LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

tags: aids vgift red ribbon fundraiser, blurb, livejournal: the first decade, lj_photophile poll

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

location: Jumping out of a perfectly good plane mood: dirty music: Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction tags: mogilefs, upgrade, userpics

School Stuff:
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
- term paper.
; 2 pages Tuesday.
; 2 pages Wednesday.
; 2 pages Thursday.
; 2 pages Friday.
= 8 pages.
+ revise Saturday.
+ final drafting Sunday.
TURN IN MONDAY.
- FINAL, WEDNESDAY. 8:00 - 10:00 AM.
ALGEBRA.
- online homework, DUE DEC. 11TH.
- QUIZ, FRIDAY. 8:27 - 9:50.
- FINAL, MONDAY. 8:00 - 10:00 AM.
- retake test FRIDAY. Get your passport because OMG THEY NEED PICTURE ID~ and just do it on Monday. :|
ENGLISH 101.
- read "Dream Children" and analyze for DEC. 3RD.
- Literary Analysis Essay due MONDAY, 12:00 PM.
- retake missed quiz TUESDAY (?).
- take-home quiz, DUE MONDAY.
OTHER.
- register for next semester.

Roleplay Stuff:
-- apply for Kaworu. (0% -- Due Dec. 7th)

Art Stuff:
-- Christmas Commissions.
- 10 chibis for S.
- 5 sketches for S.
- 2 sketches for Y.
- 2 sketches for F.

Health Stuff:
- ultrasound dec. 16th (lol I'm not pregnant).

tags: list

I want at least one more person in order to run it.

http://community.livejournal.com/dragon_swap/59593.html

backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're high on adventurous spirit, but low on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about inexpensive hotels and youth hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!