[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Everybody needs a laugh: Comics for Us
- Library Theme Comics
Geek Theme Comics
Social Media Theme Comics
- Fox host: Muslims should 'give up their rights' in order to be 'good neighbors'
- [Crooks and Liars - David]
Fox News' Peter J. Johnson Jr. believes that Muslims in New York should "give up their rights" and move the Park51 Islamic center in order to please opponents…
The Fox News legal analyst explained that the First Amendment shouldn't really be a factor a factor in whether or not the proposed mosque gets moved.
"We are proud that we are one of the few countries in the world which allows the free exercise of religion, but when we resort to legalisms instead of common sense, or compassion, when we invoke our First Amendment as a sword, not a shield, it means we have lost sight of and broken faith with our national identity and strength," he said…
- Itty Baby Chin
- [Daily Squee - Cute Baby Animals]
[Tiny, furry, squashy... rodent? -L]
- Domesday Book Goes Online
- [ReadWriteWeb - Curt Hopkins]
The Domesday Book was a census, land and property survey carried out in England in 1086 for William the Conqueror. William presumably wanted to know what he owned and where it all was once he'd taken over England. It was an early landmark in law and a valuable artifact of English history.
Now, PASE Domesday has made the entire book available online in an extensive database, including statistical and narrative information with all its locations mapped. Although it has been designed for academics, the public can read and search free…
- 13,000-year-old artifacts found at bottom of Florida salt spring
- [A Blog About History - Sevaan Franks]
A collection of prehistoric artifacts have been found 90 feet below the surface of the Little Salt Spring, south of Tampa, Florida.
- Write a winning blog comment and get published in a book with China Mieville and Naomi Novik!
- [io9 - Charlie Jane Anders]
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities will catalog many rare and peculiar objects — but it seems like it'll be such an artifact in its own right. The book boasts a veritable bestiary of great authors… possibly including you!
- WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/20
- [Weblog Tools Collection - James Huff]
WP Word Count
is a plugin for WordPress that gives you word count statistics for your blog’s posts and pages. In addition to overall stats, WP Word Count also gives figures and details for the largest posts and pages of your blog as well as breakdowns for each of your blog’s authors.yPHPlista
integrates PHPlist, the famous open-source, free and powerful mailing list software, with WordPress smoothly.
- Stewart: 'Republicans should be paying Fox News'
- [Crooks and Liars - David]
It turns out that Fox News' Glenn Beck isn't the only one that can follow the money.
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart pulled out his chalkboard Wednesday and discovered that Fox News' parent company had been supplying one Republican group with loads of cash.
News broke Tuesday that News Corp. had donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association (RGA)…
- The archaic belief
- [I Can Has Cheezburger]
[Give me some Spock! -L]
- How to install Mint Style Gnome Menu in Ubuntu
- [Ubuntu Geek]
For those of you who ave ever tried Linux Mint, a distro which is run off the back of Ubuntu, you will have noticed that it has it’s own special and somewhat unique gnome menu to select your applications to run, folders to browse etc… much more customisable and innovative. [screenshot]
- New Web Directory Helps Freelancers Manage Their Reputations and Build Brands
- [ReadWriteWeb - Adrianne Jeffries]
OneThing.com is a new directory for freelancers who want to advertise their talents and build a verifiable reputation. There are two things that are really cool about it.
…strong visual interface…
Freelancers using OneThing can also sub-contract work to and from each other when there is a surplus or a dearth of business…
The Menlo Ventures-backed startup is now in private beta but it has about 17,000 profiles. It's got a few drawbacks – the emphasis on visual flipping makes the search results harder to refine, and profiles of freelancers without websites display a massive warning sign in a giant white box with the words, "Something cool coming soon."
[Yet Another Online Reputation Management Solution. Also, I am really upset that this article uses the "two cool things -> first one is" setup without highlighting the second cool thing by using a phrase such as "the second cool thing is". Where is my second cool thing, dammit?! -L]
- Canonical Teaches Ubuntu to Phone Home Every Day
- [LinuxInsider - Katherine Noyes]
It's true! The new "canonical-census" package apparently sends an "I am alive" ping to Canonical each day as a way to help the company track the users of OEM Ubuntu installations, according to a report on Phoronix.
No user-specific data is sent, Phoronix notes; rather, the package reportedly transmits only the operating system version, the machine product name and a counter.
"This information will obviously be valuable to see whether customers are keeping around their Ubuntu installations or just wiping them and just how often Ubuntu is being used on these systems," Phoronix's Michael Larabel pointed out.
Plus, "for those not wanting to participate in this anonymous data gathering process, they could always sudo apt-get remove canonical-census," he added.
[Click through for select quotes from the slashdot wank which followed. -L]
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