It’s a Sublime Text plugin…for Slack. It can post selected text as a snippet or each line as a new message. You can choose the channel from a menu or send to a single recipient. You can also type new messages through the input console. It works as advertised.
MindMeister is a really great web app for creating context maps. Now you can generate a map from a bulleted list in Google Docs without ever leaving the document.
Here’s a demo video of the process:
MindMeister also integrates with Google Drive to store, create and access maps directly.
From Ken Levine, one of the writers for the series MASH:
We broke the show down into two acts and a tag. Each act would have five scenes. Brief transition scenes didn’t count. But go back through some episodes. Five main scenes in the first act and five in the second. As best we could we would try to advance both of our stories in the same scenes. But each story is different and we tried to avoid being predictable.
If Microsoft is responsible for this new IFTTT channel then this reorganization might actually be making them more savy. If not, then it’s the same old Microsoft but at least there’s a new IFTTT channel for OneNote. I’m hoping they are getting it together and working on some interesting new products instead of making futurist porn. The OneNote announcements might be pointing to a new Microsoft. That would be pretty great.
Erik and I nerd out about Slack on the latest episode of Technical Difficulties. If I sound overly excited about a group collaboration service, it’s probably because I am. The rate of change on some of my collaborative projects increased dramatically after we moved to Slack. The ability to share code and files while tracking tasks and discussing it all in real time is great. I’ve abandoned a lot of duct tape and twine holding together about 6 other disparate services.
Writing Sublime Text Plugins is a new book by Josh Earl. I bought it and think it’s a great place to start if you want to learn how to make Sublime Text do more. I’d recommend it even if you don’t want to make your own plugin to distribute. If you’re like me, you might just want your own function that does something special to you but useless to almost everyone else.
This Guardian article really lays it all out. Apparently Senators like Dianne Feinstein only like spying when they are excluded from the enormous drag net.
The exasperation with Ms Feinstein is that she directs her sense of outrage only at the CIA. It seems restricted to issues that impact on her. She is outraged when the CIA allegedly hacked into her committee’s computers. She is upset over the alleged intrusion into the privacy of her own staff.
What a great looking plugin for Sublime Text. Allows you to send text from Sublime Text to Evernote as a new note. It also allows you to popup a list of notes in Sublime Text and open one as a Markdown plain text version in Sublime. It also uses a YAML header in the note to display or set the Evernote attributes like folder and tags.
You’ll need an Evernote developer token for it to work though.
From the LA Times:
But then there’s ignorance custom-designed to manipulate the public. “The myth of the ‘information society’ is that we’re drowning in knowledge,” he says. “But it’s easier to propagate ignorance.”
It’s a disconcerting look at how insidious purposeful-ignorance is and how the story never really changes. My dad had a saying when I was a kid: “A lie is as good as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.
Here’s a great little collection of crazy sounding conspiracy theories that turned out to actually be true:
The plot developed into a semi-big deal, with financing channels and a new economic initiative all ready to go, but was undone by the plotters’ choice for the American Benito Mussolini: the even-more hilariously named Smedley Butler. The idea was to assemble a force of disgruntled veterans (brown shirts optional, one imagines), march them to Washington, and force President Roosevelt to appoint Butler to some kind of cabinet position, from which he could pass the cabal’s orders to the basically powerless president.
