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Blawg Wisdom Issues
If you haven't visited Blawg Wisdom recently you've missed a few great updates from myself and Kristine, including a request for input on the future of the site. If you have thoughts on that, I'd love to hear them, but here's something perhaps even more important:
Someone has somehow embedded some crappy pop-up ad on Blawg Wisdom! I don't have a clue how they did this except that the site was hacked around the new year and I assume they got this in then. The trouble is I can't see how to get rid of it. It's an embedded image on the page; you can't see it b/c it's an invisible gif but it triggers a popup. You can see it's there if you use Firefox and choose “Page Info” from the tools media, then click the “Media” tab.
So there it is. The question: Do you know how I can get rid of this? Looking at the page source doesn't reveal it, and it's not in the MT template, so what the heck? Any ideas?
Posted 02:27 PM | Comments (7) | meta-blogging
Ambivalent Question: The Cartoon Conundrum
The right column should now feature a new Ambivalent Question, namely: What do you think about the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed?
I'm sure you know the basic situation, but I'll recap briefly as I understand it: A year or so ago a Dutch newspaper published some cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Many Muslims believe “it is forbidden” to depict the Prophet in any way. (I put that in quotes b/c I'm not clear where this prohibition originates. Is it in the Koran? Did some religious figure make this rule up? Is it tradition? I don't know.) A group of Dutch Muslims brought these cartoons to the attention of some Imams and other Muslim religious leaders and when they were recently republished in France many Muslims began protesting and much violence has been threatened (although I don't know of any actual violence yet).
UPDATE: Danish embassy torched in Syria.
So that's my understanding of the situation. Tony has helpfully published a collection of the cartoons in question. So what do you think? The poll and comments are wide open...
Posted 11:26 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack | ambivalent questions
I, Postmodernist?
This quiz brought to me by Lyco: What is Your World View? You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.
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Posted 09:44 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack | life generally
