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Updated Christmas Day, 2005

For anyone who might be interested, here's the best and most complete (=longest)
article on the Dover monkey trial:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-12-20.htmlAnd if you're not interested enough to read the whole thing, the best part is the ( Read more... )

First, thanks to qwyneth for clueing me in on what the "war on Christmas" is about; I had heard the term but wasn't paying much attention ( Read more... )

...we got rear-ended in Shadowfax ( Read more... )

"Were the breath of the West Wind to make a body visible, even so would it appear."
--Eomer


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A few words about the Hitchhiker's movie (no spoilers ( Read more... )

World of Ends:
What the Internet Is and
How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else.

Not deep, not profound, just a well-written statement.

When Clinton Lied
No One Died

And a noodle bribe article:
http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Oct/EEN416691344ff18.html

The Chinese calendar (not to mention the Discworld calendar) has this sequence of things like "Year of the Monkey." You wonder how this got started. Were they overrun by monkeys one year? And if so, is it really cyclic ( Read more... )

Usually I ignore Java's PLAF (Programmable Look And Feel) because I don't care whether my program looks like a Windows or Mac program, so long as it works. Heck, I have to look at my background in order to figure out which key combo to use. Same reason I pretty much ignore, whaddyacallem, "skins ( Read more... )

Should we do Skype?

www.skype.com

Looks fine, but I'm sure some of my friends & family know a lot more about VoIP than I do!