Dirty Bathroom Flirter

Double standards with erotica/porn magazines

2009-08-22T21:03:02Z

(here's a little pimping)

Recently I heard of Filament magazine and about their struggle to get on a market as an erotica magazine for (heterosexual) women (or gay men).

The magazine is not 'eye feast' only - it also has intelligent articles with selected advertisments (they claim so). These are the previews of issue 1. On the website it says:

Filament does
intelligent and interesting articles
images of men made for the female gaze
high-quality writing and design

Filament doesn't do
fashion and cosmetics
diets
celebrity gossip

GTFO Cosmo.

The biggest struggle they had, was to publish photos of men in aroused state, i.e. with erected penises and to get a good publishers with good printers.

I was wondering why is it such a problem when there are gay porn magazines with erected penises on the market? But then I got an answer from the editor and she said that those magazines have good printers and distributors (and a market for it!) and are sold in sex shops.

Personally, I love erotica and I don't have anything against porn, either (although, when it comes to photos, I prefer erotica rather than gynaecological pornography), let there be porny magazines with naked women, if they are so keen on taking their clothes off but the double standard in publishing fucking annoys me. That's the problem.
There are naked women all around - sports magazines, daily gossip newspapers...you see boobs everywhere! There is even a campaign to shut down infamous Page 3. But when there's women's magazine to be published, to satisfy that part of the market (because, you know, women make more than 50 % of world's population...) the doors are closing and you are met with the wall. Why not for women too?

Take a look at this. Btw, this is the 'uncovered' cover. Talking about double standards...Naked female body is just like a t-shirt - so common and people feel comfortable with it. But when there's something different and fresh...SHOCK!

I was reading the comments on Guardian article and was disappointed to see people (even women) mocking the idea and not taking it seriously, let alone supporting it. We live in modern times, with women's emancipation, rights, we are supposed to have all kinds of freedoms, why not sexual ones too? And why are women not loud enough about it?

This last Saturday I went to Angel (London area) where there's erotica and sex shop called Adultworld that sells the magazine and was ready to buy it. I was actually proud of myself to get inside without feeling uneasy and uncomfortable asking for female erotica magazine, just chatting casually with a sales lady while surrounded by dildos, collars and whips. :D But the woman told me they didn't get it yet. So I will be going back.

If you can, support it, by either linking to it or buying it yourself. They are also on LJ - they set up a LJ community for reasearch of what women find attractive, it's called The Female Gaze. And there is an official journal for a magazine where you can talk to the editor, read news about the mag etc.where you can talk to the editor, read news about the mag etc.</span></span>

HP: HBP!! spoilers

2009-07-25T20:19:44Z

I went to the cinema yesterday, alone, to see the new film. I got reeeeally excited at the start and was actually glad that there were no trailers :P

I admit I don't remember HBP book really well (details I mean) so I was kinda confused with some scenes...The coffee shop in the underground? As I recall, Dumbledore came to Harry's place and kicked Dursley's arse for not being nice to Harry...or I imagined it? Burning Burrow? Also, shoelaces? (at this point whole room went something between "ugh" "argh" and "ew". :D)

And Draco's cabinet testing with apples and birds? And wasn't Harry supposed to be petrified during Dumbledore's murder? (*sniffle*) *scratch scratch* And even though Bellatrix is supposed to be nuts, she's a bit too dramatic...I dunno. Overall, there should be much more emotions involved :/

I was actually surprised how much stuff they put in the film but I am always unhappy for the stuff that didn't make it...:P

And OMG inferi totally looked like Gollum!!! First Dementors and now Gollum? Oh come on HP producers, lay off the LOTR...

I must say that I had lots of fun - the film had some funny scenes: I giggled like nuts at Ron's qualifications scenes and love potion rection. Oh, and Harry high on Felix Felicis ehehehe :D And 10 galleons for being F&G's brother!!! ahahahahaha Not to mention Cormac's finger lickin' :P In a way, for a moment, they were typical teenagers...

But I think somehow the main character of this film turned out to be Draco...emotions and his behaviour, they were somehow strongest...I am disappointed they didn't show Sectumsempra in action... :((

Ok, this is first, quickly typed impression, because I'm still musing over it...

P.S. I wonder if the film crew made chucks part of Harry's outfit or they just left Dan wear what he wants? :D

Harry Potter cast stuff

2009-07-04T21:14:52Z

1. Dan the Man - Guardian interview with Daniel Radcliffe (of Harry P films, if you don't know him, at least you'd know of HP films :P) It's a long and nice interview, talking about various topics, his interests, opinions and views in life, actually giving insight into his character. Something you can't really tell from taboloids and papparazzi photographs...I think he'll be 20 this month or so, and he seems to be honest, decent and mature person. Maybe it's all an act, just for public image, but who knows...Where he got me is: "I'd love to play a drag queen or transvestite, but not just because of the costumes. Wait, what am I saying? Yes, because of the costumes! If the script was good - I wouldn't just do it because I got to dress up.Although I maintain that I look good with eye make-up. And I'm not going to be an emo kid, so the only other option is drag queen."</li> :D :D :D And from what I've read in papers and online, I think he's got good music taste, one more reason to like him.

2. Oh and did you know Tom (Felton) is on Twitter? The other day he updated with something like "I am ridiculously hot!!!" and I thought, "wow, that guy is so full of himself" but when I read other updates I realized he's talking about the weather. :P

3. I watched Jason Isaacs on Jonathan Ross' show, where he said Madam Gaga instead of Lady, I totally cracked up. :P And when he started talking about Jackie Chan!
At 5.25!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1caP2Iwoj4c

4. I found amazing HP art by this Croatian guy! He's absolutely brilliant!

Harry vs. Voldemort
The Malfoys

Lolcats are everywhere, I'm telling you

2009-05-04T20:33:37Z

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

XD

Jungle book Lucius O.o

2009-05-03T22:30:36Z

Ok, so I recently watched The Jungle Book (yeah, shut up) and when the scene with Shere Khan (the tiger) came I gaped like a fish and started giggling hysterically. Why? Because the voice reminded me of Lucius (Jason Isaacs)!!!!

Wait for 1:32

Slash is calling...

2009-02-02T22:03:12Z

Not sure if anyone is going to read this, but yeah...

Um, yeah I'm alive. I moved to London in October...At the moment I'm reccing fics on crack_broom! :D Weeell, nothing new to say. I was reading hd_holidays fics and I must say there were some fantastic fics! I wish holds would be 2 times a year...It's hard to wait for another year...

Oh if you know of any kind of slash gathering or con, let me know :D (damn, why is now that it's so close and possible to attend, Sectus 2009 cancelled?!?!) :((

Also, little thing I saw in London's Soho ;)

Byes!

My fave fics ♥

2008-08-19T19:48:45Z

I'm making a list of my favorite fics so I can have them all in one place. I couldn't be arsed to make links right now, but soon. Also, I'll update this list with more fics ;)

Drop dead gorgeous by Maya
Agnus Dei by silentauror
Test of a character by silentauror
Promises to keep by silentauror
War Wounds by silentauror
Old City Jasmine by silentauror
A house with a blue door by silentauror
A House with a White Picket fence by silentauror
Left my heart/Surrender the Grey by Emma Grant
Sometimes they burn by Emma Grant
Things that seem by Maeglin Yedi
One night at the ministry by Maeglin Yedi
Underwater light by Maya
The Veela Enigma by jennavere
Harry Potter and the Inconvenient condition by Mirabella
Change my world by Charlotte Sometimes
Gay Aurors by Charlotte Sometimes
How to Shag Your Most Hated Enemy...by stellabelle
Blind leading the blind by sansa
The Misadventures of Draco Malfoy, Ferret by sabershadowcat
Transfigurations by Resonant
A thousand beautiful things by Geoviki
Blue Vase by Ivy Blossom
Unintended by Furiosity
From the brink of sunlight by Furiosity
Goodbye to Yesterday by Furiosity
Let's pretend the war is over by pir8fancier
Seeker to Seeker by BaronNomaw
Freudian Slip by jennavere
Clear as mud by scoradh
Sin for me by furiosity
Five ways in which Draco Malfoy ignored the advice of Blaise Zabini (or how to bag a Gryffindor) by malfoypotter
Inconsolable, or How Harry Potter Stopped H8ing and Learned to Love Video Games by novembersnow
For the public good by blamebrampton
All's fair in love and wards
Alohomora Society - A Young Wizard’s Guide to Etiquette
Before we get too old
DIY messiah
Learning to breathe
Master Work
Mend a broken heart
Once upon the time, yesterday
Renassaince
Potter-Malfoy problem
To ignite
The white dragon
Room with a view
Slytherella
With this ring
Underneath the Underneath
A remedy for all seasons
Welcome to the Broom Closet by incapricious
Inconsolable, or how Harry Potter stopped h8ing and started loving video games
Icarus Rising
Spinner's end
Let's dance to joy division by femmequixotic
What You Do With Your Life, A.H.K.B.C.B. (After the Hero Kills the Batshit Crazy Bastard)
Catch me if I fall
Greenhouse lessons by dysonrules
One Harry Potter please (if possible Seduced and Ready?) by faithwood
Blood and Brimstones by calanthe_fics
Hissy Fit by dysonrules
Black coffee on a lonely night by femmequixotic
Darkstar by furiosity
Don't Let's Stop by i_l0ve_my_az
Draco Malfoy, it's your lucky day by faithwood
Warning: Sex Toys, Cigarettes, and Slytherins by Noeon
http://noe-fic.livejournal.com/9718.html
Says magpie to the morning (Sorrow, take your own advice)
Crossing the channel by tsosh
Savage by marguerite_26
Give chase by tray_la_la
Big dick, come quick by calanthe_fics

HP: HBP Trailer!!!!

2008-08-03T13:57:05Z

OMG OMG OMG

I was away from internet last few days and saw it just now....aaaaaaaaaa!! Can't decide is it too soon or too late...I wanna watch it, but it reminds me that there is only one left then...:(

End of stealing copyrighted work on the internet?

2008-07-08T19:21:57Z

There's new thingy in the spotlight called TinEye.

It is photo searching engine that works on pixel recognition (if I got it right) and searches for certain photo everywhere on internet.

Here's live demo to understand better:

<lj user="andreanna" taking commissions!! Go get something!

2008-06-28T20:22:52Z

Wonderful artist andreanna is taking commissions!! Unfortunately I don't have di nero at the moment, but when I do...;)

Commission info: HERE

deep exhale

2008-06-22T12:23:09Z

Ok now that the stinging passed (not completely) and I calmed down I'll post about this.

So Turks kicked Croatia out of competition. And on what stupid motherfucking lucky way. There was 2 hours (with extra time) of game without goal. In last minutes of extra time, Croatia scored, people happy that they couldn't be happier (us of course). And as I said, it was last minute, so I don't know why judge Rosetti (who seemed very fair judge during the game, if I may say) didn't whistle the end (you could see on clock that the time was OUT, OVER, and in that practically non existing time Turks scored!!!

FFFFFFFFFuck! I couldn't believe that shit!! Bilić was pissed off and yelling at another judge who didn't lift the sign for change (Bilić wanted to switch players)

I hope Germans kick Turks' asses.

Stupid judge!!!! If he ever comes on vacation to Croatia he won't have good time *killer mood*. I hope he gets spanked by his mum (she's Croatian - that also explains why he's tall...:P)

*sigh* I hope we kick ass on World cup, Bilić certainly did some changes, and by then we'll have Eduardo and newbie players will be more trained. Also, our goalkeeper must train HARD. And just in case, they should work on penalties.

I still love then nonetheless. ♥ You were great boys!

Personality test everyone is doing :P

2008-06-09T19:55:57Z

Maaan, my personality badge has ugliest color - of poo! Why it isn't purple or pink or green...:(

Fire in my building!! Eeeek!

2008-06-09T19:52:22Z

OMG it stinks so baaaad!!

I was in my room doing something, cleaning, and I felt a smell. I hurried to the kitchen, sure that I left something on the stove (it often happens to me that I put milk for cappuccino on and go back to room and forget about it) so when I came and inspected situation nothing was there. Not my flat, but smell was sensed well.

I went back to my room and later mother came and in panic asked me is that smell coming from our flat (again, she knows about my habit of leaving milk on the stove) and she thought I did it. I was a bit worried because smell was getting stronger and stronger and I knew it was someone's lunch got burnt, but mother kept saying that burnt lunch smells that bad.
But then I heard people in hallways shouting "Where's burning?!". I ran to the door opened them, and holy crap, smoke in the hallway!! I live in 10 stores building and I'm on the 7th floor, it would be nasty if there's fire!

Luckily someone called firemen and I was pissed at my mother for telling me it's nothing and that everything is ok. It wasn't ok!! Fire was on the lower floor and we'd be stuck in case of fire. Our lift can't take more than 4 people, and there's 36 flats!

grrr

It's been 2 hours since firemen and it still stinks so bad! It's hot outside and I need open windows but I can't open them widely because of the smell!! uuugh

Internet censorship

2008-06-08T16:49:09Z

Half an hour ago I was checking some video sites, including Vimeo, Viddler, Revver and Veoh. I have account on all of them (but not uploaded videos on all). I was unpleasantly surprised to see this message on Veoh:

Veoh is no longer available in CROATIA.

W.T.F.?

I didn't get any message about it! What if I had videos uploaded there?! That's bad bad service.

I asked iflie can she see it, she said yes, but not videos tagged with Croatia. Finally she found Veoh forum where I saw the reason.

Someone asked what happened and this is official response by Veoh's staff:

"Unfortunately Veoh will be ending service in your country due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining markets when we have the highest concentration of viewers."
(yes, with all grammar mistakes)

And then later I found a topic with a list of blocked countries - 165 of them. Mostly 3rd world countries in Asia and Africa but lots lots of them from Europe and South America too.

I personally find it offending, but most importantly I find it business suicide. Every user/customer/viewer is important, no matter how poor/rich their country is and no matter how many users in that country are.

That is not first case of internet censorship of course. I think most of the people know about Flickr not being available in Iran, China and United Arab Emirates (because of governments) and content filters for Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea (from Flickr's side); Google not being available in China...

Then only yesterday I was faced with blocking. I tried www.hulu.com (movie, video and tv show website), and earlier www.pandora.com (music streaming website) which are available for USA citizens only.

Why is that?! Isn't it better if they have more users? Is politics involved again? I thought that business always overcame politics at least on internet.

Yes I know there are other sites, but some are really good but blocked.

Geeks and techie people are trying to overcome barriers by making different scripts and programs to get behind the shield. I found 2-3 of them but one didn't work, other had some error and third one slooowed down internet badly so the video couldn't be loaded.

*sigh*

Enough of the ranting.

Geeks' revenge will come!! :P

Searching for spirituality, finding (gay) sexuality g

2008-06-07T21:45:04Z

I'm crazy about Stumble Upon and use it frequently.

Not sure if you're familiar with StumbleUpon and how it works: It's something like social bookmarking site, but it finds websites you might like. So you make account, put the topics you're intrested in (sexuality, pornography, food, technology, health, ecology, books, rock...there are lots of them) and then you have SU toolbar on which you have a stumble button, you click on it and it gives you a website someone else found (thinks it's interesting) and tagged it with certain topic. If you like the site it gave you, you put the 'thumb up' if not 'thumb down'. It makes statistics of what sites you liked and didn't like.

Now, I've been reading Seeker To Seeker fic last 2-3 days (taking it slowly :p) and noticed that it's got thumb up (I agree, it's great story, but I was surprised to see fanfiction on SU :D). The thing is...the topic it was put under.

Wicca.

I cracked myself up!! Better topic would be pornogrpahy, fiction, gay-sex than this. Because, although Wicca is connected to Harry Potter (obviously) some poor soul that is searching for some info on wicca and seeking for their religion or spitiruality might find themself reading Harry and Draco shagging each other!! I'd love to see person's face! Priceless. :D
Haha, imagine someone (well, not so clever) thinks that's what wiccans do, so they join them just because of it!! :P

This is great way of promoting fanfiction, actually. So I decided to put all my fave fanart and fanfics on stumble so people can enjoy. :D If it's put online, then it's public and everbody can see it. And SU site doesn't mind: they have BDSM, pornography, gay-sex, lesbian-sex, fetish etc. topics and when stumbling a site for the first time you put is it adult or not, so it's pr0n galore!! :D

Music memmme...again :)

2008-06-05T19:38:27Z

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 (and upload if you want to) songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

gawariel assigned me letter N

Foo Fighters - No way back

Muse - New born

U2 - New year's day

Urban & 4 - Nebo ("Sky")

Prodigy - No good

And 2 bonus! :p

Shout Out Louds - Normandie

Vaya Con Dios - Nah Nah Nah

Hope you liked my choices! :D

LOLcats!

2008-06-04T15:59:16Z

Guys tell me you all know what LOLcats are? And about I Can Has Cheezburger? website? Right?

We'll I'm registered there and few months ago I made my own caption and submitted it but it didn't get featured on their site. Never mind that.

But few days ago I got an email from a guy who is an editor at Gotham Books (part of Penguin I believe) and told me they are making a book about LOLcats in collaboration with ICHC!!!! OMG YAAAYYYAAAYYY!!

But WHY he was contacting me? Because they wanted my permission to use my LOLcat in their book!!!! O.O

And here it is:
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moar funny pictures

And now, some of my LOLcat faves!!!

For Catherine :P

more cat pictures
For all with basic knowledge in browsers

more cat pictures
For Catherine again :P

more cat pictures
This is for me, hahaha

more cat pictures

Me again, :D :D

more cat pictures

for all curly girls

more cat pictures

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you have such family member?

more cat pictures

Bob is something like my Zorzi - he always thinks I can't see him. Bright orange cat.Wwith white tail tip. 6 kg. Right.

more cat pictures

This is for badsex

more cat pictures

Still thinking about it?

more cat pictures

For all Crocs haters

more cat pictures

For Hermione, haha

more cat pictures

Awww

more cat pictures

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Well, they let me drink some beer here and there when I was kid...

more cat pictures

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Zorzi again, just different position

more cat pictures

For everyone who got freaked out of Jaws and is afraid of depths

more cat pictures

Well,Zorzi

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for UFOlogists

more cat pictures

Saviour cat, haha

more cat pictures

Political one ;)

more cat pictures

For clumsy romantics

more cat pictures

This is for Lulu

more cat pictures

For wannabe surfers!

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Hehe, in emergency...

more cat pictures

LOL!

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For all KISS fans

more cat pictures

For all LOTR fans!!

more cat pictures

So true!

more cat pictures

Again, have you got any family members like this?

more cat pictures

For CSI fans!

more cat pictures

LOL!

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I did this with my mum when I was a kid...

more cat pictures

LOL!

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For everyone with bad birthday parties...

more cat pictures

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For everyone who loses their keys

more cat pictures

LOL! hahahaha too good!

more cat pictures

LOL! omg I lmao on this!!

more cat pictures

Fitness!

more cat pictures

For math geeks

more cat pictures

Hahaha!

more cat pictures

for Catherine!

more cat pictures

:D:D

moar funny pictures

Phew! Hope you had laugh!

LOL!

2008-06-04T14:25:19Z

I recently discovered this Facebook group and I joined it right away (partly in spite to few people from my friends list who joined some group which is against Gay parade in my country, so that they know my stands as well! Well, on wacky way :p)

Here's group info:

If Gay Marriage is Good Enough for Dumbledore, it's Good Enough for America

"Young Albus spent years chasing his boyhood friend Grindelwald, harboring a secret love for a man he could not have. He never told Grindelwald how he felt, living as he was in the pre-Stonewall era. Eventually he turned his wand on his heart's desire, defeating him and banishing him to a life sentence in Nurmengard, some wacked out wizard prison. After a lifetime spent afterward battling injustice, inequality, and racits, Dumbledore carried his secret to his grave.

Though he has passed on to cruise King's Cross in the afterlife, Dumbledore would want to know that his death was not in vain. Having spent most of his life battling Voldemort, Albus never had time for pride parades or writing letters to his parliamentarians.

In the spirit of political opportunism, I encourage all people -- even Gypsies -- to make a stand to legalize gay marriage. Those of you in countries that have already approved it, good work! Those of you in countries without running water, you work on that first."

ETA: I just now saw a link on group - to this LJ! hahaha, fandom is everywhere!!

HP: DH - "The Forest Again"

2008-05-27T19:31:29Z

♥ ♥
by wonderful scriblitarius

*sniffle* This is the only chapter that made me cry like a baby...
[my comment: here]

P.S. OMG Harry is so cute here with longer hair!! :B

For all IM addicted people: Digsby!!!

2008-05-20T22:33:50Z

Not sure about you but I have MSN, Gtalk, ICQ and Y!IM contacts. And of course it's pain in the arse to have all those clients opened at the same time - it slows down the comp.
Few weeks ago or so I read on MakeUseOf website this article about Digsby and was intrigued but still didn't try it out. (Btw, here are screenshots)

Well 2 days ago there was a poll on that very same site and Digsby was very high, so I decided to download it and try it out.

It supports even Facebook chat!!

Unfortunately there are things that Digsby doesn't have. Like Window Live Messanger's nudge or option to collect smilies (which is one of my strongest reasons why I love Windows Live Messenger).

It's different and it takes time to get used to it, but it's really practical if you have many contacts. It's still in beta and I hope they'll work on it even more and add more cool features. As the matter of fact, on their official forum they even have Feature Requests thread so it's open to everybody.

And for further customization you can go to this website and download emoticons, skins etc.

I really hope they improve on better and not crowd it with bunch of stupid stuff. I hate to see good thing destroyed or neglected.

My impression in this 2 days is very positive, and I recommend it to everyone!

any photo editing knowers on my flist?

2008-05-03T05:47:17Z

Hey darlings, is there any of you who is decently good with Photoshop or any other image editing program? (I personally have Paint.NET)

I would need little help with editing some of my photos. My friend and I were taking photos (of us, goofing around) but her camera has way too strong flash, so the pics are too light, we are totally washed out. So I wonder how do I make them more natural?

help?

So awesome!! Indian Michael Jackson (+ Queen there somewhere...)

2008-04-30T21:25:44Z

Watch it!

*shakes booty*

My heart is breaking...

2008-04-25T15:13:12Z

My mother is giving away Zorzi...

She already contacted some people, and she is in such a rush to give his away as soon as possible. She said if I don't find him home soon, she'll take him somewhere, in the nature!! How will he survive there!? If he needs to go I want him to be in good family, safe and loved.

Now I'm afraid to leave the house, in fear that when I come back he wouldn't be here anymore.

Just because of stupid hairs and nails...

Every time I look at Zorzi I start crying. I love that silly ginger ball so much...

She was even thinking of giving them both, but she's not sure about Lulu, she loves her more.

If she gives them away, she'll be lonely, they could be her company in older age.

I will never forger her this.

Have you ever seen mammatus clouds!?

2008-04-24T21:26:31Z

I found out about them today and wow, amazing!!

Mammatus (also known as mammatocumulus, meaning "bumpy clouds") is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The name "mammatus" is derived from the Latin mamma (breast), due to the resemblance between the shape of these clouds and human female breasts.
Mammatus are most often associated with the anvil cloud that extends from a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as contrails and volcanic ash clouds. In the United States, sky gazers may be most familiar with the very distinct and more common cumulonimbus mammatus. When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm. These tend to form more often during warm months and over the midwest and eastern portions of the country, and more infrequently over the west and southwest. Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus.

Mammatus may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or semitransparent. Because mammatus occur as a grouping of lobes, the way they clump together can vary from an isolated cluster to a field of mamma that spread over hundreds of kilometers to being organized along a line, and may be composed of unequal- or similarly-sized lobes. The individual mammatus lobe average diameters of 1-3 km and lengths on average of 0.5 km. A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a whole cluster of mamma can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. Their composition is usually mostly ice, but can be a mixture of ice and liquid water or almost entirely liquid water.

Style-modifying internet to suit yourself

2008-04-23T19:28:57Z

Many people I know are using Mozilla Firefox, which is a great browser I admit!

I love it's add-ons and extensions.

I'm not sure how familiar are you with add-ons, and what they can do, but I'll present you only 2 today, the ones that are aesthetically important.

Greasemonkey - userscripts which you can get here and to download scripts go here
Stylish - user styles which you can download here

Those are small scripts/styles which change the looks, layouts of web pages.

I find them extremely handy.

The main difference between scripts and styles (in my opinion) is that styles won't extremely change the page looks, but only enhance it, like, change colors, change font etc. But scripts could change whole page's encoding and layout.

IMPORTANT: These scripts and styles change your view of the page ONLY. Everyone else will see them as they are, unless they have scripts and styles as well.

Greasemonkey

After you download it from Firefox's add-ons website go to Greasemonkey website (you don't have to register).
By then, you should already have little monkey icon on your status bar (bottom of the page).If monkey is brown and smiling, it's activated, and if it's blue and sad looking, it's deactivated. Activate it by clicking on it with left click/right click and then 'Enable' (if you want to use it, of course).

Then go to the page with scripts and you can click Browse all scripts and then look at it alphabetically or you can use Search and type keyword (like "Livejournal", "Gmail" etc.).

When you find a script you like simply click the "Install this script" button on the top right side of the page. Then little box/window will appear and you'll have option to click Install, View script's code and Cancel. After it's installed, just reload page or close the window and open again, and it should work.

Stylish

After you installed the add-on from Firefox's add-ons page, go to the page with styles.

You have Popular sites to style but if the site you're looking for isn't there, go to Browse all site styles.
Other way much better: after you installed Stylish you should have a little icon on the status bar that looks like a piece of paper with brush over it. When you're on a page for which you're looking a style, just right-click and choose Find styles for this page. Then little window will appear and ask you to install it. Reload page, and enjoy. :D

My favorite scripts and styles
Greasemonkey

Livejournal:
Remove ads - now you can have Plus account without annoying ads and you can have all those pretty layouts/stylesheets. :D
LJ thread unfolder -when an entry has lots of comments you can't see all of them, because they were 'minimized', folded for easier scrolling. This offers you to unfold, 'open' them all.
Livejournal - Kill Nav bar - for those of you who think Navigation bar makes your layout look bad

Plus: If you hate LJ ads and other forced stuff from LJ, check this out no_lj_ads

Random:
Textarea backup - you know when you're typing a comment or a post and then suddenly press wrong button and then you lose all that you've been writing? Well, that's a headwall situation I'm familiar with - oh yes! This will memorize your text and when you get back to your page it'll offer you the text.
Facebook auto-colorizer - colors whole facebook profile according to profile picture.

Stylish

Gmail:
Better Gmail 2Skin - Fe mails - pinky color with bears, hihi
Gmail - bigger fonts - self explanatory I hope :)

deviantART:
Remove ads from deviantART.com - self explanatory I hope :)
deviantART - black - colors dA page in nice black-yellow combo

Facebook:
De-MySpecify - removes applications
deviantART skin for Facebook - applies dA color theme on Facebook

Misc.:
Universal ads remover - self explanatory I hope :)
MySpace ad/annoyance remover - removes ads and all those new boxes from home/login page
Youtube remove ads - self explanatory I hope :)

Explore this a bit, it's very interesting! And if you find some new cool script or style, let me know! I always like more! :D

If you're interested I might make a post with other useful add-ons I found. :D (well, I'll post it anyway :P)