ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH

Somebody on my Friends list is CLICKING AT ME.

It is, in fact, making the "your hard disk is about to shit itself" noises, to the point where I frantically backed up everything that had changed since my last major backup, and when the noises stopped when I shut down Firefox, I completed the backup and got suspicious.

The noises get louder and quieter when I change the volume? Right. Not a HDD failure. The noises only show on my Friends page - right, not a Firefox thing, or, rather, not ONLY a Firefox thing.

Why the fuck is it doing that? Has somebody managed to find a way to stick sounds in a livejournal post?

EDIT: ARGH AND NOW IT HAS STOPPED AND I DON'T KNOW WHO DID IT I WILL KILL YOU ALL.

Here, have kittens.

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White Star Line names new captain of Titanic, announces plan to finish voyage.

(Headline stolen from here, which has much more in the vein.)

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Navy veteran David Miller said that when he checked into the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, he didn’t realize he would get a hard sell for Christian fundamentalism along with treatment for his kidney stones.

Miller, 46, an Orthodox Jew, said he was repeatedly proselytized by hospital chaplains and staff in attempts to convert him to Christianity during three hospitalizations over the past two years.

He said he went hungry each time because the hospital wouldn’t serve him kosher food, and the staff refused to contact his rabbi, who could have brought him something to eat.

Miller, an Iowa City resident and former petty officer third class who spent four years in the Navy, outlined his complaints at a news conference in Des Moines on Thursday. The event was sponsored by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an activist group based in Albuquerque, N.M.

He described the Iowa City facility as an institution permeated by government sponsorship of fundamentalist Christianity and unconstitutional discrimination against Jews.

And today, I steal from dashing

Warning: Source journal is not work-safe.

Part the first: Cute things!


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And today, I steal from dashing

Warning: Source journal is not work-safe.

Part the second: strange things!



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7th grader suspended from school for having haircut that is "too short"

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So there's a Japanese Catholic hospital.

They don't like abortion, predictably, but they have a relatively sensible take on it for Catholics: rather than just working to ban it, they try to actually address the causes of abortion and came up with a novel solution they hoped would reduce both the number of people who want abortions *and* the number of babies who die from being abandoned.

Their solution: "The Stork's Cradle", a place where unwanted newborns could be dropped off anonymously - allowing parents to have their child adopted, and hopefully reducing the number of abandoned babies left in dangerous places, or where they would not be found in time.

It opened last Thursday.

On the first day of operation, they also had their first drop-off: A toddler, approximately three years old, who was only able to tell the police that he'd come there with "daddy", that he'd taken the train with his daddy to the city and that he really didn't know where home was, or what his daddy's name is.