The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog Very helpful guide. Included are initial configurations, must-have plugins (I learned a lot from the foregoing two), how to customize the theme, and ‘advanced trickery’ (I have yet to plumb the depths thereof). The author frequently writes for Lifehacker, and if you want some real amazement, [...]

“The memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil; …The memory of death will serve as a shield against death” – Elie Wiesel Nobel Lecture, 1986 This touching reminder appears at the end of a video presentation on the October 29, 1944 Jewish broadcast in Aachen, Germany. After a month of bitter fighting, [...]

Maureen Dowd excellently encapsulates the problem at the root of some – though certainly not all – of the reactionary right-wing. Up ’til now, I’d have loved to pretend that racism really doesn’t exist except in hidden, smirking, low-class and dank corners of our society. It’s certainly my experience that people are far more virulently [...]

This map gives a good start. Perhaps it doesn’t sum up all the changes of the Bush years, and perhaps it’s just meant to surprise. But our world changed mightily in less than a decade, and this collection of statistics is an excellent attempt at a summation. Source

I have an innate reverence for the founders of this republic, their unique genius and the genius of the foundation they laid for this nation – the greatest, most prosperous and freest nation that has ever existed on this earth. “Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.  Government [...]

Why is it that Planck has his own constant named after him when someone as great as Archimedes has a constant that’s more commonly known as Pi? Pi is so important and Archimedes was the first to determine that 223/71 < π < 22/7. You know how he did that? He inscribed circles in polygons [...]

JBS thinks that men shouldn’t have to look at other men for their underwear ads. To that end, they’ve created a provocative series of ads that have brought them renown – and gratitude, we’re certain – the world over. Personally, when I look at these, I love roiling in the decadence. Girls can be one [...]

The infamous girl’s name has received a huge boon for chillens comin’ on up the age ladder. The scary part is the time at which new parents were naming their daughters Paris – it indicates it was when the most infamous of Parises was becoming famous.. for a sex tape. Really, parents, why would you [...]

At the time that the Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) movie starring Audrey Tautou bears down on us in theaters, and Karl Lagerfeld channels her for Harper’s Bazaar, we should take a look at the iconic woman behind the name. Was she enigmatic? Yes; her reputation doesn’t lead astray in that regard. Perhaps the [...]

Human resources is a growing business.  The messy work of dealing with the ever more complicated and intricate legal aspects relating to the workforce  - the ‘human capital’ – is best left to professionals who can navigate this system and its myriad rules.  Long gone is the time, if it ever existed, in which a [...]

From the slightly annoying to just plain excruciating, with audio corrections by Amber L: 5. Bruschetta – acceptable Often incorrectly said as: broo-shheh-tuh or broo-shhkeh-tuh How to say it: broo-SKEH-tah A minor offense, because to Anglo eyes it certainly looks like a SHH sound should be in there. A reasonable person can look at the [...]

You may notice we’re using a new, nifty rotator on the index.  That is all due to the expertise of one man.  His site is located here, and I encourage you to visit it and check out his offerings. There is, quite frankly, a ton of Web 2.0 information available there, and we’ll definitely be [...]

“Breaking: Obama picks Bud Light for ‘beer summit’ USA Today President Obama will drink Bud Light at the Thursday meeting with the African-American professor and white police officer who got in a dust-up earlier this month. Press secretary Robert Gibbs just made the announcement to the press pool on Air Force One. The full menu [...]

Hang your heads in shame, racist Facecrackers. From SF Weekly: “Last week, a study showing that older folks have flocked to Facebook was all over the news. But word of an even more provocative trend waits in the wings: white flight from MySpace to Facebook. Self-styled social media pundit Danah Boyd [...] compared the exodus [...]

This man is an excellent writer. In covering First Lady Michelle Obama for Vogue, where he is Editor-at-Large, he was remarkable. Only at the end did he reveal any of himself in this. As we rolled along, I thought of my own journey. How many among the crowds gathered to watch us pass were like [...]

I started freelancing full-time in 1982, during the depths of the recession you were sweating out working at a lumberyard, and I have earned more than $100,000 a year as a freelance writer for 26 consecutive years. Last year, I grossed $500,000, as I did the year before that. I tell you this not to [...]

The Right Stuff author himself proclaims July 20, 1969 a “giant leap to nowhere.” Harsh, but is he wrong in his assessment of space program staleness and decline? That the lunar landing is still seen as such a momentous occasion, THE pinnacle of space exploration, would suggest not. But I also tend to think we [...]

“It’s the American way that we judge people as individuals, not as groups. And by that standard we can say unequivocally that this particular wise Latina, with the richness of her experiences, would far more often than not reach a better conclusion than the individual white males she faced in that Senate hearing room. Even [...]

I think the next time I have to visit the Dr. and they ask what I’m allergic to I’m going to tell them lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). If they ask what symptoms I have on it, I’ll tell them I started having hallucinations. If that works, I’m going to keep adding to my list of [...]

Barack Obama has been elected the 44th President of the United States. Beautiful banners created by Grizzly. An archive of icine discussion: The 2008 General Election thread. Our 2008 Election Day thread. Noteworthy state and local election results. Our election predictions contest. Gamechanging moments in this election. Screenshots of world news and newspaper websites in [...]