[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Daily Tip: Clean Up Your WordPress Dashboard by Adjusting Screen Options
- [Pressography - Sarah Gooding]
You’re in your WordPress dashboard all the time. Why not remove some of the feeds that you never read? In case you may have missed it, there is a “Screen Options” tab in there that you can pull down for adjusting your Dashboard’s appearance. …You can also change the screen layout and select to display the dashboard widgets in 1-4 columns.
- Mark the Life Cycle of Your Cleaning Tools with Permanent Marker
- [Lifehacker - Jason Fitzpatrick]
If you regularly demote scrub brushes and other cleaning tools from the kitchen, to less sanitary work like scrubbing bathrooms or cleaning tools in the garage, a simple marking system can quickly identify what state of the cleaning life cycle they're in.
- WizardRSS Coverts Any Partial RSS Feed to a Full Feed
- [Lifehacker - Adam Pash]
Sometimes web publishers provide excerpt-only versions of their RSS feeds rather than offering the full text via RSS—requiring readers to visit the site for the full story. Webapp WizardRSS converts any partial RSS feeds to a full feed.
- Airy Architecture: 14 Inflatable Pubs, Churches & More
- [WebUrbanist - Steph]
- Israel Declares for Ethnic Nationalism
- [Informed Comment - Juan]
The Israeli cabinet has approved a measure that would require persons applying for Israeli citizenship to affirm the “Jewish and democratic” character of Israel. The new oath would at the moment affect relatively few people, mainly Palestinians outside Israel who marry Palestinian-Israelis and who wish to unite the family on the Israeli side of the green line (and are permitted to do so). But the backer of the oath, Avigdor Lieberman (a former club bouncer from Moldavia), wants a similar or even stricter oath to be administered to all the Palestinian-Israelis, who form roughly 20 percent of Israel’s population.
Supporters of the measure, such as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, point out that this language already exists in Israel’s organic law.
But Palestinian-Israeli community leaders and members of the Knesset (parliament) have lambasted the oath as racist…
- Would-be Tides shooter: ‘It was the things [Glenn Beck] did, it was the things he exposed, that blew my mind’
- [Crooks and Liars - David Neiwert ]
- ‘Responsible Wealth Project’: Take Our Tax Cuts, Please
- [Crooks and Liars - Susie Madrak]
It's always good to remember that not all rich people are selfish and greedy. Here's a great example of some wealthy people who aren't fixated on "more, more, more":…
- ACLU Argues President Does Not Have Unchecked Authority to Kill You
- [ACLU Blog - Suzanne Ito]
A few weeks ago, the Obama administration filed a brief in response to our lawsuit challenging the president's targeted killing program. In that brief, the Justice Department asserted, among other things, that the president’s targeted killing authority is a “political question” that should not be subject to judicial review. It also invoked the state secrets privilege, arguing that litigating the case would threaten national security. Essentially, the Obama administration asserts the courts should play no role in establishing and enforcing the rules under which the president can kill American citizens whom it unilaterally determines to pose a threat…
- Testing stronger tasers
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
It's time for a heart to heart talk. If you are confronted by a police officer give yourself up immediately, do nothing at all to make him angry or believe that you are being uncooperative. Don't argue or fail in any way to follow his orders to the letter. They have permission to electrocute you for any reason…
- Fed Nominee Whom Sen. Shelby Deemed Too Unqualified To Confirm Wins Nobel Prize
- [Think Progress - Ian M.]
Earlier today, Federal Reserve Board nominee Peter Diamond won the Nobel Prize in Economics… despite the fact that President Obama nominated this Nobel laureate to the Fed nearly six months ago, his nomination is currently being blocked by just one senator. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)…
…the Senate’s rules are shockingly easy to abuse. Indeed, while it is common wisdom that 60 senators are required to get virtually anything done, the reality is much bleaker — most Senate business now requires all 100 senators to consent.
…Indeed, as a recent Center for American Progress white paper explains, there isn’t enough time in two entire presidential terms to confirm all of a new president’s nominees by the time that president leaves office:…
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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