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embedding web-based citations with sni.ps
I’d tried sni.ps before – it’s a very cool clip management and embedding service by the Project Opus folks. It’s gotten REALLY nice. Let’s see if I can embed a citation: Partitioning of Data Partitioning of Data This involves moving different tables or different parts of the database into different databases, and normally... »
Dewey on educative power
All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power. - John Dewey, Democracy and... »
Dewey on society
Persons do not become a society by living in physical proximity, any more than a man ceases to be socially influenced by being so many feet or miles removed from others. A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists... »
testing wp-spamfree
I’d tried WP-SpamFree before as the antispam system here, but something was wonky (I think Apache wasn’t properly serving the javascript file or something). I’ve tweaked, and updated, and it appears to be working now. Testing much? »
99 cents at a time
I just upgraded a bunch of tracks to iTunes+ DRM-free files. At the bottom of my “Purchased” album, I noticed the stats: So that’s why she complains about the stream of iTunes charges on the Visa… Oops. »
it gets better
I’ll happily put up with a bit of snow, when the forecast for the rest of the week looks like this »
differences in mass media messages on twitter
it’s pretty easy to compare messages sent by various mass media outlets via twitter. it’s also pretty surprising how they spin the same information in different ways. update: mainstream media never fails to disappoint. an hour after posting this, CBC went live with the actual story, in line with how the Herald spun it on... »
