Month: December 2013

In Praise of the Website Previously Known as Google Art Project

In Praise of the Website Previously Known as Google Art Project

Google Art Project, while still obscure, has grown up a bit. It has taken on a new name: The Google Cultural Insitute. How truly stuffy of them. Art Project had such a nice simple ring to it. Want to learn about art? Go to the Google Art Project! Now you have to attend the Cultural …

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Faking it: How strict is your curriculum?

Faking it: How strict is your curriculum?

We have a new person joining our Humanities team next semester. He’s going to dive head first into our curriculum and I’m worried that he’ll drown under the weight of 2000 years of philosophy, art and literature. I’m sure he’ll be fine. As I was preparing the curriculum chart for the next semester, I thought …

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Curious Spammers

Curious Spammers

After my previous post, which complained about spam comments, I received more spam comments than I’ve ever gotten before. I checked, and my Captcha filter is working… so I don’t know how in the name of heaven that could happen. 225 spam comments from all over the internet. I found this wonderful plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/delete-pending-comments/ and …

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