Slashdot Mirror

http://happiland.2y.net/~mish/toor/omfg.ppt
http://hepkitten.livejournal.com/513183.html

Running joke?

You should read insomnia's journal entry on what Six Apart thinks of LiveJournal... this is what really tipped the tide for me...

When I started with LJ, there wasn't a great deal of teenage drama. In fact, I'd say that 90% of the users were in their mid-to-late twenties... Now Six-Apart is telling me that I'm a teenager to be exploited...

Brad had said several times that the small percentage of paid users and permanent accounts were plenty to cover their costs and pay their salaries and have a little left over - that they weren't interested in 'cashing in'. Six Apart changed that idea very quickly.

One thing to keep in mind - Six Apart has never seen a profit. They are a classic dotcom boom business. They have 70+ people working for them and they buy up little organizations left and right and they have never actually made a penny. LJ's business model was working. It was profitable. Now SA comes in and they have to pay for 'buying' LJ, so hello ads. I'm not going to pay for someone else's mistake. I don't care that my $25.99 would keep me from seeing ads. I'm very comfortable with my principles here.

It's not necessarily a problem, but I disliked the way it was implied that free users wouldn't see adverts, and the only people seeing ads are those who want to, and opt into the system. See the original post at http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/236361.htm l . Although the details of the post point out that free users will see ads, the table earlier claimed they wouldn't, and the general tone of the post was "it's okay to let people see ads if they want to". Also "Well, we're not forcing it on users. It's purely a new option that users can enable if they want, so we don't feel it's that evil."

However, in later announcements they appeared to back-peddle, admitting that free users now see ads, and trying to forget that they were ever against ads in the first place...

Brad posted an entry called "Sponsored Confusion" to explain things and unruffle feathers: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/237699.htm l

See here: http://www.livejournal.com/legal/principles.bml

Notice how "Stay Advertisement Free... we promise to never offer advertising space in our service or on our pages..." changed to the much more formal and significantly less friendly "Avoid Spam... when you sign up for the Service, we understand that to mean you want to communicate with us and hear from us about our products and services..."

Slippery slope indeed. Livejournal, take a look back up that slope to where you started. It's a nice place up there.

Read the entry for yourself

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/236361.htm l

In summary, they are adding a new account level for people who want to see ads to "buy" extra features.

Your friend's list won't have ads, and people who stay "free" or "paid" won't have ads on their own pages. If you go to someone's site who has enabled advertisements in exchange for extra features, "free" users will see ads, but "paid" users will not see ads anywhere.

LJ has historically been above the ghetto filth of xanga and now myspace... not for much longer...

"Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages" (1969)

Mentioned in my blog that it is the same year as the quasar discovery that was mistaken as signals from Little Green Men (LGM). src.

No no no - while Moore's law is merely exponential, Gillette's razor blades are on a hyperbolic curve. They'll go to infinity by 2015. The Economist said so!.

• 7 Debian You chose Debian because you don't like to waste your time fiddling with Makefiles to install your system.
  After 3 years of happy debian using, you apply and become a Debian Mantainer. Now you waste your time fiddling with debian/rules file, to address stupid lintian warnings to comply with obscure parts of the Debian Policy.
  Meanwhile, some people waste your and others time with endless discussions. While you are deleting^H^H^H^H^H^Hreading the latest 400-email-long-flame-war, you hear that Ubuntu has a "Code of Conduct", and that people on Gentoo's IRC are polite and helpful. Your wife warns you that you are strangling your mouse.
  Your mind wanders... "super cow powers" is an option of APT .... but "sex" is not an option of GNU "echo". You suddenly feel the call of Wild Real Life (tm).

The thread and comments were removed (mysteriously) after I informed a lawyer (after a lengthy back and forth in which she went insane because she could focus on nothing but rf's original posts) of how this particular exchange could be actionable as "unlawful harassment" under Washington State law. Read our exchange here:

http://rfjason.livejournal.com/410835.html?thread= 7669715#t7669715

I had a protracted argument with a lawyer on rf's LJ. She was insisting that no part of rfjason's actions were actionable as "unlawful harassment." I pointed out an instance wherein there was an exchange between rf and one of the men in the "experiment" (subsequently deleted) that I believed met the terms of the statute I quoted. She never responded. Another lawyer, later, privately offered the opinion that some of rfjason's actions (not the intial CL or encyclopedia dramatica posts, but subsequent actions) could be ordered ceased by a judge under a petition for an order for protection. In Washington state, unlawful harassment is defined as follows: (1) "Unlawful harassment" means a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person which seriously alarms, annoys, harasses, or is detrimental to such person, and which serves no legitimate or lawful purpose. The course of conduct shall be such as would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and shall actually cause substantial emotional distress to the petitioner, or, when the course of conduct would cause a reasonable parent to fear for the well-being of their child. (2) "Course of conduct" means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose. "Course of conduct" includes, in addition to any other form of communication, contact, or conduct, the sending of an electronic communication. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "course of conduct." http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?Cite=10.14 .020 Our conversation can be found in this thread of the "Craigslist Experiment": http://rfjason.livejournal.com/410835.html?thread= 7669715#t7669715

I went through a series of optimizations of a sample Web application, and one of many steps was to try MySQL instead of PostgreSQL for that particular application. By profiling it with Callgrind it was obvious that in this particular case MySQL was significantly faster. I don't think this is news to anybody that MySQL is quicker at connecting and issueing simple queries

It's news to me. I haven't seen a recent benchmark that says this, and I'm always skeptical of claims MySQL is faster:

• Were you using MySQL as an ACID database? I.e., all tables using a transaction table type, fdatasync() on, real tests telling you that durability is actually working? If not, either run it properly or run PostgreSQL in stupid mode for something approaching an apples-to-apples comparison. fsync = off in $PGDATA/postgresql.conf.
• Were you using MySQL's query cache? Turn it off. It shows bigger numbers on some bad benchmarks but doesn't help real situations: artificially claims silly numbers for tiny sets (are your real data as small as your benchmark?), cleared after every DML statement on that table, etc.
• For that matter, did you issue any DML statements at all? As the bullet point above mentions, they have much greater impact on performance than their proportion would suggest. For other reasons, too. Doesn't MySQL still just have table-level locks? PostgreSQL's the other extreme; it has MVCC.

Seriously, if you can prove MySQL is faster for a real-life situation, write a paper, lay all your steps out for review. (Or point me at one someone else has done on modern versions of said databases.) There are lot of potential mistakes in benchmarking, and I won't believe claims unless I actually see that none of them were made.

By the way, what were you saying about Apache header stupidity? The article is annoyingly vague.

SecurityFocus published an interesting collection of quotes about the best disclosure processes.

Full Disclosure is the only way to go. It's worked brilliantly for Jason Fortuny, my new Hero!

"Situation Normal, All Fucked Up."

DHS: they're not Really Ready for anything, are they?

That's not entirely true. The industry has lobbied the crap out of a number of Republicans. Jeb Bush is in a video game. George Allen and Rick Santorum have partnered with the ESRB to promote education instead of legislation. The conservative Progress and Freedom Foundation is against the censorship of games and have testified before Congress in support of the industry. Even Dubya, in all his theocratic zealotry, has said that government shouldn't be involved in what parents let their kids play (can't find the source there). And then of course there's the fact the fundamentalists are making their own violent games now. There's plenty more examples where these came from.

Now, this isn't to say they're all on "our side" (or that anyone should myopically vote for them on this one issue), but statistically speaking, this issue belongs to the Democrats. Nearly every piece of anti-game legislation in the last two years at the state level has been penned by Democrats; and Clinton, Lieberman, and (to a lesser degree) Bayh are leading the charge at the Federal level. For what it's worth, this is actually one area where most Republicans are still true to their claimed desire for less government. 'Tis probably too little, too late, but, err, yea.

That's not entirely true. The industry has lobbied the crap out of a number of Republicans. Jeb Bush is in a video game. George Allen and Rick Santorum have partnered with the ESRB to promote education instead of legislation. The conservative Progress and Freedom Foundation is against the censorship of games and have testified before Congress in support of the industry. Even Dubya, in all his theocratic zealotry, has said that government shouldn't be involved in what parents let their kids play (can't find the source there). And then of course there's the fact the fundamentalists are making their own violent games now. There's plenty more examples where these came from.

Now, this isn't to say they're all on "our side" (or that anyone should myopically vote for them on this one issue), but statistically speaking, this issue belongs to the Democrats. Nearly every piece of anti-game legislation in the last two years at the state level has been penned by Democrats; and Clinton, Lieberman, and (to a lesser degree) Bayh are leading the charge at the Federal level. For what it's worth, this is actually one area where most Republicans are still true to their claimed desire for less government. 'Tis probably too little, too late, but, err, yea.

Exactly. I interviewed at google and got the impression it was a sweat shop. I detailed in a Blog Post why I won't work there (at least as an engineer. I would do consulting on hiring practices). They are way to secretive for my liking. I work for Disney and am very happy.

OpenID is an authentication system for web applications.

The advantage of OpenID over email ID authentication is that you generally don't want to have to click through your email box every time you log in anywhere. OpenID can provide something like that in a more usable fashion.

OpenID authenticates an identifier. For many people (e.g. LiveJournal users, WikiTravel users, myopenid.com users, etc) this identifier is a URL (e.g. http://frank.livejournal.com/ ). The i-names people would like that identifier to be an i-name instead. (e.g. =frank or @livejournal/frank).

OpenID is one service, an authentication service, that may be used with i-names. The i-brokers plan to offer others as well.

(karma whoring since I had to create a new account) I have been really intrigued by this guy rfjason's actions and have been googling for information just to see what the deal is... I think he might actually be the BIGGEST asshole ever. This is some choice links for insight into this guy's fucked-up-ness: Comments on New orleans Reply to someone who didnt enjoy his PREVIOUS prank His request for help at the tucker max forum The last one is amazing.... A bunch of self-declared assholes concluding that this rfjason guy REALLY is a douche-bag (they just have no qualms about helping him :P) Another good one Seriously, this guy is unbelievable and appears to have said something to piss off everyone at some point or another.

(karma whoring since I had to create a new account) I have been really intrigued by this guy rfjason's actions and have been googling for information just to see what the deal is... I think he might actually be the BIGGEST asshole ever. This is some choice links for insight into this guy's fucked-up-ness: Comments on New orleans Reply to someone who didnt enjoy his PREVIOUS prank His request for help at the tucker max forum The last one is amazing.... A bunch of self-declared assholes concluding that this rfjason guy REALLY is a douche-bag (they just have no qualms about helping him :P) Another good one Seriously, this guy is unbelievable and appears to have said something to piss off everyone at some point or another.

(karma whoring since I had to create a new account) I have been really intrigued by this guy rfjason's actions and have been googling for information just to see what the deal is... I think he might actually be the BIGGEST asshole ever. This is some choice links for insight into this guy's fucked-up-ness: Comments on New orleans Reply to someone who didnt enjoy his PREVIOUS prank His request for help at the tucker max forum The last one is amazing.... A bunch of self-declared assholes concluding that this rfjason guy REALLY is a douche-bag (they just have no qualms about helping him :P) Another good one Seriously, this guy is unbelievable and appears to have said something to piss off everyone at some point or another.

Might I add:

whois rfjason.com:

Registrant:
RFJason
726 Kirkland Cir
Apt C203
Kirkland, WA 98033
United States of America

Registrar: DomainPeople Inc.

Domain Name: rfjason.com
Created on .............Wed Oct 18 23:23:23 2000
Expires on .............Thu Oct 19 02:45:15 2006
Record last updated on .Sun Jun 26 16:38:53 2005

Administrative Contact:
RFJason
Jason Fortuny
726 Kirkland Cir
Apt C203
Kirkland, WA
98033, US
(425)5765417
(425)5765417
RFJason@Hotmail.com

Technical Contact:
RFJason
Jason Fortuny
726 Kirkland Cir
Apt C203
Kirkland, WA
98033, US
(425)5765417
(425)5765417
RFJason@Hotmail.com

That's not precisely private information, and additionally, I second the other response to your post. Fuck this guy. Additionally, for the copy-cat, cosmicjohn, who lives in Portland (my home town), and whom I will personally spit on if I ever see him walking down the street, this is his livejournal:

http://cosmicjohn.livejournal.com/

Very sparse information on this piece of human feces, but he's also a Wikipedia editor, though it doesn't look like he does much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jogabbeyjr

Fuck both of these guys.

It's from his blog but I'm suspicious of that entry because it seems to be the only place left on his blog or website with his info. If he's been scrubbing his contact info since the prank, then why did he leave this? Maybe he just forgot it, or maybe it was wrong in the first place. Or maybe it's the number of someone he doesn't like!

Here's the contact info for his domain registration, which was last changed in June.

Jason Fortuny
726 Kirkland Cir, Apt C203
Kirkland, WA 98033
(425)576-5417
RFJason@Hotmail.com

The phone number is disconnected. The address has appeared in other comments.

rfjason:

http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/51420613/25484

In case it's taken down:

The Saga of Jerry and "Wife"

* Official thread

Jerry has already contacted me by e-mail, demanding I remove all traces of him from my post. This appears to be an anonymous reply from him in my LJ: http://rfjason.livejournal.com/410835.html?thread= 7629011#t7629011

Jerry claims he has an open marriage. Can anyone confirm/deny this?

Edit: Update. Jerry and his "wife" contacted me on AIM
Part I: Email conversation with Jerry

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
> You will remove the pictures of me from your stupid craigslist experiment.
> My wife and I have an open relationship, don\'t believe me? Contact her and
> ask her. But you will remove me, you have no right to post this kind of crap
> without first knowing the full details. Here is the bullshit i want you to
> remove: http://rfjason.livejournal.com/410835.html?thread= 7600851..t7600851

From Jason
Why should I?

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
Because I would appreciate it, because my wife and I have an open relationship
and I would never "cheat" on her. Because we play with others to enhance our
own relationship. Because she is fully aware of what goes on. And again
because I'd appreciate it.
I don't want to fight this out with you, I understand why you're doing
this - to husbands that actually cheat, however, I wouldn't do that - my wife
and I are fully participating swingers, now please remove the thread.

From Jason
Well, if anything, this should help you meet MORE people.

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
And it's not the way I want it done. So you have no intentions of removing it
then? That's fine, I'll ignore it and move on with my life.

From Jason
Wait, I thought you were going to sue me?

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
I'll look into all my options, and if I choose legal recourse, it
wouldn't be a
lawsuit. It would be a criminal case, if that didn't work, then I imagine I'd
have to settle for a civil suit. But either way, this is the last time I
communicate with you. I have nothing more to say - by even responding in the
first place I gave you what you want, and that was foolish of me.

Part II: IM Conversation with Jerry

[10:29] JrITadmin69: Just the man I was looking for.
[10:30] RFJason: Hi Jerry. I just replied to your e-mail.
[10:30] JrITadmin69: and i replied to yours
[10:30] JrITadmin69: Look, I understand what you're trying to do with your experiment.
[10:31] JrITadmin69: And I don't take offense, other then that you didn't attempt to get the whole story, and jumped to conclusions.
[10:31] RFJason: I didn't jump to any conclusions.
[10:31] JrITadmin69: And I learned my lesson as well, don't include my face anymore, assuming my wife and i decide to continue with our lifestyle.
[10:31] JrITadmin69: Sure you did, you assumed I was cheating on my

In case it's taken down:

The Saga of Jerry and "Wife"

* Official thread

Jerry has already contacted me by e-mail, demanding I remove all traces of him from my post. This appears to be an anonymous reply from him in my LJ: http://rfjason.livejournal.com/410835.html?thread= 7629011#t7629011

Jerry claims he has an open marriage. Can anyone confirm/deny this?

Edit: Update. Jerry and his "wife" contacted me on AIM
Part I: Email conversation with Jerry

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
> You will remove the pictures of me from your stupid craigslist experiment.
> My wife and I have an open relationship, don\'t believe me? Contact her and
> ask her. But you will remove me, you have no right to post this kind of crap
> without first knowing the full details. Here is the bullshit i want you to
> remove: http://rfjason.livejournal.com/410835.html?thread= 7600851..t7600851

From Jason
Why should I?

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
Because I would appreciate it, because my wife and I have an open relationship
and I would never "cheat" on her. Because we play with others to enhance our
own relationship. Because she is fully aware of what goes on. And again
because I'd appreciate it.
I don't want to fight this out with you, I understand why you're doing
this - to husbands that actually cheat, however, I wouldn't do that - my wife
and I are fully participating swingers, now please remove the thread.

From Jason
Well, if anything, this should help you meet MORE people.

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
And it's not the way I want it done. So you have no intentions of removing it
then? That's fine, I'll ignore it and move on with my life.

From Jason
Wait, I thought you were going to sue me?

From Jerry@emailaddress.com
I'll look into all my options, and if I choose legal recourse, it
wouldn't be a
lawsuit. It would be a criminal case, if that didn't work, then I imagine I'd
have to settle for a civil suit. But either way, this is the last time I
communicate with you. I have nothing more to say - by even responding in the
first place I gave you what you want, and that was foolish of me.

Part II: IM Conversation with Jerry

[10:29] JrITadmin69: Just the man I was looking for.
[10:30] RFJason: Hi Jerry. I just replied to your e-mail.
[10:30] JrITadmin69: and i replied to yours
[10:30] JrITadmin69: Look, I understand what you're trying to do with your experiment.
[10:31] JrITadmin69: And I don't take offense, other then that you didn't attempt to get the whole story, and jumped to conclusions.
[10:31] RFJason: I didn't jump to any conclusions.
[10:31] JrITadmin69: And I learned my lesson as well, don't include my face anymore, assuming my wife and i decide to continue with our lifestyle.
[10:31] JrITadmin69: Sure you did, you assumed I was cheating on my

LOL come visit my blog!!! http://dikky.livejournal.com/734.html
I am trollocomedian DIKKY heartiez of norway LOL death 2 gnaa

I have written extensively on this problem at my Blog. I use Morphix which is a system for building live cd's. They provide a core and you build on top of it. I have lightly modified the core (with a custom kernel and custom modules). Then you create a main module (which is just an xml file of debian packages). Morphix tools work out all the dependiences etc. I do all of my development in VmWare as it gives me a separate process space/machine to do all my work in. I will be presenting on it this Saturday at the Cerroitos Lug and the SFVLUG. It will be recorded and I will put the (video)podcast online. Along with notes and configs. Its mostly on VmWare but also how I am using it for development work. Feel free to reply to this post with questions and I will be more then happy to answer them. So vmware+morphix(highly customized) = great results. I am also building an appliance (an exchange replacement with MAPI support). See my signature for links.

I posted some first impressions about running GNOME on Compiz here.

The bottom line is that not all eye candy is created equal, but some of the features really have a positive effect on the user experience. I for one (heh) am looking forward to seeing a compositing window manager integrated tightly into GNOME.

http://georgelazenby.livejournal.com/195942.html

So hey, Thanks.

Good riddance to M$, RIAA, MPAA, infiltrator Matthew Garrett:

Matthew Garrett is one of the M$, RIAA, MPAA, infiltrators described in the above post.

He has deleted the copy of the above article on M$ infiltrators from the main body of his blog, so that it will not attract the attention it deserves.

It is now a "(Screened Post)". Look for yourself: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/66647.html

When the article was first posted he collapsed the thread to hide it in a link that most would not click (previous to this the thread had been flat, ie, all posts were displayed).

Because he hid the article in this way, I posted it again to the main body of the thread, where it would attract attention, so he just deleted it.

Clearly, Matthew Garrett is one of the M$, RIAA, MPAA, infiltrators described in the post that he deleted.

Nil ubi sub ubi would be more appropriate for a Rockstar game. After all, the game also has a "Hot Coffee" rap video. Goes something like magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter!)

This is neither the time or place for people to ask a Why? to RMS about free software. Sure, it was a place to ask a Why GPL v3 or about DRM licensing or patent protections, but the questions that were asked was almost total bullshit. Yet again, I'm not speaking from personal presence there - I've just talked to people on irc and read their blogs.

Was one of those weeks when I wasn't in Bangalore ... but RMS was in Kerala (where I am now) and the discussions here were more practical than those quoted from Blr. The ones here were really about the freedoms and mostly by students or political decision makers versus the armchair activists from the software industry.

I'd have no problem seeing the ad-based web dissapear. The stuff that remains would be made by people who actually give a damn about what they're doing, people who are willing to suffer a little bit and actually give up something to make a website they want to create.

D00d, I just read the first page of your blog. If that's the kind of content you're talking about, y'know, from those people who give a damn and are suffering, then I'll take friggin' Uncle Miltie and the Texaco Star Theatre. Or Hallmark card poetry, even. Reality TV. FM radio. Anything...

jee-zus!

Actually it is pretty easy to make your own printed T-Shirts with whatever design you want. I used these directions and have made several of my own designs.

They did cut him a check for $10,000.

At the end of the tour Peter explains to me: "Now I tell you a few spoilers, but that's ok. *spoilers removed* But now we have this new spaceship you just saw. The Atlantis crew finds it in an underground hangar under the volcano. And now guess what this baby is called!" "??????" "You talked that much about this old German SciFi show in all these years that we called the ship ORION. " "What, really?" "I thought you'd like to hear that and now, thanks to your lovely present, I can finally see what they talk about on that show!"

I'm really touched that the only German SciFi cult spaceship comes to honour once again because of this. Of course Martina and me take photos of us in the control chair of the Orion. The "new" Orion is not an elegant flying saucer, but it's a big Ancient battleship that looks a bit like a star destroyer from Star Wars.

"Here's a small technical tip: The original Orion had a weapon called 'overkill' that destroyed even asteroids. I could get you the pencil sharpener they used as the control button for this weapon on the show. What do you think?" "Robert, your commitment is great, but I really don't think that today's audience would buy that!"

In the episode itself the scene looks like this: McKay wants to give the ship a name, but Sheppard interrupts him. "We will not call it the Enterprise! [...] We'll call it the Orion."

Wow!

What I've heard in the Linux community is to stay away from anything ATI if you plan to use it with Linux. Too bad really, because they really do make nice cards.

What part of MA? Some towns have already made changes. There are a few more details here and there online, too.

How a server got compromised, and ran a Paypal scam site for two days, more technical explanation of what happened, and how to (and how not to) make Yahoo block the accounts involved. Of course, the idea that compromised machine can in any way be trusted, sounds like one of the stupidest things ever thought up by a human.

How a server got compromised, and ran a Paypal scam site for two days, more technical explanation of what happened, and how to (and how not to) make Yahoo block the accounts involved. Of course, the idea that compromised machine can in any way be trusted, sounds like one of the stupidest things ever thought up by a human.

How a server got compromised, and ran a Paypal scam site for two days, more technical explanation of what happened, and how to (and how not to) make Yahoo block the accounts involved. Of course, the idea that compromised machine can in any way be trusted, sounds like one of the stupidest things ever thought up by a human.

The Forge booth was awesome this year (full disclosure: I worked the Indie Press Revolution chunk of it, running sales). The main draw, as ever, is that half of the booth is taken up by demo space with 10-20 minute tasters of all the games on sale run by the game designers, and the booth is hopping all convention long.

Although alone among exhibitors to publish sales results, the idea that the Forge came in third after WW and WotC is alas, conjecture contested by Paizo and probably Palladium - although who knows for sure? What we can say for sure is that year-on-year, the market for creator-owned independently published roleplaying games is growing, and shows no sign of slowing down.

Also, the games were fucking awesome this year - old and new. New titles like Burning Empires, 1001 Nights and Don't Rest Your Head sat deservedly proudly alongside the stalwarts of new gaming like Sorcerer, Dogs in the Vineyard and Breaking the Ice.

- Alexander

As referenced by a gamasutra article, this is not a new policy on walmart's part. In fact, they have many other games available for pre-order that have ratings pending. Bully was made an example of, most likely because of the lawsuit. The point is that walmart is accepting preorders for unrated games, but the article summary fails to point out this crucial point that actually makes the issue a controversy...

I have a couple of Blogger blogs in my LJ friends list, thanks to the magic of syndicated LJ accounts.

More and more blog packages that you run on your own servers have OpenID plugins, but as far as I know 6A's TypePad is the only hosted solution that has it built in. Funny, that.

Maybe this?

http://jwz.livejournal.com/543178.html

Hamsters, not gerbils, but close enough perhaps...

I don't know about "real trekkies" being offended. I was pointed to the site by Diane Duane's blog

My reply to the main themes in the comments are here: http://funos.livejournal.com/367820.html

customers_suck threatens to get way funnier.

What, no breakfast at 11:30? I demand to speak to your manager!
I don't think you want--
I'm the customer, I'm always right, and I get speak to your manager now!
Okay, but I warned you...
BEEP BEEP FREE BEATINGS FOR MEAT BEINGS

Suddenly 'Hoboken, NJ versus Giant Robot' gets a lot funnier.