Holy shit. And on my birthday, too. What a slap in the face. Whereas Christmas, a holiday of great significance to Americans and many other cultures and nationalities, is celebrated annually by Christians throughout the United States and the world; Whereas there are approximately 225,000,000 Christians in the United States, making Christianity the religion of [...] Read more »
Pat my head?
David Wilcove of Princeton, world-renowned expert on endangered species, was on Fresh Air, 2007-12-05. He discussed gray whales’ changing relationships with people. In the 19th century, gray whales were known as “devil fish” and would attack boats. Reasonable. The whalers, for their part, would harpoon calves first, knowing that the mother would not abandon her [...] Read more »
Greasemonkey Scripts
If you don’t know of them, and you use Firefox, I’ve been remiss in not exposing you to Greasemonkey scripts. They are little bits of JavaScript that do cool things to the way sites are displayed. Install Greasemonkey through the previous link, then try Gmail Beautifier, Google Search Results Ultimate Makeover, and, if you use [...] Read more »
Tool, Soil, and Surprise Guest
I took my dad to the Tool concert at the new Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on 10 December (yesterday, technically, but just a few hours ago). Here are some thoughts. The Nokia Theater is great. Really, really great. Great acoustics. Acoustics so good, with such a lack of echo, that you could whisper on [...] Read more »
Spammer: World Wine Boutique
worldwineboutique.com (no link) is an internet wine shop. And a spammer. As this site has higher traffic than their own site, I’m sure this will show up in Google searches, and probably higher than theirs. If you oppose spam, don’t order from the site. Read more »
TVo/US Relations
Quiz: what do The Bullwinkle Show, The West Wing, and CSI: Miami have in common, as regards international relations? For bonus credit, add other titles I don’t know about. Read more »
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