dispatches from Canada's capital
Perhaps the most unusual WordPress plugin I’ve ever heard of is Next of Kin. According to the plugin’s creator: It monitors your own visits to your wordpress system, and will send you a warning email after a number of weeks (of your choice) without a visit. If you fail to visit your blog even after [...]
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Alternative title: What to do when everybody ignores you? In the wake of University of East Anglia email scandal, there has been yet another review of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This one was chaired by Harold Shapiro, a Princeton University professor, and concluded that “[t]he U.N. climate panel should [...]
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Probably the most problematic thing about writing associated with Richard Feynman is repetition. Both his books and books about him tend to be at least quasi-biographical, and often feature the same stories, examples, explanations, and even bits of writing. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out certainly suffers from this flaw, at least for those who [...]
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AdBlock Plus is an excellent Firefox plugin that automatically prevents the display of advertising on websites. This includes banner ads, as well as the sort of targeted text ads that Google has made a fortune through. When using AdBlock, the web is a much more functional, uncluttered place with fewer distractions. I highly recommend it. [...]
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I remember being taught – ages ago – that the proper way to combine punctuation with quotation marks is to put the former inside the latter, like so: I remember what he said: “The Trojans cannot be trusted.” rather than I remember what he said: “The Trojans cannot be trusted”. or “I don’t see why [...]
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Reading one of the lengthy historical discussions of anti-Semitism in Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb, I came across a section on how Jews made an agreement with Louis the Pious, the son of Charlemagne, to be granted legal protections in exchange for becoming the ruler’s property. Rhodes says that: “Their rights were [...]
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