everything but the girl

I'm still boggling at the 195 icon slots I now have - and I need some icon recs.

Do you have an icon that you think I should add? Show it to me, please!

Do you have an icon-maker that you fangirl madly? Link me to him/her please!

Do you have icons that you've made that you think I'd enjoy? I'd love to see them! I usually browse LJ with images off so I miss a lot of wonderful stuff, ordinarily. Need to make up for lost time!

In other news, literally - I was in today's Washington Post, talking about Beedle the Bard. If you're wondering, Harry loved the book, and finished it before I could!

Elvis Costello's albums are now finally on iTunes! You can get them via this link - and I'm listening to Every Day I Write The Book for the first time in how many years?

: happy sigh

I wanted to show off my two new FLAIL icons - the Heroes one is by lay_of_luthien and the Supernatural one is by nyaubaby and I am so so squeeful over both of them! ( They're behind the cut because the Heroes one is spoilery for the most recent ep... )
And in honor of the cancellation of Gilmore Girls, which I never watched in the first place but which I have managed to acquire what I think of as "pre-series Peter Petrelli/Sam Winchester, thank you very much" icons, I've added this one too:


Yes, two Milo Fighting People icons in one week. It's a coincidence, isn't it?

I've also been talking with robertstandring about the SpellCast Live Podcast that we're having two weeks from tomorrow night at Phoenix Rising - you can still send in an audition and get cast in advance - but we're also going to be doing some casting at PR itself - Robert is going to announce a time & place (or two) early next week.

Also, the FA meet-up may be moving from the Acme Oyster Bar to the Sheraton, so FA people can be on-site to deal with some SpellCast and Artists & Authors Night things - more info when we know for certain.

In non-fandom things, I was very amused to see the NY Times use the word frenemy to describe the relationship between Peter Parker and Harry Osborne in Spiderman 3. No, the word isn't in the Merriam Webster dictionary yet, so I guess that the Times now considers the presence of a term in Wikipedia to be sufficient grounds for them to use it? Go, Times! You're ever so very cute!

And in a non-fandom-with-implications-for-fandom thing, I wanted to write about the situation at Digg.com a bit.

Some of you may've heard what Digg and a few other news aggregation-cum-social networking sites did this past week. They decided to allow postings of the code that can be used to crack the encryption on HD DVDs (and I think Blu-Ray too, but I'm not sure). You can read the BBC's article sumamrizing the situation here, or read it on ZDNet or see the Digg link-posting that has pushing 6000 "diggs" at this point on this page - it links to a youtube posting that has the key in video and text form.

I'm not gutsy enough to risk my LJ account by reposing the code - I'm still a little paranoid. But I really admire what Digg and other sites have done, and I find some parallels - and also some nonparallels - between the situation at Digg and the way a lot of fandomers look to The Powers That Be, which are some of the same people/entities - the major media producers and distributors. ( Babbling about law and social networking and the internet behind the cut... )

Squee! fleshdress has allowed FA to use her amazing new photo-inspired icons, so we've added them into FA for anyone with more than 25 posts.

We've also added icons for Phoenix Rising, Sectus and Prophecy, and one for Enlightening 2007 is coming soon.

Now, who's going to Collectormania next week?