This doesn’t affect Shapely Prose, but Lindsay asked that I pass along this note about a bug she’s encountered in WP 2.6, since much of the fatosphere is probably using it.
There is a bug in the recently released version of WordPress (2.6). As far as i’m aware, it’s not affecting blogs hosted on wordpress.com, but it will create [...]
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A few people have e-mailed me wondering why only abbreviated versions of SP posts are now showing up in their feed readers (and requesting that I change it back to full posts). Just so y’all know, I would love to change it back, but I changed it in the first place because Sweet Machine ran [...]
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Marina of Big Moves — even if you don’t know Big Moves, and you should, you’ll remember her as the author of “28 Days to a Bikini Mind” — wrote to us today with a request for support. Here’s her email:
Here’s the deal. We’ve been going to the Montreal Fringe Festival for the past [...]
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You know, comments are simultaneously the best and the worst thing about blogging. The immediate feedback is gratifying, often educational, and (at least around here) usually fun. I love getting to “know” the regular readers of the blog who participate (though I don’t forget about you lurkers, either), and I’ve even developed a few real-life [...]
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I got on a little graphics kick this weekend because of the new icons (yes, Kate will have one, but it still needs some tweaking). The end result is that there are three new shirts up on the Shapely Prose store, including one that features the new Aunt Fattie graphic (debuting tomorrow) in all [...]
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One thing we’ve consistently had bloggerly trouble with around here is people getting confused about who writes which post. Our WordPress layout doesn’t help us out, so we put our icons in our posts to help out. However, given that FJ and I are pseudonymous and Kate isn’t, people still tend to get confused, since [...]
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I mentioned this in the haiku thread, but I don’t want to constrain people to feeling they have to express their vote in haiku! I changed the default avatars to “MonsterID,” just to see how it looked — I felt like maybe it would fit the tone of the blog better than those geometric [...]
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A few things I’ve been meaning to mention…
1) The magazine that’s working on reproducing the BMI project is still actively looking for more women of color and women in their 40s and 50s to submit photos. If you fall into one or both of those categories, and either the overweight or obese BMI category, and [...]
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Very sad news, in case you missed this in the feed. Fat rights activist and NAAFA Board member Jeanne Toombs has passed away from complications of pneumonia. There’s a tribute to her at NAAFA’s MySpace blog, with contact info for those who wish to send condolences.
You can read about Jeanne’s efforts to push forward the [...]
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I missed my own damn blogiversary.
I always think of April 1 as the day I officially switched over from Pointless, Incessant Barking to Shapely Prose, but as that post shows, it was actually March 30, 2007. I have been doing this for a year and a day now.
Thank you SO FUCKING MUCH to all the [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
