WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/11 – Theme Tweaker displays the existing colors from your current theme, and gives you a color picker to replace them. It also lets you change them in bulk, like invert all colors, use grey scale etc. Admin Drop Down Menu Create drop down menus in your WordPress Admin area. Private [...]
Archives for May 2009
Links for April 16th through April 17th
Amazon's very bad day – A great deal of racism, homophobia, etc., happens not because anyone particularly wants to be racist or homophobic, but because the ground has been tilted that way by arrangements made long ago and if you're not constantly on the lookout it's easiest to roll downhill. [...] UPDATE: Soft Skull publisher [...]
Links for April 16th from 14:17
Amazon Fail: Clarification – Marginalized drifts to “illicit” in people’s minds, and so an honest mistake could also be the product of systemic oppression. And that’s what I mean about how adult classifications drift towards oppressing the expression of gay people and feminists, unless you put a great deal of oversight into the system. I [...]
Links for April 12th from 20:32
"Whites Only" – Recently, when I asked my students an exam question about World War II and pre- and during war mobilization, I began with the statement, “During the first half of the 1940s, Americans found themselves confronted with the paradox of fighting racism abroad while sustaining a racially/ethnically stratified system at home.” Of course, [...]
Links for April 7th from 16:12
Homelessness Up Around Country – Well, after the first part of conservative philosophy—starving the beast and letting the free market rule—was put into action, it's time to check in with the second part of that philosophy and see how it's going for people. The economy should be strong (oopsy!) and anyone falling off the edge [...]
Links for April 7th from 15:42
Soaking in Normalcy Fetishism, or: The Unmiseducation of a Fatasspie – Autism, Asperger's, fat phobia, and other forms of oppression.(tags: none) Marriage Equality in Vermont – The state legislature of Vermont has overridden Gov. Jim Douglas's veto of the same-sex marriage law.(tags: none) The Narrative – The man was a murderer. An admitted abuser, of [...]
Links for April 7th from 15:27
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs – Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details [...]
Links for April 7th from 15:09
Plugin Review: Post Templates – If you find yourself writing posts and pages on a regular basis which have the same structure, then this plugin would be a great addition to your WordPress plugin arsenal. Written by Vincent Prat, Post Templates plugin helps you save time blogging by letting you save and recall templates for [...]
Links for March 31st from 13:09
The Cost of Beauty, Part 2: The Numbers – As to what sucks up all of those HarpyBuxx (they’re not just good for abortions anymore!): our lovely, lovely tresses: 43% of expenditures go towards hair cuts, coloring, or other services. Make-up takes up another 29%…(tags: none) So… – …the Obama administration puts up a "A [...]
Links for March 31st from 12:57
Cheating is the system, or how my phone bill woes demonstrate what destroyed the economy – When so much of your economy is built on manipulating the basic enforcement techniques to get money people genuinely owe you to get all sorts of money they don’t, in a just system, owe you, things are going to [...]
Links for March 31st from 11:05
A Whiteboard That Explains Terminator's Entire History [Terminator] – (tags: none) Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices – (tags: none) WordPress News for 3/31/09 – Learn how to create a sleek and stylish WordPress theme in Photoshop with this tutorial from PSDVibe. [...] Learn some new tricks and discover new tools and plugins [...]
Links for March 30th from 13:37
Scenes from the Struggle in Post-Feminist America – Just merely commenting positively on a strong female lead risks being "too PC," despite the fact that strong female leads are still so unusual as to be remarkable, which is what warrants the comment in the first place. In other words, what Mankiewicz was really doing, intentionally [...]
Links for March 30th from 13:05
Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire? – [YES, OH GOD PLEASE. --Lee.](tags: none) Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress – cSprites for WordPress plugin helps speed up your blog by reducing the number of requests made for images. When activated all images within a post will automatically be stitched up and displayed properly as compressed [...]
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