ginny on April 5th, 2008

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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ginny on April 5th, 2008

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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ginny on April 5th, 2008

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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ginny on April 5th, 2008

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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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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Evidence Supports Earlier Date for People in North America – New York Times

Exploring Paisley Caves in the Cascade Range of Oregon, archaeologists have found a scattering of human coprolites, or fossil feces. The specimens preserved 14,000-year-old human protein and DNA, which the discoverers said was the strongest evidence yet of the earliest people living in [...]

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