Dammit Jim!

I like to monitor my comments by RSS. That keeps all the fun blog related stuff in the feed reader and leaves my email for important stuff. Unfortunately, this has resulted in some comments languishing unnoticed in the moderation queue since there doesn’t seem to be an easy way (that I found with a quick search) to get the comments awaiting moderation into a feed. So here is a very simple plugin to put comments awaiting moderation into an RSS feed.

Features

• RSS feed of comments awaiting moderation

I just added a new book to the Darwin du Jour site. A Naturalist’s Voyage Round The World (also known as Voyage of the Beagle) is Darwin’s log of his travels on the H.M.S. Beagle. I just started reading it myself but it looks like a pretty interesting look at the history of the regions, the old methods of biology and, of course, how Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection. Project Gutenberg again provided the base text (html in this case) although I had to do a bit of conversion to make it look decent.

I’ve been meaning to read Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species for quite a while. Unfortunately, I’m always busy. I came across The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci RSS which seemed nice although it’s a little unfulfilling to read a sketchbook in plain text. This got me thinking that that would be a nice way to read other books. Project Gutenberg has Origin of the Species (and many other books) available for free download. I thought converting this text into RSS might provide a nice way to read books a bit at a time. Since I just got the fancy new sherrillmix.com domain name I thought I could practice a little php and make something useful for myself and possibly for others. So if you’ve never read The Origin of Species and want to have an educational RSS feed please visit Darwin du Jour.