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Okay, this is kind of adorable. As is this, if for nothing else than Raidou's thoroughly ticked-off expression. And then there is this, although damned if I can figure out how Raidou would have gotten a Prinny.

Also: this, which sums up the Tower of Kagutsuchi experience really, really well. What is it with Megaten and towers.

(Note: To see the pictures at full size, you do need an account.)

MovieTickets.com lied. Or, well, maybe they don't have more than 4 or 5 days worth of data.

But I AM going to go see Boondock Saints II tonight! Wooo! I watched the trailer yesterday and it made it look awesome (as trailers do).

And I will not be thinking of crossing over BDS and the BtVS-verse. Honest. No matter if Julie Benz is the FBI agent this time. *whistles innocently*

Just a couple of things:

Atlus USA apparently announced Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey's localization today. (I only say "apparently" because I can't get to Atlus' site at the moment.)

Hideo Kojima and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto are helping to judge a Twilight art contest, along with Ryuji Gotsubo (who, among other things, illustrated the Japanese editions of the Twilight books). You can probably guess how various Metal Gear Solid and/or Evangelion fans (but probably not all of them) are reacting to this.

From the business section of the Guardian this week: Google seeks to turn a profit from YouTube copyright clashes. The article's subtitle gives you the gist: "Group is working to persuade music and video companies to cash in rather than clamp down when their content is uploaded." In short, Google wants to use their content fingerprinting system to report uses--even transformed uses--to copyright holders and then to offer them the chance to put ads on user-generated content. There's lots wrong with that, but perhaps the wrongest is the idea that the companies have the right to take things down because "because the use does not fit the original's values." C'mon, Google! Don't be evil!

In brighter news, UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing. This "could include legalising more outright copying, the creation of sound/image mashups, format-shifting and sharing material with family and friends."

Relatedly, folks seem to be figuring out that the DVR isn't actually the death of commercial television and that so-called "music pirates" actually buy more music. While we've heard this song before, optimistically copyright holders will eventually figure out that they shouldn't be afraid of new technologies.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

The past couple of nights, I've had the chance to chat with joannindiw and/or mendax,neither of whom I've had the opportunity to chat with in far too long. Yay, chat! for chat leads to chat!fic, and chat!fic is a wonderful thing.

Last night, mendax told me she had come up with a prompt for me to write some Gatch for her... but, woe! she had forgotten the prompt in the course of her busy day. :-( Her replacement prompt was not something I had expected. She said, I’m in the mood to read something soothing. One of those happy slice-of-life things, or moments of discovery, or connection, but I don’t know how to phrase it.

Something soothing. With Gatch. My jaw dropped - what did she think I was, a miracle worker? Then my lazy muse got intrigued - was it even possible? So I tried. This is the result, which mendax said I had to post. ^^ Beware o' slash.

( A soothing slice of Gatch )

C&C always gratefully accepted.

Welcome to our weekly update from the chair of ADT. All the news that's fit to print about the progress of the Archive of Our Own is below the cut. This post may also be found on the Archive of Our Own, which is commentable by anyone with or without an AO3 account. Comments are disabled elsewhere as we're noticing people ask similar questions and would like everyone to be able to share the discussion.

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One of our senior coders, the lovely Elz, recently decided that she’d like to fill a few gaps in her knowledge of programming by working through MIT’s OpenCourseWare series Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. In the true spirit of fannish community learning, she’s set up a Dreamwidth community, intro-to-cs, so that anyone else who is interested can join in and support one another. If you’ve always wanted to learn computer programming, now is your chance – the course doesn’t require any previous experience.

You can also fill that burning desire to learn coding by volunteering for OTW coders – all abilities and levels of experience very much welcome!

Welcome to our October, 2009 newsletter. Get news from all your favorite committees about all your favorite OTW projects...right beneath the cut!

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Welcome to our weekly update from the chair of ADT. All the news that's fit to print about the progress of the Archive of Our Own is below the cut. This post may also be found on the Archive of Our Own which is commentable by anyone with or without an AO3 account. Comments are disabled elsewhere as we're noticing people ask similar questions and would like everyone to be able to share the discussion.

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So, just in case anyone still goes there... my website on GeoCities has all been transferred over here to Tripod. If things are not showing up, links are broken, or I've otherwise screwed up somehow, please let me know so I can fix it. I'll probably tweak it more later; right now, I need a break.