[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- WordPress 3.1 Post Formats Reference | Lisa Sabin-Wilson
- Post Formats allow you to create a Tumblr-like blog layout where you can offer different types of content and styling for each individual format type.
- How To Resize WordPress wysiwyg Editor To Full Width In Single Click
- [Tech Yard - Avinash]
WordPressto is a bookmarklet that increases the WordPress wysiwyg Editor screen of WordPress by modifying the Interface, un-cluttering the view and doing few other things like adding the save and preview buttons.This makes it very easy to use the WP Editor.
- Filipino Cuisine – A Food Lover’s Guide
- [MashTechWorld.com - mattdriscoll]
Some folks say that Pinoy food is bland by comparability with other Asian meals, especially the hot and spicy Thai recipe like the famous Thai Curry. Nonetheless, taking away the hot spices allows Filipino meals to develop its own delicious taste with out the overbearing, eye-watering sting of pink sizzling chilies. The very mildness of Filipino meals makes it suitable for those with appreciative and sensitive taste buds…
Many dishes are named to describe the way they’re cooked. For instance adobo is meat stewed in vinegar and garlic; kilawin is raw seafood; sinigang is bitter soup.
- Three ways to spread your idea and boost your satisfaction before the year ends
- [Daniel Pink]
As you’ll see, the advice is savvy, sensible, and surprising. Once you’ve read their guidance, you’ll want to pick up the book at [one of these links.]
- Right Click to Link to a YouTube Video at a Specific Time
- [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis]
- Cablegate Is Great for Web Traffic at The Guardian – Media – GOOD
- I'm sure the editorial powers that be at [various] have a very well developed, public-interest-based justification for publishing the WikiLeaks material, but the business people in those institutions have to be happy too. It looks like Cablegate is responsible for a doubling of traffic at The Guardian.
And, as Visual Journalism notes, because the documents are being released gradually, the media outlets that are getting prior access are going to be leading on this story for quite a long time.
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- College Is Only Good for Helping Rich People Get Richer: College students do little work, and learn virtually nothing while they’re there. [With actual stats.]
- [GOOD - Shamus KhanShamus Khan]
A recent GOOD column argues that college is overrated. Unfortunately, this is dead wrong. The economic returns to a college education are increasing. There is a wealth of academic data on this….
This makes it hard to argue that the rewards of college have anything to do with the development of skills. If you’re not working, and you’re not learning much, then how, exactly, are you developing skills that help you earn more?
…why is it that people who graduate from colleges make more than those who don’t? And looking further forward, what value, either social or economic, can college graduates be adding to our society if they are neither developing skills nor learning to work hard?
…Colleges admit already advantaged Americans. They don’t ask them to do much or learn much. At the end of four years, we give them a certificate. That certificate entitles them to higher earnings. Schools help obscure the aristocratic [nature of] American life.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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