Added to JURN

Ad Americam (American Studies inc. foreign relations)

Classica Cracoviensia

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilisation

Cracow Indological Studies

Journal of Religious Competition in Antiquity

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Russian Arctic, The

Peckhamia (spiders)

ArchbotLit

ArchbotLit is a new searchable database for “literature on archaeological remains of cultivated plants since 1981”. For those dashing in to do a quick test of ArchbotLit, the search-box is not immediately obvious. I had results via the tiny box up at the top-right of the page…

Breadcrumbs begone

Got itchy breadcrumbs in your Google Search results? The new UserScript Google Search restore URLs (undo breadcrumbs) works for me.

Dead Carrot

The Carrot2 search-engine appears to be kaput. It’s been down for days now, unable to show results. Multiple different browers, on different systems, even different VPNs, give no results. A query can be input, but… no results. Even a TOR browser can’t get it to respond. Such a pity, it was so promising.

Merge multiple folders of the same name

How to easily merge multiple folders of the same name, using only Windows Explorer.

You have a folder structure that looks something like this:

ResultsSet1
   | Data
         |Photos
         |Meta
         |Location
ResultsSet2
   | Data
         |Photos
         |Meta
         |Location
ResultsSet3
   | Data
         |Photos
         |Meta
         |Location

You want to extract and merge just the “Data” folders. Each sub-folder should follow along and also be merged with its brethren.

1. If your folder structure is inside a .ZIP or .RAR, then extract. Then open up Windows Explorer and go to the top-level view for your target folders.

2. Make a new empty folder there called “Data”, to sit high among the ResultsSet1, ResultsSet2, ResultsSet3 etc folders.

3. Keyword-search for “Data” using Windows Explorer, and constrain the search to just your target folders.

4. Shift-select the results (they should be all the sub-folders named “Data”), then right-click to copy them.

5. Paste them into the top level of your target folder set. Window will spot the empty “Data” folder you just made, and merge in all the pasted “Data” folders.

You end up with a single amalgamated…

   | Data
         |Photos
         |Meta
         |Location

This takes advantage of a Windows 8 feature where copy-pasting folders of the same name will cause an automatic merge operation. This operation will interrupt the user only with a query about replacement of any duplicate files.

Thus there is no need for use of the Windows command-line, Windows PowerShell, 7-Zip or third-party freeware to accomplish such a basic “copy and combine” operation on folders of the same name.

The new PubMed

JURN’s indexing has been updated, re: the New PubMed.

The new PubMed will become the default in spring 2020 and will ultimately replace the legacy version.

Remove spam “Likes” from WordPress posts

How to remove spam “Likes” from WordPress posts:

1. “Edit” the post in question, in the usual Post Editor.

2. Look over on the right-hand sidebar, and scroll down.

3. There’s a “Likes and Shares” tab in the Post Editor. Uncheck the “Show Likes” check-box.

4. Scroll back up the sidebar, and click the “Update” button.

This works on both free and hosted WordPress blogs. Be aware that the above is using the Classic Editor, and things may look a little different if the newer Editor interface is being used.

You can also turn off Avatars (personal icons), if those are too spammy. The check-box for that is in: Dashboard | Settings | Discussion | Avatars | Avatar Display.

Added to JURN

Supernatural Studies Association Journal

Litteraria Pragensia (not well indexed in Google)

American Journal of Indic Studies

IQAN (Islamic learning, literature, culture)

Les/Wood (wood as a material, inc. preservation in archaeology)

Journal of Egyptological Studies (Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology)

The worthless Peter Lowe ad-blocking list

The Peter Lowe ad-blocking list is obviously now worthless, due to its over-reach and scattergun blocking of all sorts of legitimate things. Back in June I found it blocking Harvard. I’ve since found all sorts of similar blocks on things that should not be blocked. I’ve unsubscribed my browser’s ad-blocker addon from the Peter Lowe list, and I suggest that you consider doing so to.

Carrot2 search – a new script for multi-column results

The Carrot2 search-engine has changed both URL and layout. It was at search.carrot2.org/stable/search and it’s now just at the search.carrot2.org URL. I guess the public-facing search may have come out of beta? This is what their new layout looks like…

Not good, on a widescreen desktop monitor.

Which means I’ve made another custom CSS for it. This slices the Carrot into a multi-column layout suited to a widescreen 1920px monitor. It works in the Stylus browser addon, and you need to tell the script to target the search.carrot2.org site

Yum, crunchy Carrot! All the z-depths are set up nicely, so you can still click on/in the filters and search box.

I like to read the URLs in search-results and so I’ve turned them dark green and wrapped them to make this possible. The results look good with URLs that line-wrap by up to three lines. But it’s unavoidable that some very long URLs will wrap over four lines, and will thus spill over the element below.

In most cases there should be no need for any scrolling.

It only works in Day mode, with the Carrot’s new toggle-able Night and Day mode…

If you want a night mode, you’ll have to manually change the colour chips to a charcoal black on…

body, body.light {

and

div.ResultList

The other drawback is that whereas the old multi-column fix showed about 25-30 results, now we’re down to about 16. If you want it up to 20+ add the following code…


.ResultClusters {
display: none;
}


There’s also the lack of a “more…” button, but this usefully forces the user to use the Carrot’s innovative faceting systems over in the left-hand pane.

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To install my fix, simply go to Carrot2, then left-click on your icon for the Stylus browser addon and click “Write style for…”.

Then paste in this…


/* ==== CARROT2 - Multi-Columns v.02 Oct 2019 ==== */
/* run this Stylus script on search.carrot2.org */
div.document div.url {
overflow: hidden;
color: #3a7730;
font-size: 110%;
}
body, body.light {
background-color: #ece5db;
}
.ResultList > div > a > span.url {
color: #3f7126;
font-size: 80%;
font-weight: bold;
white-space: pre; /* CSS 2.0 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 2.1 */
white-space: pre-line; /* CSS 3.0 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
white-space: -hp-pre-wrap; /* HP Printers */
word-wrap: break-word; /* IE 5+ */
}
a {
font-size: 100%;
}
.SearchForm {
z-index:20;
}
div.ResultList {
z-index:4;
position:absolute;
background-color: #ece5db;
padding-top: 180px;
top:0;
bottom:0;
right:0;
column-count: 5;
width: 70%
}
.ResultList > div > a >div {
font-size: 80%;
}
div.sources {
padding-top: 25px;
}
div.ClusterList {
background-color: #ece5db;
padding-top: 10px;
column-count: 2;
}
div.clusters-tabs {
width: 40%
}
div.clusters {
z-index:4;
width: 50%
}


Tested in Opera, which is a browser that runs on Chrome. It will probably work with other CSS style injectors.

Be warned that Carrot2 will perma-block an entire IP address (in the case of BT in the UK, or VPNs, that can mean hundreds of thousands of users) if it detects “excessive traffic”.