More online education courses should be motivated with points, percentages, and lots of shiny badges. >_> Also... I'm mousing around through free website hosting to see if I can host things off of Codecademy. Pardon me, but I'm acutely nervous about the long-term hosting capacities of an educational website. :\ Now, just a moment, I'm trying something.

Edit: ...Okay, disregard that. Apparently Dreamwidth is solidly allergic to in-post forms, even if it seems to allow it initially. I'm tempted to try Dragon Fighter, but let's just say I'm cynical about the whole mess.

...Tried it in a private entry. Cynicism justified. :P Free website hosting it is.
Webs doesn't permit Javascript, but Yola and Angelfire (?) seem to do so, so I'm planning on moseying on over to Angelfire. If that doesn't work, I'll jump to Yola.
[Why Angelfire? Because I know there are Angelfire pages that haven't been touched for years - probably over a decade, in some cases - and yet are still up. So they definitely don't delete for inactivity or go on arbitrary deletion rampages. I consider this a very good thing, so I'm siding with them first.]

...*resists the urge to sob with nostalgia* I just found one, on an unrelated search, that lists dates from 2001 as upcoming release dates. I feel so old. But my inner nine-year-old feels so validated. All hail the ETERNAL Internet!

(...Also, for all that I mock and dislike LiveJournal's changes, I appreciate its free image hosting. ...Thanks, LiveJournal. Nutty though you are... thanks.)

On a more amusing note, check out a guide on Everything Done Wrong In Bad Webpages. That's not quite the name, but that's certainly its intent. :)

Those neat, well-ordered little piles?

Also:
"Samuels says that hoarding belongs to a syndrome that also includes

• Indecisiveness
• Perfectionism
• Procrastination
• Avoidance behaviors
• Difficulty organizing tasks"

...Ahahaha... Ow. Damnit. ...Brutal accuracy at its finest. Ow.

Five out of six of their "anti-clutter strategies for compulsive hoarders", however, are absolutely pathetic. ...Seriously, they border on trying to induce new psychological disorders in the people who follow the strategies. I know amoral-variant capitalism is a firm believer in ensuring a "continuing revenue stream", but so blatantly?

( ''And when you do purchase something new, discard another item you own to make room for it.'' )
...Why do so many pop-psychologists seem like alien tourists with minimal exposure to human beings outside zoos? -____________-;;

Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

- Hugh Latimer (before his burning at the stake in the Marian Persecutions in 1555)

Because someone has to mention this.

Hundreds of monks are getting locked in. And for what? Because one of their number dared publish a book about some Tibetian monks setting themselves on fire as a form of protest against the Chinese authorities.

Signal boost, or at least give thanks that you live in a country in which you can signal boost in ways other than "lighting such a candle".

Police and firemen even threw complimentary buckets of water on it to keep it hydrated.

Off to Yola it is, then.

In the meantime, I'm using the Angelfire site as a sporking host. Only one up so far, but that will change soon.

It ought to be a bit more pleasant than tagging/splitting things up over several posts, at least. (Of course, everything gets posted here first... but the Angelfire site should be easier to read.)