BrowseHappy.com is a web site dedicated to telling you about the alternatives to Internet Explorer. The thing that struck me as powerfule is that it’s not Windows Specific options for Mac and Linux are given [granted IE is not available for Linux].
Take a look and consider that if you’re using Internet Explorer you may be getting shafted when it comes to surfing the 'net.
Hat tip: Digital Web
As is obvious in this documentary:'George W. Bush: Faith in the White House' we see that with enough money, quality editing and political slant you can create a "counter documentary". Hopefully one to offset the harm done to the Bush campaign by Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary.
OK, here’s the part I don’t get: Why are people so easily persuaded by the television medium? I don’t believe anything I read on the internet [a comparable medium] just because it’s published on the internet. I look at the source, I evaluate the source, I evaluate the quotes and context of the story and then I add it to the information I’ve collected on the subject so far and then I do some calculations to adjust my opinion on the subject if needed.
I recognize that no one is completely non-partisan, no one is unbiased (despite a desire to be so) and in short no one stands on neutral ground. However, Television all too often trusted when it needs to be very carefully screaned for accuracy when it comes to news, politics and religion. The news producer wants the following things to keep your attention:
And that list could go on much longer, but I think that summarizes some of the weaknesses of the current media situation.
So, if you watch the news, and you believe everything they say at faith value but you consider yourself an agnostic, athiest or ignorant – you’ve got a faith just like me – it’s just in something other than Christ.
As Matt recently posted, WordPress can handle comment spam. I currently have moderation turned on, mostly because I don’t get a lot of comments and I’m in front of my computer all the time. What I really like is the fact that I just got an email showing me the markup of the comment. That comment message had several links in it, including one to do a whois look-up on the IP address, one to accept and another to delete the comment. All from one email. I’m going to install one of the nifty comment plug-ins from the WordPress wiki shortly which should help reduce the already low amount of administration I do. We now return to our normal blog posts.
I’m pleased with the Olympics this year because even though the commentary is just as bad as it was in the political arena, it’s much more palletable. The athletes are doing great over all as well. Abby or course adds a whole new flavor to the Olympics because each event is summed up to one action. Tonight during the men’s high bar event it was, “Swing, swing.” The swimmers are told to, “swim, swim.” And of course the Women’s Beach Volleyball athletes are told to “Put some clothes on!” – but that’s me saying that 🙂
Of course NBC is doing everything they can to make it hard to know when certain events are being aired. Witness the schedule.
8:00 PM OLYMPIC SUMMER GAMES 2004 Primetime
helps so much.
I miss the North Main Barbecue in Euless, Texas – even more so now that I had some Brothers BBQ, a barbecue joint here in CO. They’ve apparently won awards in CO for their food, but by my Texas standards they have to learn a lot more. I’ll write more later, but for now, I’m just going to say: staffing counts for something and heating your beans before you serve them is a good idea. That is all for now. Next week we’ll work on Beans 102: don’t dump 4 parts black-pepper to 1 part beans into your beans recipe.
If you’re going to breastfeed in public – cover up please. I vote that you can breastfeed in most places – if you’ve got your teets covered and your udders aren’t overly exposed.
[Those links both happen to be from Dave Barry‘s blog]
Abby is the cutest. Proof:
I must be crazy not to take advantage of this great deal.
It’s a beauty coupon.
So today I went to www.JohnKerry.com because I was reading the 37signals.com blog [Dang, I’m linking all over the place here]. There, smack-dab on the top of the page, is this image:
The image is called "vision.jpg". That is just too much! The things I see when I read this are as follows:
Vision
Yes, John Kerry is looking at John Edwards and he’s saying, “Ouch, my bowels hurt, I shouldn’t have eaten that corn in Iowa. Because it really didn’t go with the other crap they serve on the bus. At least my wife’s organic ketchup was better for me than the stuff crammed with High-Fructose Corn Syrup” [OK, so I may have read a little into that]. His vision may have been blurred by the spittle that just shot out of Edward’s open mouth. If you squint a little bit you can almost see another house in the background, or it could be a groundskeeping shed because I guarantee you that John Kerry is not getting a photo shoot done in downtown Manhattan where you might see something that says ‘homies’ instead of ‘homey’. You might see “inner-city troubled youth” rather than, “An older man talking to someone else of youth.” You might see that John Edwards is looking for some person who is ready to sue big time in a class action suit since the City of Manhattan has not kept up the roads and they chipped a toe-nail in the pot hole they stepped in.
Shirts
You might also see that these two politicians are wearing nice cotton shirts that speak to the every-man, as long as every-man is wearing a cotton shirt, sitting in controlled lighting, having their hair professionally styled and wearing, as Arnold would say, “Girly-man makeup.” Of course Arnold has very little to input in the Girly-man arena since he has been seen by millions wearing a dress and makeup in ‘Junior‘. I have not been seen by millions whilst in a dress and wearing makeup so I will call Kerry ‘a bit pansy.’ Of course while we make gender reference jokes, if Edwards was a girl, he’d have to be named ‘Sue’ [Man, I’m killing myself here].
Plants
No, not the ones behind them, the ones in the distance producing Suburbans and other quality gas guzzlers. I don’t care if you’re for Bush in the next election, but if Kerry wants to prove that he’s against Bush he needs to not be funding the OilCo’s (that Bush owns some/part of) with his vehicle purchase(s). Kerry however, does not just own gas guzzling vehicles, he’s got a squad of vehicles. John Edwards owns vehicles, but he doesn’t know what they are :).
So, soon, I’ll dig up some fun on Bush and Chenney, except that most liberal groups are doing a great job of making fun of them.