Sunday, August 5, 2007

Video: The Vet Movement, Blogging & Ending the Iraq Occupation







Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) speak out against the occupation and for blogging and a veterans movement at YearlyKos Convention in a talk sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy, August 5, 2007.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

When A Picture Is Worth Only Expletives

"Report confirms climate change is a fact.

This graph shows the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere over the last 10,000 years (panel inset shows the increase since 1750) based on the study of ice cores. Different colors represent different studies. Radiative forcing indicates the influence a factor has on the amount of energy entering or leaving the earth's atmosphere and is an index of how important the factor is as a climate change mechanism. The higher it is, the more important it is.

Der Spiegel reports:
The United Nations on Friday issued its most dramatic warning yet about the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change on the planet. European political leaders say we must cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a climate change process that is already underway.
Climate change in the coming century may lead to disasters ranging from famine in Africa to the thinning of Himalayan glaciers, according to the long-awaited second part of an extensive United Nations report on global warming. More than 100 countries represented in the UN's panel on climate change spent a tense Thursday night in Brussels trying to agree unanimously on the language of a final draft.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Trying Out the Pullquotes

I have been wanting a new pullquote in the worse way, but I have been putting out fires all across the blogosphere, with no time for pullquote shopping!

...A pullquote is a nifty little item...


Well, it seems that tonight all fires have been extinguished. And surprise, surprise, I can actually make a change on my blog!

I have loved the blockquotes on Buttermilk Clouds ever since I started working with it. The lines are simple, elegant, and it sets off the text within the blockquote without distracting from the overall feel of the post. Tonight I started playing with the code to see if I could modify it enough to become a pullquote. The results are outstanding! (I get excited easily by the strangest things...when the code actually works the way I want, pullquotes, CSS...the list goes on.) So, here 'tis. As you can see, I made the font different, a bit larger, and centered.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The standard Lorem Ipsum passage, used since the 1500s

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC

"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"


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