a vintage year for scoundrels

- It is fandom_stocking time again! Mine is here; let me know where yours are if you're doing it too. ♥

- Why did I spend so long thinking I don't like Miranda? It is hilarious.

- Have been chopping and changing my livejournal layout for weeks, but I think I have finally found one I like, from mintyapple. Though having said that I will probably wake up tomorrow and decide that I'm fed up of it. It was surprisingly hard to find one I liked, given that I only had three criteria: 1) prettiness, 2) ability to add my header to it and 3) reasonable sized dark text on white background.

- I watched "Kinda" last night, which was excellent. Kudos to whoever thought of dyeing Tegan's teeth when she was possessed, that was VERY effective. I also watched "Four to Doomsday", which I wanted to like because the title is great, but I didn't quite. I spent a fair bit of time going "THIS IS WHY PEOPLE DON'T LIKE YOU" at Adric, alas. The sets were really good, though. Next up is a lot of stories that I have already seen! Exciting. (Oh, also, I have notes at home for a "Logopolis" and "Castrovalva" reaction post, must get round to typing those up. I expect they are full of wit and insight, unless they're not, which is also a possibility.)

1) First of all, via Anna at FWD/Forward, it looks like blind voters had trouble voting last Thursday. According to one of the commenters, this is at least partly due to the templates for blind voters not coming with any instructions, so the staff at the polling station had no way of knowing how to use them. This is on top of other people not being able to vote due to long queues and polling stations running out of ballot papers. GREAT.

2) Re: our new Tory overlords, I am a) not happy and b) waiting to see exactly what grade and variety of D: we're going to get.

3) Friday's Quote of the Day in the BBC Magazine made me a little angry, since it seems to think that the idea of a woman being too embarrassed to ask a man to stop harassing her is a) hilarious and b) something that only happens in Japan.

4) LJ is being skeevy again, it appears. SIGH.

5) Hey, actually this last bit's sort of positive: Facebook has fiddled with the privacy settings again, but now it lets you hide a lot of things that were previously public only! Of course, they haven't announced this so far as I can see, and everything defaults to still being public, but it's something anyway.