Link(s): Thu, Jul 8th, 8am

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]

Kudos to Professor Erik Luna for being cited by Lindsay Lohan in her Twitter rant about her jail sentence
[Sentencing Law and Policy]

I thought that I had reached a sentencing pop-culture zenith a few years ago when, as detailed here, ESPN's Mike & Mike made fun of me on their ESPN morning radio show. But my good friend and colleague Professor Erik Luna has now clearly topped me; as detailed in this CBS News report, he got cited by Lindsay Lohan in a Twitter rant about her recent sentencing…

…it is truly heartening to learn that troubled hollywood starlets still take time to read legal scholarship, even though it seems most judges and practicing lawyers have given up on the stuff.

The ethereal wood paintings of Audrey Kawasaki
[io9]

Audrey Kawasaki paints part-manga, part-Art Nouveau scenes of women in supernatural settings. Kawasaki places her subjects in a "sensually esoteric realm," where sea creatures, skeletons, and beasts from Japanese mythology roam. It's some sexy-odd phantasmagoria.

Georgeous art brings the castles of George R.R. Martin's Westeros to life
[io9]

We can't wait until HBO's adaptation of George R.R. Martin's A Game Of Thrones hits our screens. But here's something to make the wait bearable: an exclusive first look at a new calendar featuring gorgeous art of the saga's castles.

Reasons The Fire Dept. Hate Us #342
[There, I Fixed It - Epic Kludge Photos]

[Wow. Wow. It... Wow. -L]

Lowercase p, dangit!
[Justin Tadlock]

Matt Mullenweg wrote a filter function called capital_P_dangit() that correctly capitalizes the “P” in misspellings of WordPress where the “p” is lowercase. It may seem like a minor thing, but there are several issues at hand.

* The code literally breaks things like URLs on some sites. For example, suppose you installed WordPress in a /Wordpress directory. That would cause all kinds of trouble with things like images….

One of the reasons I use WordPress is because of its philosophy on community, openness, and freedom, which fits along nicely with my own personal philosophy about most things in life. The idea that a piece of software could infringe upon those values is what bothers people…

How to remove the capital_P_dangit() filter

You can either install the Remove Wordpress to WordPress Filter plugin or add the below code to your theme’s functions.php file…

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