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 Fri 8 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 [...]
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