Andrew Cullison

I’ve been playing around with ways to allow philosophers to collectively generate some table of additional useful information about the journal for the journal surveys page, and I think I’ve found a really great way to do it. I can embed the following kind of table at the top of each journal page. If you [...]

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Sorry, but that was just too awesome not to post here. More philosophy and more journal survey updates are coming soon.

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Normally, when I see these photo-shopping scandals, some company or university adds someone from a minority race into a picture with photoshop. The goal, of course, is to appear more diverse. I just read this story from Engadget. It turns out that Microsoft Photoshopped an African-American out of a picture for it’s Poland Business IT [...]

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I found out this morning that my RSS feed wasn’t updating. In fact, it hasn’t been updating since August 6th. So, the last 23 posts haven’t shown up in the RSS feed! I found the culprit, and the feed is now updating properly. My apologies to my subscribers who are probably about to get 23 [...]

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If you’re using a spreadsheet application to record and calculate grades, then each year you have to get your list of students into the spreadsheet. You either do this manually, or you copy and paste the names from some list of your students online. But sometimes you might want a little more information next to [...]

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One thing I have absolutely no patience for is expandable advertisements. These are those banners that expand when the cursor runs across them. When I first signed up with the banner adnetwork, I set my permissions so that those were prohibited from this site. But looking at my site over the past few days, I’ve [...]

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If you haven’t seen it yet, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new look. It’s been up for a few weeks now (I think), but I haven’t had a chance to check it out until today. It looks great. It’s beautifully laid out, but it’s still nice and clean. Navigation through the site is [...]

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This is awesome. You know how Google Books has all of these digitized books online? It looks like they’re finally starting to partner with tech companies and book retailers. Sony is going to make public domain books available (for free) on their eReaders, and Barnes and Noble is going to let people download the books [...]

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