April 2004

The Chronicles of George illustrate in gory detail what happens when the techie on the other end of the Help Desk phone line needs more help than you do.

The Mouseover DOM Inspector "allows you to view the properties of any HTML element on a page simply by mousing over the element. The element will be given a gray background, and a DIV element that trails the mouse cursor will contain the element type along with all of the specified attributes of the element."

Theocracywatch.org "is not about religion, nor about Christianity, nor about Republicans. This site is about how a small group of Republican strategists targeted a religious constituency to expand the base of their party, and how a small group of religious extremists targeted the Republican Party to bring the United States government under religious control."

Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, offers an explanation for why Smart People Believe Weird Things: "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons… We then sort through the body of data and select those that most confirm what we already believe, and ignore or rationalize away those that do not."

The photomosaic of the Iraq War dead is a truly moving image.

LaserMonks offers new and remanufactured inkjet and laser printer cartridges at sizable discounts—and they really are monks!

The Bush Sloganator, which the Bush campaign castrated because people were using it to say nasty things about Our Sainted President, has been reborn in all its First Amendment glory.

Angie McKaig points us to two excellent Movable Type resources: MT Extensions is a collection of MT tips, tricks, and hacks, and Andy Budd's article shows us how to use templates to create a custom .htaccess file.

Read The Law Enforcement and Forensic Examiner: Introduction to Linux, A Beginners Guide [PDF file] if you want to use Linux as a forensic tool to examine computer systems, or if you just want a concise introduction to the Linux operating system.

The topographic page layout bookmarklet displays more deeply nested web page elements in lighter background colors.

LinuxLaboratory.org features tutorials, reviews, FAQs, forums, and more, all centered on the world's most popular open-source operating system.

"TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor… It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances." If you know what all that means, you probably want it.

What to serve for dessert next Halloween: Thorax Cake.

"Ignorance Is Bliss?" … "Christian Fundamentalism is not just a quaint philosophy which honors the past; it's an absurd construct of superstitous notions wrapped in a package built on fear… How many more centuries of this nonsense must we endure?"

The researchers at Google Answers have produced a list of some websites containing copyright-free materials.