Flickr Commons – Going Strong! | Library of Congress Blog “Most weeks, we post old news photographs that have incomplete and even erroneous titles. The steady addition of informative comments remains much appreciated, and we have folded almost 9,000 updated photo captions back into our own online catalog. The rapid deciphering of “Mystery Photos” that had no […]
Put The Events Calendar Month View on Your Homepage
Because I’ve been messing with The Events Calendar for the RVArts project, along came another conversation where that plugin seemed like a good answer. It answered all their needs except for one – the wanted to have the month view of events be the homepage for the site. I knew that didn’t happen natively but […]
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Random Rap Songs for @brlamb
A pretty wide departure from the normal stuff on this site1 but after spending some time with the esteemed Bryan Lamb I thought it’d be fun to share some random rap songs. I’m sure all of these songs curse. Most are offensive. Some are just bad but I still like them for various reasons. I […]
WordPress Reverse List a Particular Category
I often get requests from instructors that ask me to get WordPress to behave in a way that’s just different enough that WordPress fights them. Now that I can mostly program, I could make quick child themes to deal with this but that causes me the hassle of keeping all that stuff straight so I […]
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RVArts – Dealing with Dates in WordPress
We have an awesome general education course starting this semester called Cultural Passport (aka RVArts). The goal is to get students involved with the community’s cultural events – participating, promoting, reviewing them. The web side of this ends up being pretty interesting. See their video below for more details on the course. When we started […]
Photography – Week 109
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Between the Words – C82: Works of Nicholas Rougeux data viz posters showing only the punctuation from famous novels tags: punctuation english weekly A primer on the damaging movement to privatize public schools – The Washington Post “If challenged, test fans often quote the late Dr. W. Edward Deming, the world-famous quality guru who showed […]
Photography – Week 106, 107, 108?
I have no idea what week I’m on. Winter break was a bit chaotic for me. A quick drive to see my parents in Alabama.1 I was then solo with the kids for about a week. While she was gone I managed to build a fairly decent bunk bed- a first for me. This was complicated by some […]
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Falcons imprison live birds to keep them fresh for a later meal | New Scientist tags: falcons birds meal biology weekly Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus “designers of synthesized voice systems have begun experimenting with the insertion of naturalistic disfluencies into artificial speech.” tags: future human […]
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Literally Unbelievable » “Merry Christmas!” We really don’t understand numbers. tags: numbers math truth lies reality weekly Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. […]