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Posts Tagged: Wordpress
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Oct 09
Daily Links for October 27th through October 30th
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- Douchebags of the United States, Classified By Region – Douchebags are a lot like herpes: they're everywhere, and they all possess many common traits, but there are also many different strains of douchebag. It's important to be able to distinguish the traits of your region's strain of douchebag so that you have a better idea of what you're dealing with. That's why we've created this helpful guide to Douchebags of the United States.
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Sep 09
Daily Links for September 27th through September 29th
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- Student Loans: Studen Loan Interest and Total Cost of Student Loans | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – Sadness.
- Colleges Cut Costs – TIME – A funky roommate named recession is settling in on campuses this fall as colleges and universities slash budgets for virtually everything from salad bars to ski teams. U.S. colleges and universities suffered, on average, a 23% endowment drop in the second half of last year, according to a study by a group of campus business officers. That reduction in funding has set off a scramble to freeze hiring, cut hours and hunker down until the economy improves. "Institutions will have to manage with less," says Oberlin's vice president for finance, Ron Watts. Here's a look at how schools are getting creative with their wallets.
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Aug 09
Daily Links for August 10th
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- Ten things we don’t understand about humans – New Scientist – We belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation. But as science probes deeper into these eccentricities, it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that seem frivolous at first glance often go to the heart of what it means to be human.
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Jun 09
Thinking it may be ‘New Theme’ time…
It might be time for a new theme here. I’ve whittled it down to 5 choices from the Wordpress Themes page, with an emphasis on originality, minimalism, configurability, flexebility, and aesthetics.
The few that have made the cut are as follows:
It’ll take a good long time before I get around to choosing, and longer still until I make all the custom changes and tweaks to transition over from Cutline.
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Jun 09
Daily Links for June 8th
- The Return of the Salesman — HBS Working Knowledge – We asked BHR coeditor Walter A. Friedman, whose book Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America has contributed to the literature, to help us understand why salesmen are again the subject of academic interest.
- The Subscription Options Plugin – A wordpress plugin that provides choice for subscription options – RSS, email, and Twitter.
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May 09
Daily Links for May 28th
- The 50 Most Innovative Companies –
- Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? – O’Reilly Radar –
- Who’s Your City? –
- Walk On | GOOD – A website called Walk Score aims to answer that question. It ranks U.S. cities based on their “walkability,” a proprietary formula that measures population density, pedestrian-friendly design, public space, schools and businesses, and commerce.
