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And this is my first test post, so it probably won’t work, but here goes.
OK, it works! I must have missed a checkbox or something.
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A collection of assorted WordPress stuff, for reference when the time comes to customize it for some projects:
- Thumbnail HTML addition for upload.php fixes a minor annoyance with image upload.
- Hebrew localization of the WordPress interface by Tomer Cohen.
- Faking it: WordPress as CMS explains a hack that can be used to filter the posts shown in a page, according to categories. There’s a more ambitious(?) solution to the same need, The Show Categories plugin.
- tutorial on writing plugins, and the Plugin API reference.
So this weekend I read this article about a man who wrote down his every thought for three months (and had no time to do anything else…) He described this as a pretty awesome experience, something someone should do once or twice in their life, to get a chance to actually think about the big questions of life in depth, or whatever.
Note, you laptoppers, that he used Pen and Paper, the ultimate tool for recording thought.
I recalled this tonight, while wishing to blog Tal’s awesome entry about dairies and journals. There should be a link here, a fitting segue, but let’s just pretend I wrote it and just go straight to quoting Tal (about the diaries of anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski):
The thing is, diaries are used for all kinds of mental bowel movements. Experiments, castigations, blowing off steam, lying, bullshitting, mental doodling, intellectual masturbation, whatnot. Malinowski’s real thoughts may have been entirely the opposite of what he wrote down in the diaries. It’s an important historical document for its general existence as such, including some important details, but it says nothing about Malinowski as a person, except that he was very intelligent, humorous, romantic, had a temper (a well known fact), and was an honest person, trying to be objective about everything, even himself. Whether he succeeded or not should be evaluated according to his accomplished publications, not his nightly doodles for himself.
(This post’s title is a tribute to what is probably the best-named Spaghetti Western of all time.)
Shiffer‘s comment on the Superbaby post (personal correspondance, as they say in the science journals when they don’t have a citation to offer) emphasized how I am a victim of my sources: I post links to stuff I see on other blogs, like most other bloggers do, thus perpetuating an incestious cycle.
So, I’m going to post a bunch of links that I found on other blogs, or on other sites with RSS feeds. This is sort of a linkdump, which I might make a habit of doing (instead of having massive pages with just one half sentence of content). So:
Apparently , the mother-child bond is an addiction or something:
Pleasure receptors best known for helping the body respond to morphine and opium may also hold the key to mother-child bonding, scientists reported on Thursday.
Mice pups genetically engineered to lack these receptors — doorways into cells — were unable to properly bond to their mothers and did not show the natural distress when separated from her, the researchers said.
Next, virtual reality can function as an anesthetic: a study case involving applying heaters to people’s feet while immersing them in a VR of an icy canyon populated by penguins and snowmen shows that not only does this distract them from the pain, it apparently makes them feel it less.
If that was a personalized link for Israel, in that I only posted it because he reads this blog, here’s one for Ijon, from boingboing. Check out the moose on that Canada Day coin.
I’ve still got some science links, one about glassy steel (adding rare elements to iron, researchers made amorphous, non-crystaline steel, that’s lighter and stronger, as well as non-magnetic), and other one’s about bees, a study showing how genetic diversity helps honeybees regulate the temperature of their hives: The new work shows that bees with different fathers start fanning at slightly different temperatures. This stops sudden colony-wide shifts between warming and cooling behaviours, and keeps the temperature in the nest more constant.
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Last, a link to Jay Pinkerton’s blog, mentioned by a commentator on this boingboing item. He writes funny shit (if you would have felt more comfortable if I’d written “funny stuff, it’s probably not your cup of tea), and has helpfully made a best hits list of his favorite articles, but browse the blog archives for parody art and such.