We can all sleep easier now

The oldest Mayan calendar yet found goes past December 12, 2012. I haven't read the whole article, but it looks like we get another seven thousand years or so. Plan your retirement accordingly!

I appreciate the efforts of the CSM, but had already gotten the cosmological information needed to shut my lizard and mammal brains up from the incomparable Neil Degrasse Tyson:

( NdGT video behind the cut )

Before that, my fore-brain had information from Thomas Cahill's The Gifts of the Jews, combined it with stuff from my Neo-Pagan phase that came from I can't remember where and concluded that moderns were missing the point: Mayan calendars are round. Round things don't end; they start over.

What, if anything, persuaded you that the end of the world isn't actually scheduled for this holiday season? Or were you never really worried? Or was this all ZOMG NEWS TO YOU?

Question about livejournal layout

This is also a use-ability test for the LJ support pages.

I want people who comment on my posts to have a subject line available to them. I thought I'd added  a post to my memories about how to do this about the same time LJ forcibly migrated everyone to the current farce of a style, but apparently not.

I've been wading around the FAQ and support section for nearly an hour so far, and the best I can do is make some guesses.

1. Only Style 1 (no longer supported) had subject lines available to commenters.
2. Only paid accounts have the option to add subject lines (etc)
3. LIVEJOURNAL HATES EVERY USER, PAID OR OTHERWISE, WHO WANTS THEIR COMMENTERS TO BE ABLE TO ENTER A SUBJECT.

No, really. Why wouldn't Googling "display subject line in livejournal" or "livejournal comments subject lines" or "what journal style in livejournal includes subject line in comments?" get a NOT code monkey a straight answer in five minutes or less? Why would a basic level account user have to know how to script or customize style sheets to get subject lines made available to people who comment? I don't even care what text displays if the respondent doesn't add a subject, which seems to be the next most favorite topic.