and I shall write them a firmly-worded letter

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Dear fic-hating snobs: you can hate all you want, but step the hell off Gregory Maguire while you do it. Thank you.

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Dear defendants of fic-as-hobby: please stop comparing fanfic to needlecraft. They are not the same thing, at all. Sure, they can both be hobbies. But one is an exploration of the boundaries of fictional worlds, and a contribution to an ever-changing, pretty much infinite collective mythology. The other is an exploration of yarn. I have knit in the past. Believe me, it's different.

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I think this may have been the overall worst week of regular-season TV since 2004. Wait. Actually, come to think of it, make that 1995. I'm using X-Files' "Anasazi" or thereabouts as a reference point. Basically, it hasn't been this bad since invisible zoo animals tried to trample Mulder and Scully. In my opinion, anyway. :(

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That said, it just makes me love fandom that much more. You guys rule. We've had such tough times these past few weeks, and yet I have seen such amazing courage, wisdom, humour, flexibility and strength from so many of you.

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My family and I have been working our way through Michael Apted's Up Series one disc at a time. We received 28 Up the other day, but I think we're all too scared to watch it. It is so hard to watch some of these kids spiral out of control by stages, knowing this all happened 30 years ago and there's nothing you can do about it. Neil, what will have become of you when I put the disc in? :\

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her account got hekcad and it was super easy to hack Facebook accounts and when I told her she was completely wrong she was rather surprised.I told her hacking Facebook is tough, they got top of the line security, there isn't a lot of people that will hack Facebook, I said 95% of people don't hack Facebook to gain access to a user account they hack the individual via key-loggers and other malicious software, its much easier to create a windows virus that scans for keystrokes then it is to sit there and hack some random persons Facebook account.The mis-conception happens when the unknowing user phrases there frustrations by saying They hekcad Facebook and gained access to my account when most of the time they just didn't log out of Facebook on there computer or they had a key-logger installed.Those are just small examples but my overall point is it doesn't reduce your security when you show public user-names via a login form it just gives the illusion of reduced security. Any real web developer will take the time to put in place a ton of validation checks on the back end systems to make sure its really secure.