Putting the “Christ” back

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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