ginny on May 12th, 2007

Advanced WYSIWYG in Wordpress 2.1 : Just Some Dot Com
Holy CRAP!
Hitting ctrl+alt+V in Firefox or ctrl+V in IE turns the merely adequate WYSIWYG editor that comes standard with Wordpress 2.1.* into something much more robust and useful. It adds some HTML snippets, like headings, in a drop down menu, and it adds some extra functionality [...]

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ginny on May 12th, 2007

onegoodmove: Success in Iraq
My husband David and I laughed so hard the other night – Jon Stewart had a clip of Bush saying something so wonderfully garbled about Iraq, it inspired its own anti-Successories poster. I hope the poster will be available for purchase soon.

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ginny on May 12th, 2007

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? » Blog Archive A Special In-Depth Analysis by David McRaney – L337 Katz0rz «
David McRaney's insightful post about the history and ever-evolving structure of "l33tspeak" and its linguistic adopted cat-child, "kitteh" or kitty pidgin, is worth a read if you're interested in how language is constantly morphing on the Internet. It [...]

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ginny on May 12th, 2007

Former Hawkeye Pierce moves to Illinois | Chicago Tribune
At first I thought "What? Alan Alda is moving here?" Then I realized a basketball player named Pierce, from the University of Iowa was on his way, and a Chicago Trib headline writer was having a little fun with the item.  
 

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ginny on May 12th, 2007

Salt Lake Tribune – Dr. Laura to Army wives: Stop whining
Good God. With Dr. Laura on military wives' cases, they'll be in need of a real therapist soon. 

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ginny on May 12th, 2007

It seems like lilacs are in the news – tomorrow being Mother's Day, it's also apparently Lilac Sunday. There was a long piece on public radio show Living on Earth yesterday morning about how climate researchers use lilacs, because they're budding and blooming earlier and earlier.
At lunch yesterday, the little florist's shop [...]

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