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OK, this is goofy, but I was tired and bored, so I started playing around with "The Advertising Slogan Generator" (via Pharyngula) You put a word or phrase in, and it sticks it in classic advertising slogans. I used "cognition," and this is what I got:
Try Cognition, You'll Like It.
The Cognition…
Howard Zinn is gone, now, but he left us plenty. Here is a short piece he wrote a little over ten years ago in Z Magazine (hat tip, SR). It's typical of his style: inspiring, humble, practical, especially in these times:
On Getting Along
Howard Zinn, March, 07 1999
You ask how I manage to stay…
OK, I apologize in advance for the general venting that is about to occur. But, in my defense, people really bug me sometimes.
I posted my post 'Take 30 Seconds to Save Sea Turtles' at another website and got this response:
Is there evidence anywhere that any shallow internet poll has ever actually…
Like everybody else, I'm horrified by the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. It's the sort of nightmare situation you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
Of course, the bodies aren't even cold yet, and already the blogosphere is a-flutter with people touting this as proof that the US needs to change…
You know, I think I could get used to this. Just installed the plugin, and editing comment using gedit now. I usually have a gedit session open for various reasons anyway, so this might come in quite handy.
It's all text is very useful (admittedly I use it on a mac with emacs not on linux).
Emma
Hmm... I dunno. Handy for doing proper editing, I guess. Syntax highlighting on HTML stuff. I'll try it the next time I write up a big post, though Wordpress' built-in TinyMCE is actually pretty good.
Handy, but not quite seamless with Twitter or bit.ly. In both cases it populates the textarea but doesn't seem to update the "number of characters remaining" until you click inside the box.
not to be too much of a downer, but I would prefer to continue using copy/paste when I want to type enough to want a real editor
OK, let's try this out on a Windoze machine. There's a little button and when I click on it (having set the preferences), Notepad++ comes up. Now to hit "save".
And now for an update. I'll hit "save" again.
Probably set it up with GEdit on my Ubuntu machines. Shiny!