[Signal boosts are awesome.
...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com!
...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options.
--L.]
- Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Review – Dynamic Widgets
- Until now, my plugin of choice for accomplishing the same sort of functionality has been Widget Logic. Widget Logic is a no frills type of plugin that requires you to know a thing or two about Conditional Tags which control the display behaviour of widgets. However, Dynamic Widgets is much more user friendly and enables the typical end-user to tap into the strengths of conditional tags without knowing them.
- ‘Discovery of Jeanne Baret’ an Engrossing Journey – ABC News
- Readers who join author Glynis Ridley's fascinating literary expedition will discover far more than the life of the first woman to sail around the world.
In writing "The Discovery of Jeanne Baret," Ridley places her subject in the larger context of French society and government and Enlightenment attitudes about the role of women in the world of science.
- Sounds like moral relativism to me
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
When even the Church that has made human sexuality a purely procreative necessity within sanctioned marriage is making excuses for pedophilia among its priests because of "the times" then it's fairly clear that any institution can be thoroughly corrupted to its very core.
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- Blog – Best of 2010: Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists
- In March, we saw a new role that quantum information plays in gravity, setting the scene for a dramatic unification of ideas in physics.
One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises from the complex interaction of simpler things.
- Know Which Apps to Remove From MSConfig with This Startup Applications List
- [Lifehacker - Whitson Gordon]
One of the biggest slowdowns on a Windows computer is the barrage of applications that start up when you boot Windows. This application list will tell you which of those are safe to remove from msconfig.exe.
- Hackety Hack Teaches Ruby Programming to Aspiring Beginners for Free
- [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis]
Windows and Mac OS X: Hackety Hack is an application designed to teach complete beginners how to program in Ruby, eventually giving you the ability to create actual applications for the desktop and the web.
- RezScore Grades Your Resumes and Offers Free Advice
- [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis]
RezScore is a webapp analyzes your uploaded resume and provides surprisingly accurate advice. If you're applying for a new job and need to get your resume in shape, it could be a very helpful tool.
- North American English dialect map
- [kottke.org]
- How to Make Your Smartphone Photos Look Like They Were Taken with a Nicer Camera [video]
- [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis]
- Wednesday Geek Woman: Tabitha Roder
- [Geek Feminism Blog]
Tabitha Roder is the [founder and] leader of the One Laptop per Child volunteers in New Zealand. …This is the largest OLPC group, and their regular reliable contributions are a huge thing for the project.
One Laptop per Child is on a mission to give a laptop, loaded with education tools, to every one of the world’s poorest children. They’ve deployed millions of these laptops already to every single child and teacher across entire countries all around the world. The laptop goes to children who don’t have paper and pencils, who don’t have books…
- Old map shows slavery in the United States
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
- Pictures: Ancient Roman Spa City Reburied in Turkey
- A well-preserved, almost 2,000-year-old Roman spa city has been reburied as part of a Turkish dam project that's triggered a flood of controversy.
- Weblog Tools Collection: What Should WordPress Focus on in 2011?
- The suggestions are being collected for the core leadership meeting, and the topic will be closed on January 4th, so stop by to share your ideas before it’s too late.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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