Ailes, Knippers, and making sandwiches for conservative activism at Convention (tags: IRD)
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Okay, according to Alex at the excellent ecto support forum, he probably uploaded a fix for the YouTube problem right after I downloaded the previous revision. So: the search function works, and I’ve already seen the warning that says it won’t display in the edit window, but would be visible in the preview window. However, it isn’t. Why not? Try publishing and see what happens. The point is trying to get videos show up in Bloglines, though, so I think I still have to put in enclosure tags. Object has been resized to 300px wide X 245 high in the…
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Welcome to the Hylton Memorial Chapel Hylton Memorial Chapel is a nondenominational Christian Event Center that opened in 1995. The facility does not accommodate a local church or congregation on a regular basis. It seats nearly 3500. The facility was designed to host large Christian events and facilitate renewal throughout the region. Whoa – a gigantic thing like that, and there's no regular services there? What a strange concept to someone like me, who's been on the Bishop's Committees of more than one small, underfinanced mission parish. All this money that evangelicals throw at ginormous facilities just boggles my mind,…
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Well, I don’t know if ecto can help with YouTube videos showing in my feed, or if I should use WordPress’ custom field for that. Guess not, at least for now: And the WordPress custom field didn’t work for me either, though I know nothing about how to use it. I do know that the automatic enclosure WP used to wrap around media URLs is reportedly not working for some people, though I don’t know much about that either. I suppose this latest version of ecto – 2.3.3 – has some other nifty features that I’ll discover later. All my…
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Excellent analysis of the Current Unpleasantness! Waste Paper Basket » The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker [tags]Akinola, Jefferts Schori, Rowan Williams[/tags]
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Boing Boing: Keyboard waffle-iron My husband David would love it if someone would send him a box of frozen QWERTY keyboard waffles. I’m sure they would be delicious and yummy and it would be fun to “type” while eating, although it would be pretty messy. I’m just sayin’. [tags]BoingBoing, waffles[/tags]
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Boing Boing: Rebit offers effortless full backup for Windows machines My father is working with a company in Colorado that makes a very nifty backup appliance for Windows machines, called Rebit, which provides continuous backup without any learning curve or effort. It’s a pocket-sized USB hard drive that draws power from the USB connection (so there’s no need for an adapter). There are no buttons or switches or setup programs to install or configure. As soon as you plug it in, a dialog box pops up asking you for permission to let Rebit go to work. You click OK, and…
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UnNews:Pastafarians celebrate National Day of ARRRRRRRRRRRR – Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia CORVALLIS, Oregon — Oregon State University (OSU) hosted the country’s largest and only congregation of Pastafarians to participate in the US government’s National Day of Prayer celebration. While the FlyingSpaghetti Monster and his high-cholesterol suffering followers are still not yet recognized by any of the world’s legitimate governments, it is still considered a more believable religion than Scientology and all its stupid Alien DC-9s and Thetan crap. Darn! I totally missed this shit! Well done, OSU, our pants are off to you! Maybe we can all have spaghetti for…
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This was not one of my better weeks. I found myself spinning in place, buried in paper, trying to adapt to this new process at work for handing a whole new division of our main client – a division that’s completely and never will be, because they won’t ever have company corporate cards. This forces us into an untenable situation – arrange travel (mostly hotels, some air, a few cars) that is completely paid for by the the division, and handle all of these reservations not by phone, but by forms that are either faxed or emailed as attachments to…
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Canada Post cowed by very threatening cat | Oddly Enough | Reuters WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada's postal system has stopped delivering mail to a home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after a mail carrier was scared away by a "very threatening cat," the Winnipeg Free Press said on Friday. My Seattle-based friend Kevin sent me this, owing to our mutual interest in all things Pythonesque. He imagines Eric Idle in the role of a perky, winsome newsreader describing the ferocious feline as ""8-year-old declawed Shadow loves to cuddle, and wouldn't bat an eye if a bomb went off."