a destination for prospective employees, partners, and members of the press where they can access important information about the company. Kudos to our design team.