looks like the spammers are picking things up a bit – they’re bypassing mollom like it’s not even there, and are skirting akismet too. Fun…
From the monthly archives:
August 2008
spam elevation - August 31, 2008
I took the text of Obama’s speech from the 2008 DNC and fed it through Wordle.net to generate a word cloud to visualize common words. It’ll be interesting to compare with McCain’s speech next week…
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worst. website. evar. - August 28, 2008
I spent the last 2 months trying to get my password retrieved from rccl.com so I can pay for the remainder owing on our family vacation. They kept saying they couldn’t do it, because I was telling them a different email address than what they had on file. On my last email, I suggested that they might actually want me to log in, as I still need to pay a sizable chunk of cash in the near future. My password and username arrived via email within an hour of that. Interesting, how when you find the proper motivation, even the crappiest website on the planet suddenly starts working…
I was going to write up a post describing how to use the cool FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress to syndicate external content into a blog, and republish it in the context of a class or group. But, of course, Jim Groom has beaten me to the punch, and done a much more thorough job of [...]
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the postman delivers - August 27, 2008
My copy of Postman and Weingartner’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity was delivered in the mail today, thanks to the speedy Amazon.com shipping system. It’s got a fresh, blank Page 61 and I’m looking forward to having it filled up. I also picked up a copy of Technopoly. I decided to not go ahead and buy the other dozen books in my shopping cart in an effort to avoid credit-card-related domestic difficulties…
I just upgraded to wp-mollom 0.6.0 and it has a bunch of additions and fixes. If anyone has problems with it, please let me know asap.
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I’ve been wracking my brain trying to find where I heard a specific sentence about peace and peacefulness. I’m pretty sure it was triggered by this lost interview with John Lennon, although the exact quote isn’t in it. Either way, it’s a very powerful presentation of a student’s illicit interview with Lennon in 1969.
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peace - August 23, 2008
If you want peace, you must first be peaceful.
- unknown
this sentence has been rolling through my mind nonstop like a mantra for the last few days. I forget where I heard it – I’m sure it was in a TED talk, or other online video. Google searches haven’t turned up anything. It really doesn’t matter who said it. It feels right, though.
In my last post, I wrote about page 61 in Teaching as a Subversive Activity – where Postman and Weingartner asked the readers to contribute their questions to help shape an inquiry-based education, in response to their initial question “What is worth knowing?”
And now, I’m wondering… If you’re reading this…
What is worth knowing to you? [...]
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