Now this would be fun! I seem to remember having dreams like this back in 1986 when I got my first NES… And the kids at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts have realized these dreams…
Check out this video from their talent show on Gorilla Mask…
This is probably the best performance art I’ve seen all year…
UPDATE: This plug-in has a new home, on it’s own special page!
So here it is, it doesn’t do much, but if you use AWStats, you may find my first WordPress plugin handy…
AWStats Extended Info inserts the awstats_misc_tracker.js into each page WordPress serves, allowing you to track additional items including screen size, Flash, PDF, and Java support among other things.
Since I use K2 and update it frequently, this plugin was designed to save me from having to continually update the template files.
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Version History/Change Log
2.1b r001 :: February 24, 2007
FEATURE – Added Options Page Subpanel “AWStats X”
FEATURE – User can select pages to load the AWStats Extended script
MINOR – Checked WP 2.1 Compatibility
2.0.2b :: April 26, 2005
Public beta. Changed version number to reflect WP compatibility.
Known Issues
2.1b r001 :: February 24, 2007
BUG – Plugin activation does not automatically set script to be added to all (or any, for that matter) pages… Must be done manually… For now.
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If you have any troubles, feel free to e-mail me using the Contact link in the menu bar or by posting comments here. Good luck and enjoy.
UPDATE: This plug-in has a new home, on it’s own special page!
Bob Jones University
I’ve never been. Chances are, I’m going to avoid the place at all costs. I suppose I’m not much of a fan of places that can’t seem to accept the inevitable forward march of time. It just reflects poorly on Christianity, I mean, really? What would Jesus do?! Do you think a man that hung out with whores and drunks would prohibit interracial relationships without parental consent? And hell, it only did that in 2000. Figure, if you were black, you weren’t going there until 1971. And the whole Catholics being a cult and the Pope the antichist? That’s a bit over the top, don’t you think? For a religion that preaches a love of your neighbor, these guys are pretty noninclusive.
So how does this look from the outside? Probably to more enlightened folks it’s reminiscient (if on a less volatile scale) of the challenges facing Islam. They wrestle with the inclusion of women. We wrestle with the inclusion of anyone different, be they colored differently, their sexual orientation different, whatever.
What scares me most about Bob Jones University is how long it has taken for them to move forward with the recognition of basic freedoms. Whoever created us, be it evolution or God, endowed us with free will. The right to choose who we are- morally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Religion’s place is to help people grow, not to stifle them.
Sadly, a government which thus far has not been able to effectively manage national security, economic security, or social security, now intends to manage data security. By data security I mean consumer information, the stuff of Identity Theft, account numbers, social security numbers, and the like. Legislation making its way through various subcommitees and lobbying groups would supposedly mandate companies to report customer data loss or theft, but not really. You can read all the details in an article on Wired News a couple of days ago.
I’m not about to regale you with tales from Wired News, rather I want us to consider a few minor points…
I’d encourage you to write your representatives, but honestly, all you get is a cheap form letter and no results. I’d encourage you to vote them out of office, but apparently that requires them to be caught in a torrid love affair with a member of their own sex or to have an abortion (which hardly applies to a congress comprised of predominantly old white men) I’d encourge you to pray, but you’re conning yourself if you think God cares about America. I suppose the only thing that you can do is purchase a nice piggy bank then pay down and close all your credit card and bank accounts… Now that would show ‘em!
Here are some more places on the net you might like, but you don’t have to take my word for it… Oh, wait, yes you do…
In Washington today, a woman who was arrested Thursday for heckling Mr. Hu in a ceremony at the White House appeared on a misdemeanor count in Federal District Court. Wenyi Wang was charged with harassing, intimidating or threatening a foreign official and was released pending a court appearance next month.
- Washington Post
Apparently heckling Communist party leaders with shameful human rights records is now illegal in the United States. How does one woman with a press pass intimidate the leader of a foreign nation with a phalanx of security flanking him? How do you harass a man who puts members of spiritual movements into prison for debating with government policies? Is it possible to threaten a person in charge of a country that executes more people per year than all others combined?
There goes the First Amendment, at least we know the Second Amendment is safe is this political climate…
Here are some more places on the net you might like, but you don’t have to take my word for it… Oh, wait, yes you do…
Originally reported in The Beijing Youth Daily and picked up by CNET News comes this cute cartoon from one of our international best friends, China. You know, the Communist country that we can visit and do business with… Unlike that little island 90 miles south of Key West that runs down its citizens with tanks.
The Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Public Security has these mascots, Jingjing and Chacha, to encourage responsible, safe, non-dissenting use of the internet. Personally, I don’t find these two very scary. Although they do demonstrate a need for better art instruction in Chinese schools.
Oh, and just for the record, Cuba hasn’t (to my knowlege, anyway) mowed down its own citizens with tanks, that was China.
I noticed this little gem today on CNET News. It was a small blurb linking to a study that shows the Map of Religion in the US.
The maps, organized by religion, show the membership percentages of each religion for each county in the United States. The results, from 2000, aren’t too surprising. It kind of plays out like an electoral map, the most religious states are in the South and Midwest, the South being predominantly Baptist and the Midwest having Episcopal leanings. The Roman Catholic church has the Northeast on lock, as well as a large swath of the Southwest. And we all know which way Utah leans (Mormon).
So what is surprising? Well, the number of Amish in Illinois, for one. Or maybe that the Quakers are still kicking… I won’t ruin it for you… Check it out, its about 30 minutes of graphically represented statistical fun.
And I never will be.
Although, everyone I know (except maybe my Mom and Dad) are on MySpace, and they all extoll its many virtues to me on a near daily basis. I have many reasons for refusing to take part in the orgy that is MySpace.
First, I have enough to do on a daily basis without responding to messages from people I’ve been trying to avoid for years.
Second, Rupert Murdoch. No further explanation needed there.
Third, it’s like the mall when school gets out. Crawling with high schoolers.
I kind of think of MySpace as a place for those without their own domain. Why would I want to upkeep a website (or two) AND a myspace account?! I’d be on the computer from dusk ’til dawn (perhaps even an hour or twelve more…)
If you’re wondering why I didn’t link to MySpace on this post, the reason is simple: I don’t want to encourage people.
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