Fast forward a few days and others have written Chrome and Firefox extensions to do so, which then received coverage on some big sites like Gawker, and the extensions have now been downloaded thousands of times. Neat!

Only trouble is, I mistakenly put in nationalgeographic.com in the list in addition to natgeotv.com, although the former is a non-profit and only the latter is a property of News Corp. The worst part is that the list’s now been re-posted by countless other blogs instead of linked back to the Reddit post (where I’ve made the correction). I contacted the authors of various Murdoch-blocking extensions, but I should’ve been a bit more careful in researching exactly what domains to put on the list.

Sorry about that, National Geographic.

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The irony.  It burns.

<?php wp_oembed_add_provider( 'http://video.pbs.org/video/*', 'http://video.pbs.org/oembed/' ); ?>

The easiest way to do this is just stick it in your theme’s functions.php file. Let’s try it out:

The new font used is called Fontin Sans. It really is quite nice for both a body and headline font, I think.

You can view my entire collection of photos on Flickr so far, organised chronologically by country.  Here’s a preview:

The whole collection of photos on Flickr

Our primary method of travel will be train, used by us via Eurail. Although Google Maps doesn’t have train routes, here’s an approximation of our route.

I’ll be updating again soon with photos and more!

But that’d be all too easy.  As it turns out, Wildermuth was a segregationist, an outright racist, who wrote numerous letters to Herman Wells urging him to keep black students from having the same opportunities as white students at IU.  He specifically urged keeping the IU Hoosiers basketball, for instance, white-only.

And so, since the 70′s, there have been brouhahas every few years about the sports building’s name.

It all culminated in the last several days, when the IU board of trustees, after months of bitter conflict with student groups and alumni about the name, finally waved the white flag (well, sort of) and voted to append an additional name to the building, that of William L. Garrett, the first black IU Hoosier basketball player, who joined the team in 1948.  Ironic, right? A segregationist and a black guy on a plaque together, probably for a long, long, long time.  At last, everyone basically gets what they want.

Wait, not so fast!

As it turns out, the board of trustees forgot to ask Garrett’s widow, Betty, if she would be okay with her husband’s name going on the plaque with Wildermuth’s.  Oops, and it looks like she isn’t, because she just contacted the board yesterday and told them they couldn’t put it on there.

Maybe if someone had asked her about this, oh, I don’t know 40 years ago, we wouldn’t have wasted years and years debating it.  For better or for worse, Wildermuth’s name, alone, stays.