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Advanced WYSIWYG in WP 2.1

May 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · The Never-Ending Bloga

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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Not No Violence

May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

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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L337 Katz0rz: A Linguistic Approach

May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

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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Headline Editors Are Funny

May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts

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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Dr. Laura: No whiners, milwives

May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts

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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