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Tonights menu:

Blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes with your choice of 3 kinds of syrup: maple, huckleberry, or pansy and passion fruit.
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I need a wordpress plugin or method that allows me to show code in posts such that readers can cut and paste it out of the page and into their own application and have it work. Any ideas?

I have just implemented some nifty sidebar tabs for navigating around on this blog. I think they look great. They use the javascript provided at OnlineTools called DomTab (Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting). You can download and view the working example at the OnlineTools website. I searched out a way to do this after I saw the very neat navigation tabs used at AlwaysBeta and their post on how to use them. Unfortuneatly, I couldn’t figure out what they where doing (I’m a cut and paste / follow the example pattern kind of guy, and they didn’t provide much in the wat of how to [thats not a knock against them btw]). In the alwaysbeta version, they have incorporated some slick slide and fade effects — to savy for this guy. I’m just happy mine works (tested in IE, Opera, and FF using XP). » Read the rest of the entry..

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I have just updated the Alexa ranking for all of the social bookmarking sites used by Sociable (a wordpress plugin). You can see them all here, and read reviews (as they are created) for each site.

In the past week, all but one social bookmarking site currently tracked has increased in popularity — some sites dramatically. Interestingly enough, digg has passed del.icio.us as the number one social bookmarking site. This doesn’t indicate that digg is really more popular, perhaps more people who read digg also use the alexa toolbar (del.icio.us users maybe don’t use it as much). Regardless, all sites have improved indicating a general trend in web use:

People are relying less on traditional search engines and more on social bookmarking sites to find the information they are looking for. And why? I believe its because social bookmarking sites are peer reviewed while search engines are not. » Read the rest of the entry..

URI: www.Fark.com
Popularity: 3
Special Feature: Fark Classifieds

Why should I care:

Cracking the public side of Fark is pretty much impossible for the standard website, unless you use » Read the rest of the entry..

URI: www.digg.com
Popularity: 1
Special Feature: User voting, digg spy, digg cloud

Why should I care:

Digg is a very popular website, » Read the rest of the entry..

URI: del.icio.us
Popularity: 2
Special Feature: Widely used

Why should I care:

Del.icio.us is the number one social bookmarking site » Read the rest of the entry..