The dazzling new images of this turbulent ball of gas were captured on August 27th, as Juno executed the first of 36 orbital flybys that brought it just 2,500 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops. It took a day and a…
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Lee Drutman: How race and identity became the central dividing line in American politics – Vox
It is now Democrats who appear benefit from culture and identity being the central issue in American politics, at least in a national election like the one for president. And as the Democrats are increasingly split internally by class, this…
Posted in Noted & Quoted, Politics, US History Tagged with: Democratic Party, Race, Republican Party
Mussolini message to future revealed under Rome obelisk – BBC News
It was not unusual in the Renaissance for medals to be placed under obelisks, the researchers explain. But the discovery of a long, detailed text they call “unparalleled”… The irony of this text is that its discovery is predicated on…
Drilling a Hole in the Universe with WP_Query in a Shortcode
Placing a post whose content would include a version of the post itself (containing a version of the post itself, and so on) produces a site-crashing “reset overload” (ERR_CONNECTION_RESET). It’s easy to create the danger inadvertently, but also easy to prevent.
Posted in Using WordPress, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, has_shortcode(), Link-Posts Aggregator, strip_shortcodes(), The Loop
The Wheel Has Turned – “Fear” by @WardSutton
The answer not just to Shepard Fairey but to “Obamamania” that was to be expected – exactly.