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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 Tags
The “Private Tags” WordPress plugin allows users to specify a list of tags or categories to keep hidden from the public – all posts within the specified tags/categories, and the tags/categories themselves, will not be visible to anyone but the original author.
Blog Audit is a WordPress plugin which helps you audit your blogging process. It does that by tracking 4 types of activities and match those activities with your blogging goals.
(tags: none) - Ancient history through a very modern lens * –
You’d think these [newly-found coins which bear Cleopatra’s image] would be treasured primarily as priceless ancient artifacts or mementoes of a beloved queen. But they are valuable for another reason. A couple of years ago, scholars examined another coin bearing Cleopatra’s image and determined: “The popular image we have of Cleopatra… that of a beautiful queen,” was wrong. Apparently, the news that Cleopatra might not have looked like Elizabeth Taylor was shocking to some.Thus, we have the problem of figuring out what to do about Cleopatra–when you tie most of a woman's achievements/activities to her "incomparable" beauty, how do you now, when she is (ridiculously) judged by current standards to be "ugly," tell her story? How does it change? To what do we attribute Caesar's and Antony's "weakness" (as affection or regard for a woman is so often called)? Surely, Cleopatra's intelligence or cleverness or personality could not have been enough?
(tags: none) - Yay, Maryland! –
Maryland would become the first state to list the homeless as a class protected from hate crimes under legislation that is headed to Gov. Martin O'Malley's desk.
The homeless are one of the most disproportionately targeted groups for violent crime: There is a significant LGBTQI homeless youth population in America who are at high risk for assault, homeless women are at elevated risk of sexual assault, and homeless people of any demographic are frequently subject to extreme violence like being set on fire, merely because they are incredibly vulnerable. This bill is not only groundbreaking but desperately needed.
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