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Links for Thursday 4 February 2010

When Science & Poetry Were Friends - The New York Review of Books: I liked this Freeman Dyson article from last year, recounting the scientific world of 1770-1830 and comparing it to today.
LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts: An article from May 2009 about the @ sign, followed by some fascinating letters about what it’s called in other countries.
Byrnereese’s mt-plugin-profiler at master - GitHub: Hopefully useful Movable Type plugin for working out which bits of your templates are taking ages to rebuild.
Melody: Community Powered Publishing: An in-development open source CMS designed to be compatible with Movable Type. Not sure why, but maybe it’s interesting…?

4 Feb 2010 at Twitter

09:44am: @anothersam Let me know if you need a second eye on your Movable Type problem - I'm not very busy today.
10:13am: Having upgraded to Movable Type 5 yesterday, the admin interface's "News" widget is now announcing Movable Type 4.3 in July 2009...
11:01am: @anothersam No problem - email me tomorrow if you still need a hand.
11:21am: Right now my twitter feed is made up of 90% fictive characters from Pepys' world, and various Pretend Office employees.
03:12pm: 1357 comments on the Pepys site requiring attention after an old database mangling. At least 24 hours' dull work I reckon. Onward. Upward.
10:05pm: @phl Most things are probably my fault if you look too closely. Glad you got it working.

Replace comments with letters pages: Maybe we should replace commenting on popular websites with letters’ pages.