Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Navigation

    May 30, 2001
    from Pitas, Usability / Accessibility

    Changed the navigation at the Fountain Of Knowledge. It utilizes a DHTML menu script to open a menu bar. The inspiration came from this lovely lady’s site called Grain of Gold. Looked up the site that built the script and used their instructions to place it on my site. – – – – – – – –…

  • Security Day

    May 29, 2001
    Cybersecurity, from Pitas

    SecurityWatch has an interesting article discussing a new virus which looks for filenames which might contain kiddie porn. Once it identifies a file that may contain it, the file and email address are emailed to a government agency. Read the article. Another article discusses a bill circulating the House which would allow ISPs to sue spammers.…

  • Safe

    May 25, 2001
    Cybersecurity, from Pitas, Race / Racism

    Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org ———- Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article

  • Multi-Response

    May 24, 2001
    Communication, from Pitas

    Note to self: Do not ask people to reply to more than one question per email.

  • Desecration Continued

    May 23, 2001
    from Pitas, News, Religion / Baha’i Faith

    Bet you thought that the Taliban would stop at desecrating the Buddist statues. Think again! Read the UN Wire article.

  • Sense

    May 23, 2001
    from Pitas, Quotes

    A Dennis Leary quote: Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2 – year old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. — Denis Leary If you believe everything you read, you better not read. — Japanese proverb We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with…

  • Shelves

    May 22, 2001
    Education, from Pitas, Toys

    There is something about shelves. For some reason the ultimate design for a room to me is covered with the things. I even designed one room with 2 cabinet doors on each wall where one could hand paintings, but behind would of course be more shelves. I could never have enough shelving as more shelves…

  • Economic Harmonies

    May 18, 2001
    Biol / Genetics, Corporations, from Pitas

    I especially like the last paragraph. Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable…

  • Art to Flying

    May 18, 2001
    Books / Novels / Writing, from Pitas, Quotes

    “…there is an art to flying…or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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