Shakesville: On the Compliment Guys, Street Harassment, and Arguable Compliments – When they actually called out to me, it took me a few minutes to parse what they had said and realize that it wasn't uncomplimentary, it wasn't about my body, sexuality, or style, and it wasn't lewd. At the time, I actually smiled and [...]
Autodetecting and configuring multiple monitors in Ubuntu – (tags: none) WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/22 – Admin Post NavigationAdds links to the next and previous posts when editing a post in the WordPress admin.(tags: none) Automattic buys Blo.gs – Yahoo Spins Off Blo.gs To Automattic: WordPress parent company Automattic has bought the blo.gs pinging and [...]
The Advocate interviews mom of 11-year-old who committed suicide over gay taunts – On Friday, thousands of students will participate in the 13th annual National Day of Silence, and who knows how many fundie parents will choose to make their kids stay home so that they cannot be exposed to a silent call for tolerance. [...]
Maybe You Should Try Not Sucking – Media Insiders Say Internet Hurts Journalism. Discuss.(tags: none) So Here's the Thing… – Anyone who knows the first thing about property values, depreciation, neighborhood safety, and their inextricable association with widespread long-term vacancy, will be totally on board with squatter advocacy. Everyone else is probably a conservative who [...]
Just So Damned Curious How This All Works – I suppose that Ramesh Ponnoru has proposed a solution to the problem of the uninsured, if you believe that the problem of the uninsured is about people not having something called insurance rather than people being unable to obtain medical care. [...] After steadfastly proving that [...]
TEH SOUND BARRIER – (tags: none) Scientists Erase Painful Memories Without Drugs [Mad Science] – …another research group tried the same test on humans, teaching subjects to associate the sight of a blue square with a shock. Using this therapy, they halted the humans' fear responses (measured in sweating) to the blue square. They were [...]
Dear Internetizens, Please update Dashboard Tiddly. Version .2 works well enough in WordPress 2.7.1, but I wish I could import and export tiddlers. Tweet
A Better Press Corps Please – Obama did fine in his press conference tonight, but good grief . . . what an embarrassing performance by the White House press corps. First, there wasn't a single question asked about the Geithner plan which the administration rolled out yesterday. It's kind of a big deal. The fate [...]