I'm working on my last term paper of the year this weekend (yes!) so will try to find a coherent thought when I'm finished with that. ;)
Links ... I'm not sure why your url isn't converting automatically to a link. It should be. I can only assume that it's because you're an anonymous commenter, and it's maybe a bug in the LJ system? HTML should work; here's the code, if you don't know it already, to create an HTML link:
<a href="URL">TITLE</a>
Sub in your own URL and story title for the capital letters, of course. :)
Re: Beyond the Pale - Dwim
Links ... I'm not sure why your url isn't converting automatically to a link. It should be. I can only assume that it's because you're an anonymous commenter, and it's maybe a bug in the LJ system? HTML should work; here's the code, if you don't know it already, to create an HTML link:
<a href="URL">TITLE</a>
Sub in your own URL and story title for the capital letters, of course. :)