December again! This is the month when, among other things, I get to hear Protestants drone on about “putting the ‘Christ’ back in ‘Christmas’”. A year ago I discussed a Garrison Keillor article entitled Don’t Mess With Christmas, including the sentence “Christmas is a Christian holiday — if you’re not in the club, then buzz [...] Read more »
Googlebot and <IFRAME> URLs
Does Google crawl <IFRAME>-related tags? Yes. I created a page with this code: <IFRAME src="URL1"> <a href="URL2">URL2</a> </IFRAME> <NOFRAMES> <a href="URL2">URL2</a> </NOFRAMES> Each was only mentioned on this one page, and my web logs verified Googlebot was the only visitor besides me. All three URLs were identified and crawled by Googlebot. [...] Read more »
If other advice were like Linux advice
There are few domains in which a simple query can have such an unhelpful response as when you ask questions about the Linux operating system. Imagine if asking for cooking advice were like this: mcgeesorg: Hello! Does anyone know the right temperature to use when cooking a turkey? It would be a big help. If [...] Read more »
Glenn Beck: “10% of Muslims Are Terrorists”
Glenn Beck claimed, on national television, that 10% of Muslims worldwide are terrorists. To put this in U.S. terms, the number of people this includes is equal to the combined populations of: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Austin, Columbus, Fort [...] Read more »
Mental Hygiene Tips
Before you believe something, and definitely before you pass it on, perform these steps: 1. Type it into Snopes. Has Barbara already done the research for you and shown it to be inaccurate? She’s pretty good at that stuff, and it’s her full-time job. 2. If there are quantifiable elements, punch the figures into a [...] Read more »
On segregating news transmission online
Never quite sure what the right and wrong audiences are for breaking news like this, and whether it’s always a good idea to put it up online. But from what I know of who attends to this site and who doesn’t, I’m putting it here instead of Facebook: My grandfather just died. Shit. Read more »
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