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via Kate Moss in Ripped Black Shirt | kabl.am. Thanks for letting me share your love of moss in the same way Frangry.

via YouTube - Ghostland Observatory - Dancing to Vibrate.

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bebe le strange | bohemea:sharpless: Bettie Page.

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Obama: The College Years - Photo Essays - TIME.

Paul Jenkins with a a reasonable take on Rick Warren speaking at the Obama inauguration:

Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is, if possible, even worse. He shrinks Warren’s grotesque comparisons down to a “disagreement,” as if we were talking about ethanol subsidies. But we are not. In fact, we are not even talking about marriage rights, we are talking about demonizing an entire group of Americans for the purpose of religious indoctrination, political gain and financial profit. Or doing so out of sheer hatred and idiocy. Or both.

via I am Matt Thomas » Regarding Rick Warren.

This is distressing in so many ways, George is amazing and this is mind boggling.

Sent a quick, unsatisfying goodbye to the team. I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, just in the hope that it still existed. But no. I was shut out entirely within about 14 hours of the phone call.

…

Got on the flight to Hong Kong. Now on Hong Kong to Sydney, where I sit now, annoyed by everyone. Still shocked. So fucking brutal.

Not what I had in mind at all.

via kewlchops: Not quite what I had in mind. via Daring Fireball

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Version 0.2 of the Art Direction Plugin is now available.

Totally crude. I’m sorry, but it’s just too funny not to share.

via YouTube - Jizz In My Pants.

I have no words for this image, found via Dave Shea

Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife has launched a solo project titled Fever Ray.

“I had so many songs to record that I just had to make an album. I thought I was going to have a longer break but I guess it will never happen. I can’t stop working. My aim was to finish the album and now that it’s done I’m a bit restless,” said Karin.

via Spacelab Music News - Karin of The Knife Gets Prolific and Goes Solo With Fever Ray.

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Life is fragile and the recession doesn’t help. But, when working for a millionaire you generally view your job as safe (smart boss, smart decisions). But Denton appears to be throwing the good hard workers out left and right. It’s a firesale at Gawker, anyone want in?

Oh, and by the way, they just had a rager for their new office with custom designed desks and a brand new roof deck. Awesome!

via Consumer Reports In Talks To Buy Consumerist Blog Amid More Gawker Media Cuts - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY:

Since putting Consumerist on the block, Denton’s been making rolling layoffs at the company: project manager Cia Bernales, technical producer Jory Stiefel, and community administrator Kaila Hale-Stern all learned last night that they’d been let go. Additionally, Sangraal Aiken, a senior Java developer, has gone from “a full-time employee to a contractor paid by the hour at a reduced rate,” a source within the company says.

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Update: Version 0.2 is now available. This fixes a small bug that may result in duplicate styles.

Short story:

I wrote a plugin (it’s in beta) available over here: WordPress › Art Direction. The tagline is “Per-post styles for new age art direction.”

Long story:

Automation is the king of convenience. It’s also a killer of creativity and quality. Examples: MP3 vs. Vinyl, Transistors/Diodes vs. Tubes, Xerox vs. Letterpress, Digital vs. Film. The newer technologies allow a quicker route to (perceived) gratification, but the older technologies always deliver a superior end result.

Web sites have gone from home-grown concoctions of HTML thrown together with bits of glue and tape,  to vast content management systems automating the entire process. It’s lowered the barrier of entry for publishing on the Web, but it’s also sucked away the creativity.

I’ve been in love with blogging and feel that CMS’s are the way of the future. But, I’ve also been feeling an ever increasing homogenization on the web - in part because of the low barrier of entry for publishing, and the finite amount of designs available to most individuals - and the static nature of these designs.

Earlier this year two things happened on the web that opened my eyes. I designed a theme for WordPress.com, Monotone. It took colors from an image and used them to surround the image and create a somewhat dynamic and unique experience for each entry. A nice blend of dynamic and static qualities.

Elsewhere, a little after the launch of Monotone, Jason Santa Maria redesigned his site using EE - the horror! ;) - to give him more control over each entry’s design. It was a brilliant use of technology!

But, I don’t want to pay for my content management system when there is already a superior, Open Source, and extensible system available. (I’m talking about WordPress.)

So, I wrote a plugin to provide me with the ability to add styles/javascript/whatever I wanted to each entry, I call it Art Direction. It’s in beta right now. So, help me make it better, so we can all enjoy a little more flexibility and creativity.

Caveat: it may invalidate your code, depending on how you use the plugin (due to inline styles). This is a temporary problem.

Author of Newsweek’s recent cover story, Lisa Miller, talked to us yesterday about the religious right’s reaction to her article debunking popular myths about the Bible’s stance on marriage.

via Take Action: Don’t let the religious right drown out the voices for equality!.