I just updated my blogging software to WordPress 2.5. The update went smoothly, though it always feels scary to me when I delete the old files before putting the new ones on the server. Make sure you save your database, make a copy of the old files, preserve your config file, and don’t delete any custom themes or plugins from your wp-content folder.
WP 2.5 has a lot of new stuff in the admin section. My favorite is the built in plugin for your WordPress stats, and when writing a new post it now easily allows for embedding media.
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. I don’t see how it could have been faked outside of having access to a Hollywood style budget for special effects. Some people are thinking that the elephant is tracing pencil marks too faint for the camera to pick up, a technique used by kiddie show hosts on television. I would like to see this same elephant drawing again, showing whatever the handler is doing. But I’m pretty damn near convinced that it is for real.
I like Monty Python, but this movie completely missed my consciousness. This is a funny clip from Eric the Viking, about when and when not to go berserk. Though it gets only 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, I just added the movie to my Netflix queue.
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“Chalk†a project organized by filmaker Ruth Sergel - streetpictures.com
In 2005 I asked her source on the names etc. She wrote: “The addresses/ages etc. come from a wonderful book Triangle: The Fire that Changed America that just came out a couple of years ago by David Von Drehle. He Chalked this year & spoke at the commemoration. Also Leon Stein (The Triangle Fire) wrote the classic book on the fire in the 1950s. Old school radical he interviewed many of the survivors. It is super-readable & devastating.â€
