These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• Portfolio2 theme for Word­Press | Raygun

  “Portfolio2 is a clean and func­tional Word­Press port­fo­lio theme to dis­play your fine-​​art, design, or pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s a great theme for any­one who needs an easy and attrac­tive way to dis­play their work on the web. It’s highly flex­i­ble; you can use it as-​​is or cus­tomize it to your lik­ing with the built-​​in CSS edi­tor. Portfolio2 comes with the Port­fo­lio Slideshow Pro plu­gin, our pow­er­ful and easy-​​to-​​use slideshow plu­gin for Word­Press. Portfolio2 includes sev­eral dif­fer­ent slideshow for­mats and addi­tional options for theme customization.”
  
  word­press theme

• Port­fo­lio Slideshow Pro | slideshow plu­gin for WordPress

  “Port­fo­lio Slideshow Pro is an advanced slideshow plu­gin for Word­Press. All of the exam­ples posted here can be cre­ated with Port­fo­lio Slideshow Pro. Add an unlim­ited num­ber of slideshows to your site, each with its own cus­tom options.”
  
  word­press plu­gin the­month­lyis­sue

• Melville | Raygun

  “Melville was our first Word­Press theme, and it’s avail­able for free. Inspired by clas­sic lit­er­a­ture, we wanted to cre­ate a theme with no wid­gets, no distractions—just a clean, beau­ti­ful design that focuses the atten­tion on your writing.”
  
  word­press themes the­month­lyis­sue

• Explo­ration Through Exam­ple » Blog Archive » My story about cyclo­matic complexity

  ‘As usual, we ought to leave the grand claims about “the way humans are” or “the way that it is best to live/​work” to psy­chol­o­gists and preach­ers. Amongst our­selves, per­haps we should just say things like “I’ve been doing this one kind of fairly spe­cific thing recently, and I’ve been sur­prised to find that X has been really help­ful to me. Maybe it will help you too.”’
  
  software-​​development met­rics legacy-​​code com­plex­ity prag­ma­tism sound-​​advice what-​​gets-​​measured-​​gets-​​fudged

• Kar­to­graph – rethink mapping

  
  via:arthegall map­ping car­tog­ra­phy beau­ti­ful visu­al­iza­tion pro­jec­tions graphic-​​design

• ‘A Test You Need to Fail’: A Teacher’s Open Let­ter to Her 8^th Grade Stu­dents | Com­mon Dreams

  “Because what I hadn’t known—this is my first time grad­ing this exam—was that it doesn’t mat­ter how well you write, or what you think. Here we spent the year read­ing books and emu­lat­ing great writ­ers, con­struct­ing leads that would make every­one want to read our work, devel­op­ing a voice that would engage our read­ers, using our imag­i­na­tions to make our work unique and impor­tant, and, most of all, being hon­est. And none of that mat­ters. All that mat­ters, it turns out, is that you cite two facts from the read­ing mate­r­ial in every answer. That gives you full credit. You can com­pose a “Get­tys­burg Address” for the 21^st cen­tury on the appor­tioned lines in your test book­let, but if you’ve pro­vided only one fact from the text you read in prepa­ra­tion, then you will earn only half credit. In your con­structed response—no mat­ter how well writ­ten, cor­rect, intel­li­gent, noble, beau­ti­ful, and mean­ing­ful it is—if you’ve not col­lected any spe­cific facts from the pro­vided read­ings (even if you hap­pen to know more infor­ma­tion about the cho­sen topic than the read­ings pro­vide), then you will get a zero.”
  
  stan­dards standard-​​setting-​​play culture-​​war edu­ca­tion disintermediation-​​targets

• Canon­i­cal form (Boolean alge­bra) — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  things I never learned
  
  boolean-​​algebra discrete-​​mathematics algo­rithms canonical-​​form

• “What’s an open stan­dard?” says ISO — Pub­lic Sec­tor IT

  “The BSI has already admit­ted it did not know why it was lob­by­ing against the UK’s open stan­dards pol­icy, only that is what it had been told to do by ISO in Geneva. ISO in turn says its pol­icy is formed by con­stituents like BSI. Does any­one know what’s going on? BSI’s res­i­dent stan­dards experts are from non-​​IT, engi­neer­ing fields. It’s pub­lic pol­icy expert is a career stan­dards wonk who can­not explain its soft­ware pol­icy either. It was no sur­prise this week there­fore when ISO was also unable to give Com­puter Weekly any exam­ples of when it’s pol­icy might be jus­ti­fied. That is, when it might be jus­ti­fied for a patent holder to make a claim on a soft­ware stan­dard. Nei­ther could BSI.”
  
  pol­i­tics cultural-​​dynamics intellectual-​​property standard-​​setting-​​play kafkaesque