Interesting Links for 22-11-2012

• Why we should increase indirect taxes
  (tags: tax )
• How the Lord Of The Rings movies tore Tolkein's family apart.
  (tags: Tolkien movies books family )
• An official petition to remove The Church of England from the House of Lords, as they aren't willing to allow women bishops.
  (tags: petition women religion uk politics )
• Scotland passes law to end homelessness (I'd like more details about how it will work)
  (tags: scotland homelessness )
• Monty Python fans have voted to block women directors
  (tags: satire funny montypython religion women )
• The UK has the worst social mobility in the developed world
  (tags: EpicFail society uk )
• So you want people to remix your music... (How to put together a remix pack)
  (tags: howto remix music )
• Remember that scary undersea "bloop" noise? At last we know what caused it.
  (tags: sea water noise )
• Turns out you can assault someone live on stage and broadcast it to the nation without anyone complaining
  (tags: society tv RapeCulture )
• This is pretty much how I feel when people talk about their beliefs.
  (tags: comic religion )

Semagic and Dreamwidth

I keep meaning to get the laptop set up so I can post to DW from it. And then wanting my semagic macros. And then forgetting. So here's a post written at the desktop that I can use when I'm over at my other computer. And tag so I can find it later!

First, how to set semagic up to post to Dreamwidth.

Username:
<user name=[lj0] site=livejournal.com>

Embedding videos and suchlike:
<site-embed>[lj0]</site-embed>

Making a block of text smaller
<span style="font-size:smaller">[lj0]</span>

(For those who are curious I have these set up to keyboard shortcuts, so I can type andrewducker, select it, hit Ctrl-Alt-U and get andrewducker automatically. This is basically why I like semagic - ctrl-alt-i for an image, ctrl-b for bold, etc. As a heavy keyboard user it's incredibly useful.)