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• A Post About Blog Software

  Should I upgrade? Change platforms? Once every great while, I think I should either update to a more current version of MovableType from my increasingly archaic 2.64, or attempt the even more herculean task of converting to Wordpress. (MT is up to version 5.02!)

  Due to the large number of customizations [...]

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• UM Decides It Can't Regularly "Lockdown" Thousands of Adults

  The following popped up when I logged into UM's employee website yesterday:

  Members of the University community are asked to read these important new safety guidelines.

  As part of efforts to help ensure the safety of the UM community, the University has adopted a new protection strategy for on-campus incidents [...]

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• Great Filter

  I love that my email sp*m filter, Sp*mAssassin, has a category called “VANITY” which it defines as “Vanity or fake awards” and assigns 2.1 of the five points needed to be flagged.

  And it seems to work. Although weirdly this test is not listed among the official tests [...]

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• All (Virtual Worlds) Politics Is Pizza

  

  Aporia, in The Politics of Frozen Pizza, says “All politics is pizza.”

  The context is governance of online spaces (not therefore regions of, say, scarcity, war, or genocide), but in that realm it's a better metaphor then you might think.

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• Librarians Are Cool

  

  Librarians Do Gaga

  I like it better than the original. (Don't forget the data bases!)

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• Saftey Might Have Sold

  

  Jalopnik: How The U.S. Government Killed The Safest Car Ever Built.

  Not tin foil. It seems to be true.

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• Oil Torrent Plugged? Maybe Not

  Not looking so great right this minute:

  BP’s renewed efforts at plugging the flow of oil from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico stalled again on Friday, as the company suspended pumping operations for the second time in two days before resuming the procedure Friday evening, according to [...]

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• Sign of Progress on Oil Disaster?

  I hope this cautious optimism about stopping the gushing oil in the Gulf is correct. Even so, it's “progress” only in the sense of “not making things even worse.”

  The latest effort to plug a gushing underwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be working, officials and [...]

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• Fish

  

  Click around.

  (Fish via RATS)

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• This is What Enivronmental Disaster Looks Like (IV)

  

  The folks at Miami-Dade County government have a web page on Deepwater Horizon Response. Do they get a point for being proactive? Or do they lose one for their rather rosy crystal ball:

  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is not expected to impact Miami-Dade's beaches or fishing [...]

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