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Playing with WordPress Plugins

Playing with WordPress Plugins

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I’ve been playing with a variety of plugins for WordPress. I’ll be nice and not list the plugins that I don’t like. These are the new plugins that I’m actually using: The most useful one is Google Sitemaps (Arne Brachhold). It creates an automatically-updating Google-compliant sitemap of your blog with a built-in configuration page for your administration panel. Excellent! The WordPress Akismet comment spam filter works really well, but I wanted something at the gate too. Even scanning the hundreds…

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Bush State Thermometer

Bush State Thermometer

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A lovely temperature animated mapping – by statewide approval polls – from the 2004 elections to the present. The Bush Approval Map at Radical Russ. (via Recommended)

TTLB Graphs, Technorati Issues

TTLB Graphs, Technorati Issues

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Today I’m a Slithering Reptile in the TTLB Ecosystem. The descriptions are cute, and very humbling! I was an “insignificant microbe” for a while when I first had the blog. I was a “Flappy Bird” for less than a day once – I think that’s the highest up I’ve gotten. In addition to the regular blog stats, The Truth Laid Bare now has graphs of incoming links and outgoing links (by frequency). Here’s my most frequent incoming links graph: (larger,…

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Using a New WordPress Theme

Using a New WordPress Theme

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Again, I’ve grown bored with my WordPress theme. Until such time as I have the time and energy to design my own, I’m just using a modified version of the Remember theme by Becca Wei. I’m still customizing it for my content, so check back in a day or so. You might have to refresh the page if you’ve visited recently. I’ve got the image I want now for the header, but there are some buggy bits of the footer…

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Internet Freedom Preservation

Internet Freedom Preservation

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I just signed on as a citizen co-sponsor of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, an important bill designed to keep the Internet open and free. Today, the Internet is an open marketplace of ideas where anyone can join in. With traditional media, like TV, radio, or newspapers, it’s been difficult for average citizens to have a voice. But now, new technology is giving a wide variety of citizens the voice to speak out — anyone with a computer connected to…

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Religion as a Virus: Dawkins on Religion

Religion as a Virus: Dawkins on Religion

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Richard Dawkins (Oxford prof., father of meme theory, author of The Selfish Gene) argues against irrational, militant religion in the two-part Channel 4 UK documentary “The Root of all Evil?” (Jan. 2006). Dawkins goes too far by including all forms of faith – not all are in direct contradiction to independent thought and constructive doubt! (Please chime in on this – esp. Progressive Faith Bloggers!) Still, his arguments are very persuasive in terms of the malignant, dangerous, and destructive forms…

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