Post Templates is a plugin for WordPress that lets the user define a pre-populated structure for posts. For example, someone who does a “picture of the day” post, etc. Rather than having to copy and paste between older posts or remember all the details, just set up the title, tags, categories, etc., etc. once, save…
April, 2009
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Over at Reason, Cathy Young wrote an uncharacteristically weak opinion piece on gay marriage, The Culture War Over Gay Marriage Is Here to Stay. Young argues that the debate over gay marriage pits traditional American values against each other — equality vs. a long-standing Judeo-Christian moral standard, for one — and because of this argues…
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I realized the other day that I’d finally quite playing World of Warcraft (though I still haven’t canceled my subscription). Oddly, it wasn’t that I woke up one day and suddenly said “no more WoW” but rather that I just gradually stopped finding reasons to log in and just sort of stopped while I carried…
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have a real love/hate relationship with Gmail. For the most part I love it, but Google seems to have Steve Jobs Disease in thinking that for key features there is only One True Way to implement a feature. If you don’t happen to like that…
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Among other things, Mississinewa Miniatures has a complete line of zombie miniatures including zombie dogs. All reasonably priced and perfect for a zombie/horror RPG or board game.
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Back in September 2008, the Washington Post ran an interesting look at self-surveillance, Bytes of Life, interviewing a number of people who were dutifully tracking numerous data points in their day-to-day lives. It is a good introduction to the subject, but unfortunately focuses on some of the more obsessive types in an already obsessive endeavor.…
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I really wish there was a video online somewhere of Rose White’s presentation on data storage at 25C3, The Infinite Library: Storage and Access of Pornographic Information. Of course, it has always been a pain to store pornography — and so we have the cultural trope of a stash of magazines “under the mattress” or…
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Awesome looking action figure of Fry as Captain Yesterday.
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Hasbro recently announced it will be releasing 9 “new” Iron Man action figures in its series based on the movie. Of course all 9 appear to be nothing more than repaints and/or minor modifications of the previously released figures (which have already seen a number of minor and repaints). Still, this Battle Monger figure is…
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This exchange between Greg Yardley of Pinch Media and Joel Johnson of Boing! Boing! highlighted a fundamental hypocrisy about data collection and really begs the question of why so many websites think they need to collect so much data about visitors while really making this hard to suss out for normal users. Yardley is co-founder…