March 2012
45 posts
February 2012
29 posts
“KIDS AND GROWN-UPS LOVE IT SO, THE HAPPY WORLD OF HARIBO”
—Haribo
ChristianMingle.com →
christianmingle.com
I looked into buying AtheistMingle.com. It’s owned already, which warms my heart.
Are limitless resources or a certain number of constraints more beneficial for creativity? →
quora.com
Constraints impose discipline, otherwise creative output is inconsistent or nonexistent. Countless have dripped paint onto canvas, or action painted, but Jackson Pollock did so with such completeness and methodological conformity that his use of strict constraints is obvious. He used only certain colors, for example, of only specific liquid paints. Treating a piece uniformly, intentionally foregoing a focal point, is not easy. However, maybe that’s the idea. It is easy to think that such work is just a random mess. Cy Twombly also did great all-over paintings.
Mark Slee:
Highly creative people may easily overwhelm themselves with an incredible number of exciting new ideas, which can make it very difficult to actually execute on anything (I don’t have personal experience with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but I imagine there’s a reasonably strong analogy to be made here). Generating creative output (not just a deluge of ideas) requires finding a way to artificially suppress the firehose of competing new concepts, thereby enabling a more intense focus.
I need constraints. I need a lot of them.
How to center the How Blank Theme layout
This is a followup to this question. Copy and paste this into your custom CSS to center the layout:
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, li, blockquote, pre, .post, #content .post_photo .html_photoset,
#content .post_answer .question, #footer div {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
#content, #footer {margin-left: 0;}
#content p.postpagination {text-align: center;}
#content p.postpagination a span {display: none;}
#content p.postpagination a.previouspost:before {content: "\2190";}
#content p.postpagination a.nextpost:after {content: "\2192";}
#content .post_text {width: 468px;}
#content .post_photo p.container, #content .post_photoset p.container {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#content .post_photo p.container img.photo {margin-right: 0;}
#content .post_photo .html_photoset {width: 500px;}It works best with the header above the content, which was previously covered. Here is all of the code together:
#header {text-align: center; width: 100%; height: 36px;}
#header li, #header li.pages, #header li.archive, #header li.rss {
display: inline;
margin-right: 9px;
}
#header li.logo, #header li.portrait_circle {display: none;}
#header li.twitter span {display: none;}
#header li.twitter a .twitter_word {display: inline;}
#header li.groupmembers img.photo {
margin-top: -3px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
a.head:link, a.head:visited {color: black; text-decoration: none;}
a.head:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
a.head:active {color: black;}
#content {margin-top: 45px;}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, li, blockquote, pre, .post, #content .post_photo .html_photoset,
#content .post_answer .question, #footer div {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
#content, #footer {margin-left: 0;}
#content p.postpagination {text-align: center;}
#content p.postpagination a span {display: none;}
#content p.postpagination a.previouspost:before {content: "\2190";}
#content p.postpagination a.nextpost:after {content: "\2192";}
#content .post_text {width: 468px;}
#content .post_photo p.container, #content .post_photoset p.container {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#content .post_photo p.container img.photo {margin-right: 0;}
#content .post_photo .html_photoset {width: 500px;}Be careful out there.
Special Characters for HTML, CSS and JS →
ikwebdesigner.com
This is a great resource for HTML special characters. It also explains How To Use them, which is nice. You don’t have to remember anything.
How to use special characters for any or all of the info links at the bottom of posts using How Blank ThemeCopy and paste this into your custom CSS, under Advanced in the Customize appearance area:
#content .post p.info_index .rebloggedfrom a span,
#content .post p.info_index a.permalink span,
#content .post p.info_index a.notecount span,
#content .post p.info_index a.reblog span {
display: none;
}
#content .post p.info_index .rebloggedfrom a:before {content: "\21E0";}
#content .post p.info_index a.permalink:before {content: "\25B2";}
#content .post p.info_index a.notecount:before {content: "\270F";}
#content .post p.info_index a.reblog:before {content: "\21BA";}
#content .post p.info_index a.secondary {
font: 2.4em/1.4em Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", Verdana, sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
}
#content .post p.info_index .tags a.secondary {
font: 1.0em/1.4em "Lucida Grande", Verdana, sans-serif;
}The focus here is on the content: "\21E0"; stuff. Replace those alphanumerical codes with the special characters you like. This also increases the font-size of the links to make the special characters more obvious. The info links look like this by default (with the Show lines, Show notes, and Show Reblog link options checked):
They look like this after using the CSS above:
You can figure out how to do this with almost any theme, not just the best one.
Campaign for "santorum" neologism →
en.wikipedia.org
In a June 2011 interview, Santorum said, “There are foul people out there who do horrible things. It’s unfortunate some people thought it would be a big joke to make fun of my name. That comes with the territory.”
The territory of bigotry is perilous.
