This could change your life. A little.
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Yesterday, I talked about why we should look for a history of life on Mars, and had an article for SEED magazine to that effect.
One of my favourite 70s songs, below the fold: "Life's a Long Song", by Jethro Tull, from the 1971 EP of the same name. For some reason the final episode of Battlestar Galacticaput this in my head.
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States (Open Access). Here's the most interesting finding for me:
You know, I think I could get used to this. Just installed the plugin, and editing comment using gedit now. I usually have a gedit session open for various reasons anyway, so this might come in quite handy.
It's all text is very useful (admittedly I use it on a mac with emacs not on linux).
Emma
Hmm... I dunno. Handy for doing proper editing, I guess. Syntax highlighting on HTML stuff. I'll try it the next time I write up a big post, though Wordpress' built-in TinyMCE is actually pretty good.
Handy, but not quite seamless with Twitter or bit.ly. In both cases it populates the textarea but doesn't seem to update the "number of characters remaining" until you click inside the box.
not to be too much of a downer, but I would prefer to continue using copy/paste when I want to type enough to want a real editor
OK, let's try this out on a Windoze machine. There's a little button and when I click on it (having set the preferences), Notepad++ comes up. Now to hit "save".
And now for an update. I'll hit "save" again.
Probably set it up with GEdit on my Ubuntu machines. Shiny!