posts_nav_link()

Tue, 6 Sep 2005

I must be a troublemaker. I have run into roughly the same problem with posts_nav_link() as I did with the_content().
Unfortunately, my hackery didn’t work quite as well this time. My markup validates now, but I’ve got a bogus next-link that doesn’t belong there (when there actually isn’t a next page to go to). I will [...]

Fun with anagrams

Tue, 6 Sep 2005

Someone with too much time on his hands has created a pen name generator. Since the site is in French, here's a (probably slightly inaccurate) translation: As promised, here is a little program that will generate anagrams of your name. The difficulty was in guaranteeing that the first part of the pseudonym would always be a [...]

Photo op in hell

Tue, 6 Sep 2005

It turns out, not surprisingly, that the areas Bush toured in Biloxi were cleaned up only for his visit and then abandoned. Also unsurprisingly, the only reporting on this issue comes from German TV network ZDF. The American media is apparently taken in by the deception. Why is this a problem? Let me count the ways. The [...]

College rankings: the Revolution

Tue, 6 Sep 2005

I'd be the first to tell you that college rankings are not worth much more than the paper they're printed on. (How can anyone quantify the quality of education that I will receive at a given institution, which is what I really care about?) I'm especially critical of mainstream rankings, U.S. News & World Report [...]