Updated: I've released a small update for the theme which includes support for the most recent version of FlickrRSS (4.0). If you want to just use the new version of the plugin, simply download the theme package, unzip, and replace the flickrrss.php on your server (/wp-content/plugins/flickrrss.php) with the one inside the plugins folder in the Minimalia 1.2.1 package. -~- The latest version of the theme incorporates a few changes, most notably incredibly compressed javascript for the ...More »

What a strange name for a WordPress theme I suppose you've questioned. The name came to me as a word to describe the way in which Matt and I approached this theme, which he previously used on matthewgood.org. When adding new features, we had to develop a very minimalist approach which was both elegant yet highly functional. It's no different with this public theme. Support for Gravatars, Category Tag Cloud, and Slickr Gallery, combined with built-in ...More »

I was away for the weekend, but in reading Matt's post wished I was around to add my two cents to the discussion surrounding the already torrented copies of Hospital Music flying around the internet. Firstly, I wanted to say that Matt and I are both extremely happy with the responses to the streamed album, and I have appreciated the compliments that have been sent regarding my work setting things up. Secondly, I wanted to note here ...More »

Add this to the grist; add it to the dump pile of 'evidence' mounting that is still incredulously ignored; add it to the long list of "I told you so" and "We were warned of": From Truthout: Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming. They also implicitly criticise the UN's ...More »

Though they use no telescreens, they don't need them. The FBI has a powerful, but extremely secretive investigative tool that can pry into telephone and internet records when searching out those wretched evildoers. But secretive it is no more. Think Progress relays that "Just one day after a news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more than 1000 times, a federal judge ordered the agency Friday to begin turning ...More »