These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 07/20/08 … please enjoy:
Halo 3’s ‘Enemies KIA’ Body Count Officially Passes Earth’s Population | OhGizmo!
The game?s official ?Enemies KIA? body count surpassed the Earth?s population sometime late on June 20 or early on June 21. At that point the Halo 3 Campaign Kill Count numbered 6,719,996,560, while the estimated world population was 6,705,066,871
IE 8 Beta 2 out by September 2008 | The Industry Standard
This is a prediction that Microsoft will meet or beat that self-assigned deadline and will publicly release IE 8 beta 2 on or before August 31st, 2008.
This.Film.Is.Not.Yet.Rated. | Google Video
This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt.
Army Shoots Live Pigs, PETA Squeals | ABC News
Army to Shoot Live Pigs in Hawaii in Trauma Training Drill for Soldiers Heading to Iraq. The Army says it’s critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated.
Scientists find why we need to re-read a page | Telegraph
Scientists have discovered why people sometimes need to re-read a page. According to a study the brain needs a specific chemical in order to concentrate properly.
Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species | Slashdot
As of a week ago, the number of creatures in the “Spore” database exceeded the number of known species on Earth. They are created using ‘Creature Creator,’ which is available in a free (with limited parts) or paid download at the Spore website.
Come back for more links tomorrow!!
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WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” is now available… read here. I’ve had nothing but goodness from the betas and release candidate, so great job to those who worked on this release!!
Here’s a quick look at the changes between v2.5 and 2.6:
- Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
- Plugin update notification bubble.
- Customizable default avatars.
- You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
- Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
- Ability to move your
wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Awesome! I’ve already updated and all looks good!
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 yesterday, apparently just hours before Beta 3 was released. Go me, apparently! Welp, I’ve just upgraded (again) and am now running Beta 3.
If you wish to download this release, go snag it here:
WordPress 2.6 Beta 3
Enjoy!
WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 came out while I was on vacation, so I just now have upgraded. There is a huge amount of fixes (and luckily the inserting of images is one!) so if you’re still on Beta 1, now’s the time to upgrade!
That’s about it for now… oh! Go play with Twitter. It’s quite fun!
WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 is out and I’ve upgraded the blog to the new version. There are some pretty cool additions (like Post Revisioning) and so far seems pretty stable!
Check it out here: WordPress 2.6 Beta 1
Release Info:
Post Revisioning
A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
Built-in word counting in the post editor
The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
XML-RPC API for changing blog options
Better SSL support for the Admin
Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
The ability to relocate your content directory
The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
Customizable default avatars
Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
Check box range selection with shift-click
TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
jQuery UI 1.5
Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements
Enjoy!
