If you’re looking for refreshing non-alcoholic drinks for your Pagan ritual or circle, these 19th century recipes might be helpful, and they’re very easy to make. Getting the quantities right can be a bit tricky, so I’d recommend experimenting before serving them to other people.

The Beast is an alternate reality game developed by Microsoft to promote the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Entry points to the game embedded into the film's promotion centered on the fictional Jeanine Salla and the death of her friend Evan Chan. In 2142, Jeanine learns that Evan was murdered and her investigation uncovers a network of murders of humans and artificial intelligences. The game launched on March 8, 2001, and continued running past its initially scheduled end date on June 29, the film's release date.

Players were led through a network of websites created by Warner Bros. registered to fake names, and further clues were given in subsequent promotional materials and events for the film. The game drew a large, tight-knit player base who created online groups dedicated to the game, most prominently the Yahoo! Group Cloudmakers. The Beast was described as "unprecedented even by Hollywood standards" and is considered among the most influential early alternate reality games.

Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals.

UGH also bottom of the article says Reddit is also selling user data to AI companies

Part of the fun of journaling is seeing your past journals, and admiring the progress that you’ve made. To do that, I built a little “On this day” feature that simply surfaces old journal entries that match today’s date.

Very cool!

With the introduction of the new built-in Obsidian Bases feature, detecting and listing orphaned images is now easier than ever. No extra plugins required. The attached file Orphaned Image Report.zip (657 Bytes) contains an Obsidian Bases file Orphaned Images Report.base with two intuitive views:

Condensed Table View: See all orphaned images in a sortable, filterable table.
Cards View: Visualize orphaned images as cards, making it easy to preview/rename/delete images.

Simply download and unzip the attached file to your vault and start housekeeping.
You can modify the filter expression to tune the report to your specific needs.

A radically inclusive Jane Austen event. Made for and by fans.

July 19-20, 2025!

Looks like old school buttons!

This here's a page to hold sets of Mood Icons, which can be used with weblogs and the suchlike. At the moment, hmm, it has three sets. The intention is to create these to be used with LiveJournal.

Doctor Who themed icons and mood themes!

This is a HUGE archive of livejournal icons I saved/collected between 2006 to 2011. It's definitely an internet time capsule of sorts. (I used to collage these into pages to decorate my 3-ring binders for school.) These were my first introductions to graphics editing, super early internet jokes, and things that would evolve into aesthetic moodboards that would later appear on tumblr.

How to block certain topics/keywords on DW

If you want to give people another options from leaving a comment...

Some shortcuts to using helpful tools on Dreamwidth!

Someone on IRC was talking about the origin of the name Dreamwidth Studios. I think this has never been posted before, so I went and dug up some old emails. These are all from March and very early April of 2008. I pulled out relevant sections, too, so they're slightly diced up.

Anyway, I hope people enjoy this. This all took place on the "Project Crazy" mailing list, which is what I called it. Because really, we all had jobs and lives, this was kind of an insane proposition. Yet here we are today.

So, this is basically fifteen years' of trial-and-error learning on how to make dreamwidth posts that will produce good comment discussions involving lots of people. After fifteen years, I am at the point where if I'm sitting at home feeling depressed and in need of human conversation, I can make a DW post and have enough comment notifications to keep me in ego boost for several days. And a lot of what makes this work is just fairly simple strategies that I wish more people knew.

For the curious, icons are used in a very similar way to how reaction images and gifs are used on Tumblr.

I know a lot of people who don't visit DW very often because they think it isn't active. Well, it isn't Twitter or Tumblr, but there's plenty going on! So I thought I would compile a list of active comms that can help fandom peeps put some life into their DW reading lists and keep them apprised of upcoming events.

from sharpiefan, posted 2018

This is my attempt at compiling a masterlist of masterlists of communities on Dreamwidth. Obviously this will always be a work in progress and I'm going to add lists as soon as I find them.

Has a lot of tutorials on specific Dreamwidth things, with guides for people coming from other social media platforms