I thought I’d seen every annoying web trick under the sun, but apparently I missed one — why not make it impossible for people to resize to the browser window when they’re visiting your site? Check out: http://209.50.251.215:81/ and just try to resize the window. View the source for the page and you see what…
June, 2001
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You have to love the irony of a web site devoted to Primitivism. Anyway, there were a couple links to their site on Permaculture which reminds me of an amusing (well at least I thought it was amusing) anecdote. My wife likes to shop in health food stores, and I like to tag along because…
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Over the past couple years I’ve been a bit obsessed about the history of slavery and one of these days am actually going to have time to get working on the web site I started on the topic. Anyway, David Bloomberg has written a very good review of Gregory Freeman’s excellent book, Lay This Body…
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It was inevitable, but the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York Times v. Tasini was an enormous mistake. The Times and other newspapers took articles written by freelancers and included them in databases such as Lexis/Nexis or in online archives of their site. Unfortunately, they didn’t explicitly secure the rights to do so. In fact…
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For Father’s Day my wife ordered something that didn’t arrive in time, and she refused to divulge exactly what the gift was. For me this is the ultimate torture — I absolutely despise any sort of surprises (when I buy gifts for people I usually end up giving them early before the birthday or whatever…
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Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal By Daniel Williams The controversy over the Mumia Abu-Jamal case has always puzzled me. Sometime around 4 a.m. on Dec. 9, 1981, somebody puts a bullet through the head of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, who dies instantaneously. Abu-Jamal is found nearby holding a…
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If a widely circulating quote attributed to George W. Bush by an “unnamed source” is true, its another example of how much more sane Bush’s alleged naivete in foreign policy matters is compared to that of Bill Clinton and Al Gore’s. Supposedly Bush was given a briefing in the White House about the state of…
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I wasn’t going to say anything when David Winer pointed out on Scripting News that you can use double quotes around words or phrases for Glossary entries, but then Winer posted a second message, 5/15/96: “Some people have objected to the use of double-quotes, saying it interferes with a writer’s process. But I’m a writer,…
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According to Fox News, the Mission Viejo High School in Southern California recently eliminated all extracurricular after school clubs in order to avoid having to recognize a Christian student organization. Fox reports that, Some in the community are grumbling that it’s political correctness run amok, or just plain stubbornness on the part of the board.…
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They should call the Roll Your Own Blackout nonsense the Roll Your Own Third World Country. This is so typical of those things that uptight, middle class Westerners (also known as rich if you’re stuck living in Cameroon or Uganda) do on occasion to alleviate their misguided guilt. Contrary to the scrolling text on the…