Blogula Rasa

Reality-based in spite of my best efforts

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New and Improved, or New and Unproved?

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geek Out!, The Never-Ending Bloga

Because I had a positive experience playing around with Wordpress 2.5 on Rileycat’s blog, I asked David to go ahead and upgrade me here.
Some of the new features replace various plugins I was using before (Image Manager, and ST Visualize Advanced Features ). I’ll be using a new plugin - my [...]

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Drop a Dime: Countdown To Reality

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blogs Wot I Read, Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics, terrorism

Daily Kos: State of the Nation
The United States got itself in to a strange situation with Musharraf, in which the structure of its aid to the Pakistan government essentially incented the government not to find Bin Laden because if they found him they had reason to fear that the US would end this flow of [...]

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Puzzling Coins: New British Designs

April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Hot Off The Presses, Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

I can hardly wait to get my hands on the beautiful new coins of the realm on our next trip to Britain!

The New Designs Revealed
Via mediatinker

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A Painting With a Nazi Past

April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Connections, Hot Off The Presses

Wow! A friend of mine has a connection with this story, which I had scanned briefly via RSS/newsfeed a few days ago. Thus when she mentioned it, I recognized the painting immediately.
Just as an aside, I love the hat. Every naked lady should wear one.

A Painting With a Nazi Past
Britain’s National Gallery announced Thursday that [...]

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A photographer’s blog: it’s all about the lenses when you don’t get the access

April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Mini-Posts, Photos and Shutterblogs

Via guest blogger Seattle Dan at the General’s place, who noted that Seattle P-I photog Mike Urban has mad photo skillz:
And now a word about the joys of photographing concerts…

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