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Category: funny, music, video, youtube
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Just edit some Wikipedia-specific CSS:
How can I hide the images using my personal Wikipedia settings?
If you are offended by the images (and you have an account), you can change your personal settings so that you don’t have to see them, without affecting other users. This is done by modifying your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) page, which is individual to each user.
To do this:
- Click on this link to modify your monobook.css page
- If no page is there already, just go ahead and create a page
- Add the following line to your css page:
body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;}This will permanently hide the images on the article for you as long as you are logged in.
From Talk:Muhammad/FAQ
Category: religion, wikipedia
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First there was Lawrence Lessig, then Cory Doctorow (or was it the other way around?) who offered the complete texts of their books online, for free. You could read them on the Web site, download them, read them on your computer in Word, put them on your phone, iPod and/or eBook. Finally, you could print your own copy. Many readers ended up buying the publisher-printed copy anyway. Those who didn’t make the purchase probably wouldn’t have regardless of the availability of the free version. Other authors have started to follow.
And all was good.
But where were the publishers in all of this?
Then came the Baen Free Library. Long-time publisher of science fiction and fantasy, Baen offers more than 100 complete titles in formats from HTML to Rocket eBook (there’s a dead format) to RTF. Just read online or download it to go. 4.6 million visits later, they’re periodically adding new titles.
Neil Gaiman’s publisher, HarperCollins, has started offering complete book for free online. Neil recently asked his readers to pick which of his books would be offered up. Much to his surprise, his largest book, American Gods was chosen and will be made available in the near future. I was excited. I’m not any longer. The problem is that in order to read the book you must do so on their site, in their reader. The books are not portable in any way, shape, or form. Sure, you can search the contents (nice) and you can embed the book into your site (a la YouTube) but how does that help me read it on my device, when I want, when I don’t have a WiFi connection?
Close, but no soup for you!
Next on deck, TOR books. Publisher of Cory Doctorow and many, many other authors I love to read. (L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Brian Lumley, and Brian Herbert, just to name a few.) They’re about to launch their new site "Watch the Skies" and if you sign up, they’ll e-mail you the link to a free eBook every week. No word on the level of control that they’ll give you over said books but with Cory Involved and the word "download" being bandied about, I have all sorts of hope.
So publisher’s, who’s next?
Category: L.E. Modesitt Jr, corydoctorow, creativecommons, ebooks
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Toshiba Officially Drops HD DVD
19
Feb 2008
Following several days of rumors, Toshiba has confirmed that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, effectively ending the high-def format war.
Toshiba Officially Drops HD DVD | High-Def Digest
Yes folks, it’s finally officially over. Can we all shut up about it now. (Of course, this means I picked the wrong side no matter how justified. Let the fire sales on the discs commence.)
Category: HD-DVD
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