Linkspam for 5-6-2008

[matgb]

• The Five Mistakes Clinton Made - TIME
  Time's analysis of the Clinton campaign failures. Personally, I always thought Barack was a better candidate, but for her cheif strategist to not actually understand how delegates are won? Gah! You can't win if you don't know the rules
  (tags: elections politics US+Politics hillary+clinton)
• CHASING BUSH II: Operation Manticore
  Dubbya's coming to visit. D'you fancy being annoying? I most certainly do. Nice little button in my sidebar coming right up...
  (tags: george+bush campaigns activism humour)
• Mark Steel: You want children to learn? Here's how to do it - The Independent
  Meant to link this yesterday, but as every other bugger has done it already I thought I might as well. Mark in 'state the obvious' shockâ”for a filthy Stopper trot he's quite switched on really.
  (tags: mark+steel education)
• Stumbling and Mumbling: Greens vs \"conventional economics\"
  I think Chris is right here, but not 100% sure, opinions? 'Conventional economics - which is distinct from plundering capitalism - can be the ally of environmentalists, not its opponent.'
  (tags: economics chris+dillow environmentalism)
• Why Obama won | Justin Webb | BBC | The Reporters
  10 reasons why Obama won from the BBC's US correspondent, they look about right to me. Point 10 is especially good, although I've not seen that series yet
  (tags: politics barack+obama US+Politics elections)
• President Matt Santos - Caramel Betty
  A character based on a real person wins a TV election campaign, the real person borrows from the character and wins a real election campaign. Circularity headache time?
  (tags: US+Politics politics barack+obama elections the+west+wing)
• Ten years of Mozilla - Mozilla Links
  A nice little summary of the history of Mozilla and Firefox, complete with nifty poster of the browser wars, found it in an old folder of links
  (tags: firefox history mozilla)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Oh - as you can see, my post came in "on time". Let me know if the code change works for you :->

[matgb]

Heh—now all you need to do is get in the habit of editing the post and disabling auto-formatting to get rid of all the excess linebreaks. And fiddling with your CSS to make it less ugly...

I'll try to play later, Teh Shrub has the PC with the FTP client on it currently, CBeebies is more important than Starcraft :-(

[andrewducker]

My CSS?

I has CSS?

disabling autoformatting would be good. You got yours up somewhere, so I can compare code?

[matgb]

Not yet, but this should work:

.delicious {
list-style:none;
}
.delicious ul {
padding:0px;
}
.delicious li {
border-bottom:2px dotted #000;
margin:0px 0px;
}
.delicious-link {
font-weight:bold;
text-align:left;
}
.delicious-link a:link  {
color:#ee5;
}
.delicious-tags {
  text-transform:uppercase;
  color:#ee5;
}
.delicious-tags a:after{
 content: ",";
}

You can simply add it in here:
http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml?group=customcss

And mess with the rest of your layout if you want. I keep tweaking mine, never have got it quite right.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, cool, cheers!

I also added a font-size:smaller to the tags, so that they didn't dominate the text when they're uppercased.

That, plus the code for disabling autoformatting will make me rather happy :->

(Oh - I also want to change the code slightly so it works off of time zones, rather than from a number of hours - but that's not urgent).

[matgb]

font-size:smaller

Good call, hadn't occured to me.

I don't know how to automatically disable auto-formatting, I have an email alert for when I post and just edit the post directly, tend to change the title and add better tags if I've time as well.

[matgb]

and
text-align: right;
works fairly well also, puts the tags where I prefer to have them in my layout and 'ends' the entry, which is nice.

[andrewducker]

I've just edited my script to not autoformat. I hope. I guess I'll find out tomorrow :->

[andrewducker]

Got it disabling the autoformat:

array(
'taglist'=>"delicious glue,links",
'opt_preformatted'=>true
);

Andy

[paulrattew.livejournal.com]

I am quite happy that Obama won the primary, but I do think that it will be a massive struggle for Obama to gain the White House. In fact, i think that although he may be the better of the two candidates he is the one who is the least likely to actually oust the Republican party.

CLinton and Obama split the party pretty badly, and a considerable number who voted for one will never vote for the other. This has meant that whoever won, the democrats were going to lose some of their own voters in the process. This is a major problem for Obama, as many of the states that he won (and that have won him the nomination) are states that are overwhelmingly republican. He will not even come close to winning the presidential vote in many of the states where he won the majority of delegates.

Manby of the states that Clinton won are naturally democrat states, or ones where the democrats are just ahead.

Obama therefore has a lot of work to do to try and win over Hilary supporters. If he fails it will be yet another four years of a republican president.

[matgb]

Manby of the states that Clinton won are naturally democrat states, or ones where the democrats are just ahead.

Which is why I'm looking at things the other way around. A lot of OBama voters switched to him from all over the place, but Hilary only really got the core vote. They'll mostly turn up and vote come November anyway, it'll be water under the bridge by then.

I really can't see McCain mobilising many—he's a placeholder old pope that'll get wiped out in a slate clearing way.

[misscoollinda.livejournal.com]

"Dubbya's coming to visit. D'you fancy being annoying? I most certainly do. Nice little button in my sidebar coming right up..."

I bought a political pin in porn shop while in Florida a few years back. It says "LICK BUSH".
Maybe some large signs with the same sentiment would be very annoying?

[matgb]

Something like that—it's going to be fun promoting the plans, anyway.