News Photo of the Day

Drawn to my attention by sophy: This photo here.

It truly amazes me what makes the news these days. I have mentioned before that sometimes when I look at news stories or major cultural events, I imagine explaining it to some historical figure, or maybe someone from my family a decade or two ago. I just... I can't really think of a good way to explain this one.

[Edit: grrwoo did a screencap for his LJ here and I'm having fun looking at the toolbars in his image. More evidence that the hummingwolf is a geek.]

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I suppose I'm feeling better. It probably would not be right to say that I feel less sick. There is a pervasive sense of unreality today. It's as if the world decided to pretend there was a Thursday this week, but there isn't really, it's just a game of make-believe till we all decide it's time to have a real day again. There may be a real world out there... it doesn't seem to matter. Hi there, migraine, how are ya?

I thought about going outside, putting my socks and shoes on and hoping the grass stains at my knees aren't too obvious as I go out to play with the real people and do some things that I really would be better off having done. I didn't think about it too hard. If I thought about reality too much, see, the migraine would remember that it's supposed to bring a nasty headache with it, so I'd really rather not remind it. If I can get the aura without the headache, that's fine. It would be more convenient, less interfering with practical matters, if there were neither migraine aura nor migraine pain. Since it looks like the aura will be here anyway, though, I'd prefer it to play a solo. Reality will still be there tomorrow, right?

Google Blogsearch and You

Please bear with me: I'm going to try really, really hard to make sense, but there is still migraine residue clogging up my brain.

So anyway, the topic of this post is Google Blogsearch, a new feature from the Google Empire about which many people are excited and many other people are panicked. Go ahead, take a minute and search for yourself if you haven't already.

Now, some of you are geekily thrilled about seeing yourself all over the blogosphere. Have fun! Google has given you a nifty new toy to play with!

Those of you who are now scared are probably those who, on your LJ Edit Info page, have the Block Robots/Spiders from indexing your journal option checked and thought Google would respect that forever.( Read for info about blocking blogsearch, maybe )

This has been a public service for anyone out there who didn't want their whole LiveJournal to be searchable by random internutters, but didn't want to go friends-only either. But the important thing to remember is this: If you don't want people reading your diary entries, don't post them on the Internet.


[Edit: Info for people who do want their journals indexed.]( Read more... )