Friday, October 2, 2015

Adieu, Arne Duncan

From The New York Times: “Arne Duncan, Education Secretary, to Step Down in December.”

Duncan will be <sarcasm>warmly</sarcasm> remembered as the man who started us on the Race to the Top. His successor will no doubt stay the course.

A related post
Arne Duncan on Colbert

[Fake HTML made with character codes from this handy page.]

By Michael Leddy at 2:33 PM

2 comments:

  1. The ArthurianOctober 03, 2015 8:30 AM

    Thanks for the link to character codes.

    At work I often press ALT and type 0189 on the numeric keypad to get "½". One less or one more than 0189 for "¼" or "¾". Works in Windows and my Blogger editor too. Oddly (if my co-worker has his facts right) filenames with these fractions in them prevent WinZip from working.

    Miscellaneous, vaguely related facts and rumors :)

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  2. Michael LeddyOctober 03, 2015 12:26 PM

    I’ve used decimal codes for a few fractions. There is a way to make any fraction in HTML, but it ruins lineation.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if an unusual character in a filename made a mess of things. (I think of what happens when I upload an image with a space in the filename.)

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