Anthology of Ideas

Sobe Life water is presenting a new website http://www.thrillicious.com/ and is using dancing Lizards to do it. I’m partial to reptiles, so this is one of the best commercials I’ve ever seen. Want to see the commercial? Watch it below or go to the website and click on the Super Bowl Ad link. Some More Pictures of this wonderful commercial:(All images are copyright their owners.)

It started with a post on Aardvarchaeology which was then linked by Pharyngula and responded to with a post on Uncertain Principles. Martin Rundkvist, of Aardvarchaeology, declares that US Politics Have No Left Wing which was quickly responded to by Chad Orzel, of Uncertain Prinicples, who retorted that it could just as easily said that European Politics Have No Right Wing. I agree with their base statements: Europe is left of America which is right of Europe, Europeans and Americans both got where they are through trial and error, and that many American politicians are very right-wing, but…To argue that higher taxes are fundamentally better than lower ones, and that certain political positions are better than others, and that religious politicians — regardless of how they publicly use their religion — are inherently inferior to their counterparts is a little too broad for my tastes.

Wow, I just felt a stampede of people from Digg over that one, guess I’ll be able to retire soon. Nah, I wish. Actually I expect that my readership will drop a little bit every Thursday, but for the rest of you, I hope you will enjoy a delightful change of pace — even if every post doesn’t enthrall you in its grasp. We will be floating around romantic and enlightenment literature from both sides of the Atlantic with stops at Whitman, Poe, Wordsworth, Byron and more.

The following was sent to me by a friend, the original source is unknown, and google wasn’t much of a help. The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.

In Vista, normal users are not allowed to save the hosts file, so the easiest way to edit it is to run notepad as an administrator. Go to start and either search for “notepad” or go to All Programs > Accessories Right click “notepad” and select the “Run as Administrator Option.” Once Notepad opens go to File > Open and browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc” Set the file filter to “All Files” Select and Open “hosts” Edit it and save it.

One of the downsides of having a popular plugin is the amount of support requests, bug reports, and feature suggestions that come in. Well, it’s not that bad, but sometimes it’s difficult to organize what features should be added, what bugs must be tackled first, and what can just be ignored. If you’re one of the few and the proud over at WP Extend Plugins, you have a nice tool at your disposal to keep track of all your plugin related needs.

Sobe Life water is presenting a new website http://www.thrillicious.com/ and is using dancing Lizards to do it. I’m partial to reptiles, so this is one of the best commercials I’ve ever seen. Want to see the commercial? Watch it below or go to the website and click on the Super Bowl Ad link. Some More Pictures of this wonderful commercial:(All images are copyright their owners.)

It started with a post on Aardvarchaeology which was then linked by Pharyngula and responded to with a post on Uncertain Principles. Martin Rundkvist, of Aardvarchaeology, declares that US Politics Have No Left Wing which was quickly responded to by Chad Orzel, of Uncertain Prinicples, who retorted that it could just as easily said that European Politics Have No Right Wing. I agree with their base statements: Europe is left of America which is right of Europe, Europeans and Americans both got where they are through trial and error, and that many American politicians are very right-wing, but…To argue that higher taxes are fundamentally better than lower ones, and that certain political positions are better than others, and that religious politicians — regardless of how they publicly use their religion — are inherently inferior to their counterparts is a little too broad for my tastes.

Wow, I just felt a stampede of people from Digg over that one, guess I’ll be able to retire soon. Nah, I wish. Actually I expect that my readership will drop a little bit every Thursday, but for the rest of you, I hope you will enjoy a delightful change of pace — even if every post doesn’t enthrall you in its grasp. We will be floating around romantic and enlightenment literature from both sides of the Atlantic with stops at Whitman, Poe, Wordsworth, Byron and more.

The following was sent to me by a friend, the original source is unknown, and google wasn’t much of a help. The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.

In Vista, normal users are not allowed to save the hosts file, so the easiest way to edit it is to run notepad as an administrator. Go to start and either search for “notepad” or go to All Programs > Accessories Right click “notepad” and select the “Run as Administrator Option.” Once Notepad opens go to File > Open and browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc” Set the file filter to “All Files” Select and Open “hosts” Edit it and save it.

One of the downsides of having a popular plugin is the amount of support requests, bug reports, and feature suggestions that come in. Well, it’s not that bad, but sometimes it’s difficult to organize what features should be added, what bugs must be tackled first, and what can just be ignored. If you’re one of the few and the proud over at WP Extend Plugins, you have a nice tool at your disposal to keep track of all your plugin related needs.