Comments on: We Are the Boss of You

By: Amber de Katt

Amber de Katt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:00:57 +0000

Looking at LOLcats will help just about anything.

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:50:30 +0000

Just to give credit where it's due, that rather brilliant cartoon is from Randall Munroe's comic xkcd 386. TRiG.

By: Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:36:53 +0000

I just want to say that since reading this post, I’ve been blogging more often because I’m less self-conscious about laying down the law when the discussion takes ugly turns. I’ve started using the phrase “The Conversation We Won’t Be Having Here” to refer to derailing topics that are specifically verboten on a post.

By: The Other Caitlin

The Other Caitlin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:47:14 +0000

I thought of this thread when I saw this cartoon: http://www.appletreeblog.com/wp-content/2008/02/duty-calls-cartoon.jpg

So funny and true!

By: colin

colin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:56:59 +0000

It is wrong to “second that comment” when you have 396 comments in front of you, most of whom agree however I will.
Quality before quantity although you all do pretty well on both counts.
Look what happened to Paul at BFB, between requiring registration and banning anyone who disagreed with him he gets 4-5 comments a post and zero interaction with his readers. I do not know what his readership is but they must be going elsewhere to participate.

By: Grafton

Grafton — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:28:36 +0000

Perhaps very little point.

By: The Other Caitlin

The Other Caitlin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:39:24 +0000

@aliciamaud74 Wow, that’s quite a story about your writing student. Thanks for sharing.

I found the stuff about masculinity interesting and would be keen to read a thread on it at some point.

By: Sweet Machine

Sweet Machine — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:15:44 +0000

TRiG, it turned out I saved your comment from the spam filter only to have it kicked into the mod queue (also for the links). I don’t know if it’s possible to implement what you describe, but we’ll keep in mind the suggestion.

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:39:59 +0000

Who is the “you” here? The completely automatic spam filter?

Yes. Sorry, that was badly phrased. What I meant was, Can you please configure your site to give a message when a post is blocked, instead of failing silently leaving the impression that there has been an error. If I hadn’t copied my text before posting, so I could simply paste and repost, I would have spent several minutes typing it out again. This would have been annoying. (And I wouldn’t have typed it the exact same, so I wouldn’t have seen the duplicate content warning, so there would now be two or perhaps more versions languishing in the spam queue.)

I’m not familiar with WordPress, but I get the impression that it’s fairly configurable. Just a request/suggestion.

I’d like a preview feature too, but I haven’t seen that on any WordPress blog, so I suspect it’s not possible. When I get around to writing blog software ….

I just went and found your comment and approved it

I can’t see it.

TRiG.

By: AnthroK8

AnthroK8 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:04:13 +0000

Eleventy One: There’ s a History of Costuming thesis in what elements of period dress make it into a costume design and which elements don’t. One can tell that A Man For All Seasons was made in the 60′s because, although the Tudor Gowns Looked Tudor, the color scheme was avocado green and harvest gold with heavy emphasis on mascara.

I think Cate Blanchett’s transformation at the end of the film Elizabeth I is interesting. She went from late-90′s long hair and brow to a into a white-powdered, brow-plucked bewigged monarch who was going to declare herself asexual to the world.

I understand from a museum exhibit I went to recently that one of the ways art forgeries are discovered in the World of Art is that, in the decades after a piece is made, you can see elements from the time it originated. The exhibit had an example of an “Egyptian” sculpture that looked an awful lot like a flapper to me. It was made in the 20′s, but because the 20′s had its idea of what heads look like when they are “natural” no one saw it at the time.