Anthology of Ideas

Take a look at the following stats and let me know if you see anything odd.

Didn’t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.)

If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn’t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months. It turns out that on the SoBe Lizard post I added 5 PNG screenshots to the post.

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. Our travels will range from light and airy to dark and dirty, from high mountains to plains of daisies, and we will talk about birds, cats, compost, and old men.

Our first stop, next Thursday, will be a hopeful view of the cause of so much grief as we examine Whitman and his responses to death. Don’t worry. Something happy will appear soon after.

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 the first year, ’s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with ‘f’. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

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.

1. Go to start and either search for “notepad” or go to All Programs > Accessories
2. Right click “notepad” and select the “Run as Administrator Option.”
3. Once Notepad opens go to File > Open and browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
4. Set the file filter to “All Files”
5. Select and Open “hosts”
6. Edit it and save it.

If you get an error about it being read only:

1. Go to File > Open, right click the “hosts” file and select properties
2. Uncheck read-only at the bottom and click OK.
3. Click Cancel to go back to notepad”
4. Save it