Candidates Face the Changes - CollegeHumor video

Another amusing CollegeHumor video.  Make sure you watch to the end

NoScript - JavaScript/Java/Flash blocker for a safer Firefox experience! - what is it? - InformAction

I don’t know if you care, but I’m reasonably paranoid about computer security, and this Firefox plugin is the best approach I’ve found.  It defaults to disallowing every form of scripting on any site you visit until you explicitly approve it (via a little toolbar button in the status line that shows you all the sites the page is trying to run scripts from), either temporarily or permanently.  It would be hard to get control more fine-grained than that and still be useful, though I do still use Adblock to block certain scripts from running on a site that I otherwise trust, just to block out ads that contain motion.

Note to advertisers if you happen to stumble across this:  I will never put up with any ad that contains anything that moves, blinks, or changes color.  As soon as  I see one of those, I not only block the offending ad, I block the entire provider.  If you want me to see your ad, you had better make it just sit there rather than demanding my attention.

What I Did Over Christmas Vacation « Miss(ed) Manners

‘This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers penned by the late, great, J.R.R. Tolkien.’

The above was actually from last year. This year, they’ve done The Battle of Pelennor Fields (the siege of Minas Tirith). It’s truly made of awesome. And candy. Awesome candy.

protagonize: interactive fiction & collaborative story writing community

Welcome to Protagonize: your destiny awaits.

Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the\naddventure, a type of collaborative\ninteractive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches to it in different directions. The result is\nan organic, evolving story where everyone can participate

via EFL Geek

We had something like this on the computer system where I went to college–I think either written by, or just mostly populated by, folks in the Science Fiction Club.  The fiction that resulted was god-awful.  Some of that may have been the form, some of that may have been the folks (hard to expect much coherence from a club with the motto “Randomness Rules!”), but it was a way to while away time, and sometimes was pretty funny.