Worth remembering: Your fandom is not Fandom, by schmevil.
…everybody does fandom differently. Fandom is not fanworks fandom. It is not media fandom, SF fandom, or whatever fandom. It is all of these things and more. There exist fandoms and ways of doing fandom that you have never heard of. Fandom is mindbogglingly huge and varied – I’m constantly discovering new fandoms, and new fannish activities. All of these ways of doing Fandom are valid.
1. SpamAssassin has been marking mail from 2010 as “grossly in the future.” It’s been fixed in the beta for months, but they issued an emergency update over the holiday. Of course, if they’d done the test by using math instead of pattern matching, it wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. (via Pobox)
2. A 2010 bug has caused problems with German credit cards. It seems we got complacent after Y2K and stopped worrying about date changes.
It turns out that in the digital age, the average American reads three times as many words today as thirty years ago.
Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman has been co-opted by a political disinformation campaign. Remember: any time you receive a political email that asks you to forward it to everyone you know, check the facts first!
(Both via This Is True)
First, some linkblogging…
And then the “fun” started.
Computer update: Disk check finished overnight, seems OK. Ran a backup just in case, but got some work done on that project!
Cool: Retro posters for Up by Paul Conrad (via The Beat).
A good tech support one-liner from (The customer is) Not Always Right: A Flock Of Explorers On A Safari Singing Opera.
Me: “Alright, so what browser are you using to view your websites?”
Customer: “Mozzarella Firefox!”
