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Hey Jude: Airport Version

01/06/2010 by Debra

More video and story here

The line however, remained unmoved…

Filed Under: General Tagged With: airport, Hey Jude, YouTube

Stand up for Canada

12/24/2008 by Debra

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Canada, Harper, Politics, YouTube

WordPress Plugins and Tools

08/26/2008 by Debra

Ever embed a YouTube only to have it break your validation? There are plugins that will help with this, but they are for the most part only for posts or pages, for sidebar videos you were on your own.

Never fear intrepid WordPress/YouTube user there is a tool that will solve this problem, “Valid XHTML YouTube embed code generator” will generate a valid code and resize the video to your specifications.

Two comment plugins that make things easier for you and your commenters

Comment Remix Adds both front and admin end functionality

and

WP Ajax Edit Comments Because everyone should have the opportunity to correct their mistakes. 😉

and if you want to show off how many of those stellar comments you’ve received (or like me lack thereof ) try Liz Strauss Comment Counter

Tip of the Week

Are you having trouble with your end of post plugins and your posts running into each other? our your photos overhanging your postmeta?

Try adding this between them [sourcecode language=’php’]

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For more WordPress help or design contact: Fat Cat Designs.

Filed Under: wordpress Tagged With: Ajax, php, plugins, Tools, wordpress, XHTML, YouTube

Sunday Morning Velvet

08/17/2008 by Debra

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hY0Wwz1HYI[/youtube]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: music, velvet underground, YouTube

Gangs or… “Torture? What Torture?”

01/20/2008 by Debra

This is the write up on gang signals from wiki. Bolded text and links are mine.

Gangs often establish distinctive, characteristic identifiers including graffiti tags[18] colors (red, white and blue), hand-signals, clothing, jewelry, hair styles, fingernails, slogans[911,support the troops,], signs such as the swastika, the noose, or the burning cross[20], flags for example the Confederate flag, secret greetings (or meetings), slurs(terrorists, liberals), or code words (freedom, WMD,intelligence) and other group-specific symbols associated with the gang’s common beliefs, rituals, and mythologies to define and differentiate themselves from rival groups and gangs.[]As an alternative language, signs, symbols, and slurs in speech, graffiti, print, music, or other mediums communicate specific informational cues used to threaten, disparage, taunt, harass, intimidate, alarm, influence[23], or exact specific responses including obedience, submission, fear, or terror. One study focused on terrorism and symbols states: “… Symbolism is important because it plays a part in impelling the terrorist to act and then in defining the targets of their actions.”[24] Displaying a gang sign, such as the noose, as a symbolic act can be construed as “… a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience…an offense against property or involving danger to another person that may include but is not limited to recklessly endangering another person, harassment, stalking, ethnic intimidation, and criminal mischief.”[25] [Read more…] about Gangs or… “Torture? What Torture?”

Filed Under: america, Canada, Harper, Politics, war Tagged With: Bush, Canada, gangs, terrorism, torture, war, YouTube

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

01/19/2008 by Debra

An article in The Star today tells us to stop focusing on headlines (ironic no? ) and recognize that things make the headlines because they are less likely to happen on a regular basis;

A: I call that “headline bias” – when something makes the news, people think it happens a lot. But the reason something makes the headlines is because it doesn’t happen a lot.

To my mind, public reaction is not in co-ordination with the actual statistics.

Toronto is actually quite a safe city, better than most American and Canadian cities. And the level of violent crime has stayed pretty steady over the past few years.

Having moved from fairly small Lindsay to fairly big Hamilton, I can’t say I feel any less safe here. And so in the spirit of the article enjoy some Bobby Mcferrin;

Filed Under: media, violence Tagged With: crime stats, perception, safety, The Star, YouTube

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