Helen’s been obsessing with her new iPod, and with iTunes. Her most recent delighted discovery has been how easy it is to make themed playlists using the iTunes search and filtering functions. In the case of her new Fibonacci Playlist, she had to go and buy an MP3 for number 34.
See how you do: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34…
Try as I might I can’t stop reading Tom Coates at plasticbag.org. He has some thoughtful things to say about the new BBC R3 website and its URL design.
For those of you at the back not paying attention, this is about a careful effort to make sure that the valuable and often wonderful content the BBC makes available remains available.
del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. A what? It’s kept me obsessively refreshing Sharpreader these past few weeks.
Once you’ve registered with del.icio.us you can add sites of interest to your list via a quick bookmarklet you’ve dragged onto your browser’s toolbar. The social thing comes from the fact you can see everyone else’s lists and can consume them as RSS feeds.
Going on a road trip soon, to California, Colorado and Nevada. So I went iTunes shopping.
As Jo (Dr Cavagin), an colleague of Helen from the research unit at the Royal Holloway used to say, Shy bairns get nowt
. So I asked a few psychologists if they’d help out with the Psychowiki and have the ok so far from the fantastic Prof Elizabeth Loftus, Prof Noam Chomsky and Prof Baron-Cohen, with the proviso that they’re all v. busy people.
Installation of MediaWiki (v1.3beta3) was easy but configuring it to my liking’s a bit more of a problem.
After Helen noticed how high on Google we were for phrases like Freud is Rubbish (1st) and Zimbardo Milgram (1st) she decided we should use the placing responsibly. So we’re setting up a Psychology Wiki for her students.
State-funded secondary school Emmanuel College hit the headlines when it was discovered that senior staff, including the Head Teacher, promoted fundamentalist creationism.
When you define a font in CSS you should always use one of the generic fonts, either as the only option or as the last option in the font-family. For example:
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
No doubt everyone knows about serif and sans-serif generic fonts in CSS. But wait. There’s more. CSS specs give five generic fonts. Here we are then:
This is an example of your generic serif font.
