some tricks & tips

...there is a better way to deal with the form field size issue. The answer relies on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). With CSS you can specify a monospace font for your input boxes, resulting in field sizes that are nearly the same in both IE and Netscape.

someday very soon the laptop screen you use will seem as dated and clunky as an Etch A Sketch...

Empowerment in information design literacy demands the immediate and complete disregard of the entire contents of this cyberspace communication.

Turning food into electricity isn't unique... what I've done is make it small enough to fit into a robot....

Police admitted on Friday that they have kept the organizers of protests for the Republican National Convention under surveillance by photographing activists as they arrived for planning sessions.

Other events during convention week:

• Million Billionaire March
• Vigil of Compassionlessness / Vigil for Corporate Welfare
• Billionaires Day of Rampage

"This isn't even capitalism any more, it's feudalism. Any time we buy Shell or Microsoft ... we are their serfs," said Biafra

eWatch says it monitors "thousands of editorial-based sites on the Web," as well as "more than 63,000 Usenet groups and Electronic Mailing Lists." Furthermore it "monitors hundreds of public discussion areas on AOL and CompuServe" and the finance/investor bulletin boards on Yahoo!, Motley Fool and Silicon Investor.

So if you're ticked off about that refrigerator you bought at an e-commerce site from a giant manufacturer, or the brokerage-recommended stock you bought that tanked three days later, and you go online to complain about it, watch out. You are now an "anti-corporate activist," as it has come to be known in the PR trade.

Current brightness estimates indicate that Comet LINEAR will just barely become visible without binoculars in northern skies in the days surrounding July 23 during the early evening hours.

thank you for making my life a living hell.

I would like to offer special Disacknowledgements to the following degenerates for being an ever-present hindrance during my graduate career...

gee, Beav. maybe he'll kill his wife when he gets out for blabbering to Entertainment Tonight?

from Getting It:

It is the sweetest irony that Big Brother will perhaps drain away countless work hours as Economy Slaves log (ahem) onto CBS servers to watch the turds bob in the bowl. They'll be turning away from the construction of their companies' own shit idols in order to watch with detached but empathetic wonder as others build theirs, unfettered by the trappings of respectability and propriety.

And that smells pretty damned good to me. (ben friendly)

Josh was complaining about the producers allowing the chicken to suffer just to see what kind of reaction the contestants would have. He accused them of letting an animal suffer for show profits. His conversation with the beauty queen on this topic was cut from the live video streams at about 9PM tonight just when he was really getting into a criticism of the shows producers. Josh has a lot of guts. He mentioned that the contestants were sworn to all sorts of secrecy agreements and that he would not be able to talk about his feelings on this after the show....

characters are beginning to develop, and true colors are being squeezed out. I'm finding that my original assessments of some of the cast were off - for example, josh, who I thought was just your average meathead - but at times like the one above, he's showing himself to be an ok dude in some respects (then again, that all flies out the window when he's singing garth brooks songs or talking about Air Supply).

other notes: jordan was topless for a few seconds on a web feed. brittney and karen are back-stabbers. the "dead celebrity" challenge ... it amazes me that none of the cast knows who neil young is, or that jack kerouac wrote 'on the road'.

...smoking cannabis increases appetite, a property that is sometimes exploited to help cancer and AIDS patients. Cannabinoids have also been detected in human and cow's milk, and levels here are at their highest the day after giving birth. Ester Fride of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem thought these observations might be a clue that naturally occurring cannabinoids are important in the early development of newborns...