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Just created another special FX for Snazzy Archives ! This one is even crazier then the first one. I call it Snazzy Space (click to check out).Related Articles:Show me Options and Snazzy Archives plugins release Snazzy Archives Snazzzzzy Archives pre-release Wordpress Plugins True Knowledge project, Space Exploration…

This entry was cobbled together from last year's entry (8.15.2007) of the same title.Drawing on some previous recommendations and adding a couple of new titles, I pulled together some easy-to-digest books that may inspire you as you prepare for the new school year.Marva CollinsIn the 9.06.2006 "On the nightstand" I talked a bit about Marva Collins. Chicago appropriated Collins as one of its treasu

I have two very cool WordPress plugins to announce today. How many times have you activated a plugin and the searched hopelessly for it’s options page? With new plugins it is like a trend to hide them better. Show Me Options is a plugin…

I am announcing Snazzy Archives, plugin specially developed to display WordPress archives in a unique visual way. The idea comes from this page and people from a popular microblogging platform Tumblr have used it on their blogs as well. I created the…

Track List of Muddy Waters - Audio Archives Collectors Edition01. Muddy Waters - The Stuff You Gotta Watch02. Muddy Waters - She's All Right03. Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go04. Muddy Waters - Iodine In My Coffee05. Muddy Waters - So Glad I'm Living06. Muddy Waters - Sittin' Here Drinkin'07. Muddy Waters - One More Mile08. Muddy Waters - Close To You09. Muddy Waters - I Can't Call Her Sugar10

A valuable collection of photos found in the US embassy site split into three galleries: Habib Bourguiba, Mohamed Gammoudi ,Tunisian and American VIPs Exchange visits all in black and white dating since the late sixties for events relating both countries, the photos were given a full brief description but there were no credits about the photographers, the photos are available in large format enoug

Back in May Ancestry.com began alpha testing their World Archives Project. This project which will paunch in July in beta will consist of volunteers (people like you and I) that would like to index digitize records using an online tool. Then Ancestry will publish the index for free. Did you catch that? Index published for free!The images that go with the index will be included in their subscriptio

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If the lawnchair feels hard on your head, watch this video for an easy headrest solution, plus some other great tips for the RV lifestyle that you have chosen. These quick tips are brought to you by the RV Today show archives. To avoid the lawnchair bar feeling hard on your head, you can make a [...]

Biography - Bill Gates: Sultan of Software (A&E DVD Archives)比尔盖茨传Publisher: A&E Home Video Format:DVD 160MBNumber Of Pages: Publication Date: ISBN-10 / ASIN: B0002V7NOS ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780767052511 Without a doubt, Bill Gates will go down in history as one of the most influential people of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this tape, he is rightfully compared to ind

Have you downloaded a pile of online dissertations from dissertation archives in hope to tinker them and submit it as your own? Chances are…you will be caught for plagiarism!Catching plagiarized dissertations is not difficult now because of the availability of sophisticated plagiarism detection tools. Even if you copy a few parts from someone’s dissertation, you will still end up getting caugh

-heare If you can’t catch the radio shows live (10:00-11:00PM Eastern), then you can catch the archives at the link above.  It is easier to load the archives and listen than from the blogtalk site.

These pictures were taken back in 2004 and I’m not really sure how to react to them. On one hand you can think it’s a great service for these ladies to entertain the soldiers while they’re at war. Me personally? I think it’s a terrible idea. I know that if I were at [...]

With the furor brewing about Nas these days and the flood of interviews being posted I thought it would be a great time to dig in the archives and pull up STREET KNOWLEDGE’s interview with Nas,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Elsewhere, the idea of inept or failing homeschoolers is being discussed, particularly the comparison between traditionally schooled and homeschooled students, standards for homeschoolers, and the failure of some homeschooling families to deliver a certain type of education.My response, slightly edited, follows.Illinois law mentions providing an education in English comparable to that of same-aged

Plenty of criticism aimed at the by-election candidates concerning where they live and how much time they have spent in Crewe and Nantwich. So this in from a blog reader who had both Gwyneth and Tamsin Dunwoody to his daughter's Christening back in 1976. Seen here at St Mary's in Wistaston...

The task of priests Vatican II, in its' Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests (Presbyterorum Ordinis) No. 4, had this to say: "The People of God are joined together primarily by the word of the living God. And rightfully they expect this from their priests. Since no one can be saved who does not first believe, priests, as co-workers with their bishops, have the primary duty of proclaiming the

World Cup Soccer 2010.com - View ArchivesThe complete guide to the biggest soccer extravaganza in South Africa 2010 - World Cup Soccer"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="world cup 2010,south Source: www.worldcupsoccer2010.com World Cup 2010 | FC Football Blog - Football Highlights |Live Online The Qualifiers for the . Football highlights, live online footb

An archives page can be a really useful place for your readers to locate posts of interest or simply browse through your previous posts at leisure. Recently I've received some feedback from readers who suggested I create an easier method to browse previous posts. So I decided to create a dedicated "Archives Page" which I hope will help readers easily locate previous posts to s

Ephraim Karsh writes in Commentary magazine (Hat tip: IRIS Blog) some very important info that shows how it was the Arabs who left Israel and were not driven out by Israelis as the lie long told claimed: Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most

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Okay, so, just a heads up on what you’ll be reading this month. I’ve been digging through old files and have found a lot of stuff I want to share on here. I used to do fifteen minute writing sessions before bed. Often, they where just a journal of my thoughts from the day, but other [...]

If there's something that you missed, or you just want to be a nosy bastard - feel free to dig back into my archives. You may find something of use or interest.2006July | August | September | October | November | December2007January | February | March | April | May | JuneJuly | August | September | October | November | December2008January | February | March | April

See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya. Wesley Snipes goes to jail for 36 months on tax evasion charges. Whether or not he'll be cryogenically frozen, only to be released sometime in the future to wreak havoc on Sylvester Stallone

An archives page can be a really useful place for your readers to locate posts of interest or simply browse through your previous posts at leisure.Recently I've received some feedback from readers who suggested I create an easier method to browse previous posts. So I decided to create a dedicated "Archives Page" which I hope will help readers easily locate previous posts to suit their needs. My archives page features links to my monthly archives, an explanation for each category and also a simple search function for easy browsing.In today's post, I'll explain how I created my Blogger archives page, and list some of the reasons why this method of archiving could be useful for you too. Why you may want to create an "Archives" pageMost successful blogs feature a link to their archives pag

I searched for a good Wordpress plugin which worked great and makes the Archives look cleaner. The inspiration to search a Archives Plugin gives Jean Costa from jeancosta.com, because he has written a Review of my Blog. See the Review here. I´m very thankful for this Review, because now I see what I can do [...]

Taipei Times - archivesThis is the first step in building a respectable team that will enter the World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign,” he said. Montenegro, whose best known player is Roma striker Mirko Source: www.taipeitimes.com Sports Wagering Articles - Gambling Articles - Sports Gambling World Cup 2010 Qualifying Draw The 2010 World Cup qualifying [...]

STARBILT has been identified through the years as one of the leadewrs in the truck body building industry. You will find here a glaaery of projects which STARBILT has completed in nearly thrity (30) years of existence. Surely, you will find some units which you may have seen before or continue to see until now. As we in STARBILT would like to say, Our Best Testimonials Are Still On The Roads!

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 13, 2005 Well, I guess it is about time that I told you a bit about myself and my current evils. My weakness is and always has been anything that is part of the opiod family. Up until that first hit, I had been somewhat indifferent towards drugs but the moment that first [...]

THIS WAS FIRST WRITTEN JULY 12, 2005 I started methadone August of 1999. By then I was a solid year and a half into a pretty heavy opiate addiction. It had started with dilaudid but as soon as we were able we had moved on to heroin. We live in a funny city. While it is [...]

Archives: If you don't have archives on your page, then you're an idiot. No offense, but you are. Archives are your reader's main source of navigation.To Create:1) Got to layouts -> page elements.2) Click 'add a page element'4) Scroll down to the bottom and look to the left.5) Click 'add to blog' just under 'blog archive'6) For SEO Purposes select the following. a) Flat List b) Monthly c) date - year 'january 2006'7) SaveWant to see what the professional bloggers have on their blogs? Check it out!LEAVE A COMMENTBack to Home

Veterans demand that Cheney and Bush are charged with war crimesThis is the most stirring 2 minutes of video news I have seen in months. And a sad commentary on our media, as I find out about it 3 days after it happened. What if we all did this one day next week? At Federal buildings all across the country.

Working with tar Archives To create an archive of a directory tree with tar, you can do something like this: nikesh@poison:~/temp> tar -cf directory.tar directory/ nikesh@poison:~/temp> ls directory directory.tar The preceding command creates (c), verbosely (v), the file (f) directory.tar, which is a tar archive, by running tar on directory. If you want to list the files in the archive: nikesh@

A produtora SNK Playmore USA Corporation anunciou hoje que enviou a todas as lojas da América do Norte o jogo"Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Vol. 2", lançamento para Playstation 2. Na verdade, o título se trata de um pacote contendo três games da famosa e clássica franquia de luta da SNK: "Real Bout Fatal Fury", [...]

If you have downloaded videos that are in separate compressed parts like RAR, you know you would have to wait till all the parts get downloaded. The good news is there is a cool program that can relieve you from your boredom during the download completes. Ladies and gentleman, this is: Dziobas RAR Movie Player. This little utility (5MB setup) will allow you to open and play video file from the

If you have downloaded videos that are in separate compressed parts like RAR, you know you would have to wait till all the parts get downloaded. The good news is there is a cool program that can relieve you from your boredom during the download completes. Ladies and gentleman, this is: Dziobas RAR Movie Player. This [...]

We can empathize with Jason Wahler of "The Hills." It must hurt to see LC banging Brody Jenner, a dude that looks a little like you (shaved head, athletic build, Don Johnson stubble) but minus most of the baggage. It’s probably the same for Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell, who has to watch his former band mate Mat Brooke hit the skins with his Horses-esque project Grand Archives.

  Fazia tempo que não postavamos nada sobre o Wordpress, mas o motivo, como explicamos anteriormente tem sido a falta de oportunidade de testar e desenvolver novidades. Estaremos em breve disponibilizando 2 templates que já foram usados aqui no Dk design, e com este novo fizemos uma boa busca de novos plugins. Um deles se trata do Wordpress [...]

Neil Young is currently mixing tracks recorded with his long time band Crazy Horse at the Toast studio, San Francisco in 2000. Young is expected to release the material as part of his Archives series of work. The album will be called Toast, after the recording studio and has been described as  ‘bluesy’ and ‘jazz tinged’ by [...]

While I prepare other, more verbose posts, I shall regale you with the tale of Michael and the Guinea pig cage.It was back in May of 2005, after Michael had turned one and learned to walk. We simply weren't properly acclimated to the fact that he was getting into anything and everything within reach.We had two Guinea pigs. They were pets of my daughters, from years before. We didn't really have any good spot in the house for their cage; the kids didn't take care of them well enough to have them be in their bedroom, and most horizontal surfaces downstairs were already claimed by important, decorative and non-smelly things. So the Guinea pig cage got relocated a lot.At the time of the event, it was in the living room on a table.On this particular Saturday morning, the girls were watching TV,

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Recently, in another forum, I read an article that appeared in the monthly newsletter published by a popular Christian homeschool curriculum provider. The article details the many changes one woman made after listening to teacher-training tapes available through said curriculum provider. These changes included rethinking her wardrobe ("I'm a professional teacher. I simply don't get paid monetarily. However, now I dress like one.) and adopting a longer school-day schedule ("We commence around 7:30 a.m. and end by 4:30 p.m. whether we re finished or not.").I share neither the writer's religion nor her commitment to to the curriculum provider. I do, however, share her conviction that there's nothing wrong with inserting some, for lack of a better word, professionalism into the pursuit of home

Final shill for today. Here we have a brilliant collection from the Turner Classic Movies Archives featuring the Man of 1000 Faces, Lon Chaney. TCM Archives - The Lon Chaney Collection$35.99 This 2...

Every year of my seven-year working relationship with the man whose initial signature was "JOB," he greeted me such on this day in the Triduum. The first time it staggered me. Happy Good Friday? Even in my child-like understanding of the Roman Catholic tradition, I couldn't reconcile "Happy" with "Good Friday.""It's the beginning of the greatest mystery of our faith," he explained. "He dies, but we know how the story ends. He rises. It is a celebration, the greatest celebration in our tradition. Happy Good Friday."Happy Good Friday.[Mrs. M-mv now issues an advisory that some regular readers may wish to click away.]Once upon a time ago...I was a lector in one of the city's large Catholic parishes. I am a great reader-aloud (this is not self-congratulation, just a statement about one of my s

Sukar untuk mencari artikel yang anda inginkan dan mahukannya?Klik pada label Categories..semua artikel telah dikategorikan mengikut kategori masing..Anda juga boleh mencarinya di Blog Archives..cuma perlu open directory bagi setiap bulan..contohnya Mac..segala artikel yang telah dipost pada bulan Mac akan terletak di bawah archive Mac.

In the 1980s determined researchers began scouring the world for color film shot during World War II, and the result of their quest is spectacular. Seeing the war through the ubiquitous black-and-white footage has always made the experience somewhat distant, but in clear, crisp color, the enormity of the war and its horrors is startling and dramatic. Films of Nazi rallies are all the more disturbing; a viewer seeing the scene in color realizes the massive crowds saluting Hitler are no longer gray and faceless masses, but gatherings of well- dressed civilians. Color combat footage, from across Europe and the Pacific, is frighteningly immediate, and some of it, showing the wounded, the dead, and even prisoners being executed, will no doubt be disturbing for many viewers. Violence and destruc

I’ve been doing a bit of clearing out of old CD- and DVD-ROMs here at head office and among them was a shoot from 2005 by photographer Janet Liu. Obviously, as it was unpublished, she retains copyright in this image and I’m putting it up only for critiquing purposes—and to give Janet a small promotional [...]

Twenty-twothree years ago today, Mr. M-mv gave me an engagement ring. I was surprised about how and when he proposed, yes, but the idea of marriage? No surprises there. He had already told me that we would be getting married. He announced this about two weeks after our first date.Silly boy.I can only imagine how annoyed his parents must have been when he declared his intentions to them over supper one early-spring night in 1982. He was a just junior in high school at the time. Our own son is now about the same age Mr. M-mv was then, and if Master arrived home this evening and said, "I'm going to marry so-n-so," why, I think Mr. M-mv might choke on his bowl of oatmeal!It would be all right, though. The choking, I mean. Like his father was when he was seveneighteen, Master is certified in CP

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Do you ever go back into your archives and read the posts? I was doing that yesterday and found it quite interesting. I was 12 lbs lighter this time last year. (Make me puke, damn you Atkins, for making me...

Stanley Jordan shares the same birth date with me by the way, except that he's a good 14 years older.It's simply amazing to see this guy tapping effortlessly with all ten fingers simultaneously. Enjoy the video and accept the fact that God created some men with enormous talent so that most of us could emulate and admire them. And hopefully become like them too.

A few months back I wrote a post call Data Archiving Method where I talked about which media I chose to backup my scanned photo and negative archives. I also mentioned the labeling method I chose to keep track of each photo. I haven't wrote much about archive since then so I decided to provide more information for those that are archiving.In this post I will elaborate on the organizing and photo properties that I have chosen for the archives.Archive File PropertiesThere is always talk on forums and Web sites on what resolution to scan originals (both photos and negatives) in order to archive them in a digital format. There really doesn't seem to be one preferred method to choose, so I came up with my own that I will use. It may not be the best method, or the one you prefer, but it works fo

The BJAI has opened the doors on its newest facility!Presenting The Brett M Jensen Awesomeness Institute Archives. This 405-story monolith to greatness will be completed later this afternoon. (The lead engineer's life depends on it) The structure is to house letters not featured on the website's front page. They haven't moved to retirement. They've just moved to the tallest structure on earth. You can access these little trips into pant-wetting nostalgia by navigating to archived letters on the right bar, or by clicking "Older Posts" at the bottom of the front page. Only the 25 most incredible (read: Newest) letters will be featured here.Oh yeah, and kiss my ass.

MAGAZINE DEBUT: Today is the launching of the new online Homeschool magazine  The Heart of the Matter. You will find a multitude of great writers, whose columns focus strictly on Homeschool, news about home schooling, field trips, etc! Sallie's column is titled A Square Peg and it will focus each month on the blessings and challenges of home schooling children with disabilities.OTHER UPDATES: Archives from the blog "Everyday Me.. life as it happens" for the first half of 2007 are now finished at our home page. To recap from older posts, all of 2004, 2005, 2006, and January through June, as well as the month of December, for 2007 are now finished and archived at Many of the pages throughout our family site have been created with simple color schemes and no graphics for faster lo

Train Up A Child Thursday has all been archived on our Proverbs 22:6 page.Blog Archives for the months in 2007 of January, February, March, and April are completed. A few more recipes were added to the Well Made Meals page.

"In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "Conversion is accomplished in daily life by gestures of reconciliation, concern for the poor, the exercise and defense of justice and right, by the admission of faults to one's brethren, fraternal correction, revision of life, examination of conscience, spiritual direction, acceptance of suffering, endurance of persecution for the sake of righteousness. Taking up one's cross each day and following Jesus is the surest way of penance." (1435).In other words, our transformation in Christ, our daily conversion, is made manifest by such gestures of reconciliation by which we demonstrate our commitment toward the theological virtue of charity "by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God" (CCC, 1822). "Read the rest by clicking on this Blog post title.

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WELL, I've spent some time over the past couple of days modifying the site to be a bit more user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing. Aside from that stuff (which pales in comparison), I've started entering things into the archives, going as far back as 2003 (.. which is as far back I'll probably leave things: seriously, high-schoolers are dumbasses, even when they're you). Right now these include some of the best posts from those past years, not to mention the life and times of Manager DAVE (start at the bottom and work up; there are two pages): the hiring, emotion, and firing of a young manager fallen on troubled times. Really, quite moving stuff. You can access the archives both with the large Archives area/calendar to the left or the 'Archives' link on the Navigation menu.

  Yesterday I discovered great new application - which could totally replace the popular software for mounting of disk images such as Alcohol and Daemon Tools. This new application is called WinMount and it mounts ZIP or RAR archives in virtual drives instead of uncompressing them. This will save you a lot of time as the files bacome available to use almosy instantly. The interface of the program is as simplified as it could be - and even a beginner won`t have any troubles to operate with it. There are 3 main buttons - one for mounting an archive , another one for moutning an image and a third which you press when you want to create a virtual drive.   As I mentioned you could use WinMount instead of Alcohol и Daemon Tools to mount image files - and for that you will not have to install driver for permanent virtual drive - instead everything gets mounted in progress. The difference is that you could mount the standard images such as (CUE, BIN, CCD – CloneCD, BWT – Bli

Our 10.31.2003 RDA was Morris Berman's The Twilight of American Culture, a book, as we noted then, that "inspires copious note-taking and several runs to the library to find the many texts to which he refers in making his impassioned argument for a monastic approach to preserving what is best about our culture."Berman posits that our culture — as successful and pervasive as it may seem — is in decline. He refers to Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West:Every civilization has its twilight period, said Spengler, during which it hardens into a classical phase, preserving the form of its central idea, but losing the content. Hence, Egyptism, Byzanticism, Mandarinism. In the American case... ‘McWorld’ — commercial corporate consumerism for its own sake.Berman’s is a bleak forecast.Our entire consciousness, our intellectual-mental life is being Starbuckized, condensed into a prefabricated designer look in a way that is reminiscent of that brilliant, terrible film The Invas

The following material first ran three years ago today.The text (Dylan Thomas) and the illustrations (Chris Raschka) of A Child's Christmas in Wales have transformed the geography of the imaginations of the Misses M-mv, whose desks are strewn with their own drawings depicting their favorite passages of this seasonal favorite."But that was not the same snow," I say. "Our snow was not only shaken from white wash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like a dumb, numb thunder-storm of white, torn Christmas cards.""Were there postmen then, too?""With sprinkling eyes and wind-cherried noses, on spread, frozen feet they crunched up to the doors and mittened on them manfully. But all that the children could hear was a ringing of bells."Have you heard Th

this tendency to disparage others for their pursuit of excellence when a moment of clarity (or an epiphany) reveals in bas relief the disparity between one's ideal self and one's real self."Oh, no," one protests. "This is not my fault, at all. It is his. He raised the bar impossibly high. No, no. He is the problem. Not me. I am in tune with my needs, my limitations. It's all well and good for him to talk about this or that. But in practice, well, it's an impossibility, no?"Um, no.But that's okay. Because apparently it feels better to assign blame, and we do want folks to feel good about themselves, don't we? Besides, acknowledging one's own complicity in his or her slip-slide into mediocrity is a scary, scary business.BOO!Heh, heh, heh.Over the course of this past week, I was reminded of Joseph Epstein's Snobbery: The American Version. I first recommended it in the 1.11.2004 RDA.Epstein wittily shivers and shimmies along compelling philosophical and psychological branches, fina

I turned 30 in 2004. My kids made birthday cards for me. If you haven’t seen this before, you are in for a treat. _______________ Tuesday was my 30th birthday. It was a nice day and not at all devastating like I thought it would be. I could have lived without the pranks my coworkers pulled, but I’d have felt left out if they hadn’t sabotaged my desk like they’ve done for all the other 30, 40 and 50 year-olds. My husband gave me Reservoir Dogs on DVD and a book about essential oils. I’ve started reading the book and so far, so good. I already know I like the movie - though I’m not jazzed about seeing the “ear scene” from different camera angles. Like, barf. I got a phone call from a good friend and for a few minutes, thought I’d been gifted a singing telegram or something. I had NO idea who was singing “Happy Birthday” to me! Woo. She can sing. My kids gave me the best presents of all. Each of them made a little card for

A couple of years ago, my sister-in-law asked me to be a bridesmaid. I accepted the invitation and then promptly lost my mind. The following is what happens when I stop trying to be real and try to look nice. Originally posted in June 2005, this has been edited because I’m not afraid to say, “I could have said that better.” There’s a section that still isn’t quite working for me, but I’m not ready to part with it. Maybe when I post this again in 2009, I’ll get it just right. _______________ I tried on a pretty, pale green dress for my sister-in-law’s wedding. When I saw the delicately colored dress next to my blinding white skin, I panicked. See, I’m white like milk. I burst into flames in direct sunlight. The only way I get “tan” is when my freckles pop up, spread out and bump into each other. I think you get it. I did not want to be the oldest, fattest and palest bridesmaid. Two out of three is bad enough. So, I did what any desperat

I like to read through my archives, even though there is more than enough slop in there to blush and groan over. Sometimes I think, “Wow. I wrote that?” Other times I think, “Uh, wow. Why did I write that?” For the most part, I like what I’ve done here. Here’s a totally non-important post from February 2006. This is shortly before I started working through some heavy stuff. I like how conversational this is and how I let my brain bounce from one thing to the next and just went with it. Note: Some of this is dated. The Bloglines subscription I mention is no longer maintained. A more up-to-date blogroll can be found here. The image is used without permission. On with the show. _______________ Insomnia. Sucks. SO, I’m AWAKE. How are YOU? I could have taken more Tylenol PM tonight but if I’m going to be hooked on something that makes me feel like I have really big teeth but doesn’t make me feel sleepy, I want to be hooked on something c

As we mentioned in our initial blog, certain stories that we collected for "The Man Who Scared a Shark to Death (and other true tales of drunken debauchery)" did not make the final cut due to length concerns, or, in the case of this particular story, because of an overall consensus between the writers and Penguin Canada that it was just too disgusting.However, in the interests of completeness -- the star of this one deserves a spot among the world's most notable drunks, even if his story is far more nauseating than the others -- we have decided to post the unpublished parts of the book here on occasion.We included many stories of drunks trying to beat the law, however few of our protagonists took matters as far as the gentleman in this following story, and hopefully very few have since.Coprophagia, the consumption of faeces, from the Greek copro (faeces) and phagy (eat) is practiced by several animals due to limitations of their digestive systems or diets. The makers of Binaca breath

I’ve posted 239 times in the last 10 months and that’s A LOT of writing. I thought it’d be a good time to look back and pluck out a few of my favorite pre-trip posts for the newer readers. Saving for a Trip Around the World (6-part series) Couchsurfing - A Brilliant Social Network for Travelers (3-part series) My Backpack Tells a Story 5 Reasons Why I Travel Would You Accept a Sponsored Trip Around the World? Picking a Trek: Annapurna Circuit v. Everest Base Camp (Jake Norton commented, sharing advice with me - he has climbed Mt. Everest twice!) Top 5 Adrenaline Rushes in New Zealand (see what I’ll be doing next month!) Blue Ribbon Manhattan - New York City’s Best Late Night Dining (photos: bone marrow and rack of lamb) Cambodia and The Killing Fields Dental Dilemma (4-part series about getting an implant) Sponsored By: Rail Connection - Experience the romance, adventure, convenience and reliability of rail travel Blogging, Pre trip MusingsShare This

I’ve posted 239 times in the last 10 months and that’s A LOT of writing. I thought it’d be a good time to look back and pluck out a few of my favorite pre-trip posts for the newer readers. Saving for a Trip Around the World (6-part series) Couchsurfing - A Brilliant Social Network for Travelers (3-part series) My Backpack Tells a Story 5 Reasons Why I Travel Would You Accept a Sponsored Trip Around the World? Picking a Trek: Annapurna Circuit v. Everest Base Camp (Jake Norton commented, sharing advice with me - he has climbed Mt. Everest twice!) Top 5 Adrenaline Rushes in New Zealand (see what I’ll be doing next month!) Blue Ribbon Manhattan - New York City’s Best Late Night Dining (photos: bone marrow and rack of lamb) Cambodia and The Killing Fields Dental Dilemma (4-part series about getting an implant) Sponsored By: Rail Connection - Experience the romance, adventure, convenience and reliability of rail travel Blogging, Pre trip MusingsShare This

The Catholic Church first officially started keeping a library around the fourth century. Formed at the height of the first great heresy craze, the contents of this library included a lot of attacks on heretical branches of Christianity and the documents and scriptures used by these heretical branches (which the Church fathers admitted to having read). [more]

Friday, April 27, 2007Long before the Second Vatican Council, when Nazism reared its ugly head and the Jewish People were dehumanized and sent to death camps as part of Hitler's "Final Solution," Pope Pius XI raised his voice:"Pius XI responded by issuing in 1937 the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge condemning the Nazi ideology of racism and totalitarianism and Nazi violations of the concordat. Copies had to be smuggled into Germany so they could be read from the pulpit. As the extreme nature of Nazi racial anti-Semitism became obvious, and as Mussolini in the late 1930s began imitating Hitler's anti-Jewish race laws in Italy, Pius XI made his position clear, both in Mit Brennender Sorge and in a public address in the Vatican to Belgian pilgrims in 1938: "Mark well that in the Catholic Mass, Abraham is our Patriarch and forefather. Anti-Semitism is incompatible with the lofty thought which that fact expresses. It is a movement with which we Christians can have nothing to do. No, no, I

I was reading through the archives since I was home yesterday still too sick to be around too many people, especially babies, at church. It always amazes me the things I remember about Caleb and Asperger Syndrome when I look through this blog. We first received the diagnosis of Aspergers back in December of 2004. It's hard to believe we've known about it for that long. The article below is from February 2005 and talks about what I considered stages a parent goes through after diagnosis. I hope you'll click over and take a look..http://www.angelfire.com/sc/anderklan/blahblahblog/index.blog/1255951/a-year-in-the-life-of-aspergers/Tags: A Year in the life of Aspergers, Asperger Syndrome, Autism Spectrum

Yes, the anniversary celebration continues here at M-mv. Four years of reading, thinking, and learning -- and writing about (or synthesizing) that reading, thinking, and learning.Happy anniversary, fellow readers, thinkers, and autodidacts.Book warsIn other forums, other essays, I have posited that in one hundred years, lit students will likely study the sprawling, sometimes sloppy, always accessible novels of Stephen King in the same way lit students once studied the sprawling, sometimes sloppy, always accessible novels of Charles Dickens.Heresy, spit some.Ayup, maintain others.It is a discussion that can easily and quickly dissolve into a shouting match between polemicists, this dialogue about literature. Not unlike discussions about, say, politics or religion.What is literature? What should people read? Quick! Choose a side!Well, certainly not King, maintains the cranky but brilliant scholar Harold Bloom."The decision to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for 'distin

Today Master M-mv is eighteen.He didn't ask my permission. He simply grew up... an outcome for which I had steeled myself early: "We are letting them go from the moment they arrive in our lives," I would intone, as if I were some sage Earth Mother-type with wisdom to spare.Yeah, right. Well, I'm no Earth Mother. And while my words may have been letting him go, my heart was having none of it.There, in my heart, he will always be some shimmering morph of the beautiful, easy-natured baby he was and the good man he has become.Later...What is it about fall that makes me feel this way?Is it something about the butter-yellow sun in the impossibly blue sky? Or the way the light slants through the windows at cool-weather angles? Or is it the smell of burning leaves? The feel of flannel sheets?What is it about fall that makes me feel much too young to be the mother of a man? That makes me feel that it all passed too quickly? That I'd like another decade, please?Wait. Stop. I want to get off.S

Yes, the anniversary celebration continues here at M-mv. On Saturday, Miss M-mv(ii) and I visited a new-to-us pet shop, in which I saw fluorescent danios -- pink, green, yellow, and orange. This reminds me of something, I thought. But what? And then I remembered.Today's entry is excerpted from my 12.04.2003 post.From the archivesWhile skimming headlines at CNN, I saw this story about the first bio-engineered household pet: "Glofish," a zebra fish that glows fluorescent. Zebra fish [or danios] are usually black and silver; "Glofish" are inserted with genes from sea anemones or jellyfish, which turns them red or green. They glow under black or ultraviolet lights.According to the story:California is the only state with a ban on genetically engineered species, and the Fish and Game Commission said it would not exempt the zebra fish from the law even if escaped fish would not pose a threat to the state's waterways."For me it's a question of values, it's not a question of science," said

Your Traffic, Boost Your Google Ranking, Optimize Adsense to Noelia Rides Again; Canon HV20 Does Paris Bistro; Pretty Girl From Your YouTube Videos; Iraqi Woman Tortured into Confession to Social Change WebsitesWho's that Girl? I received an email from Allan Benamer, over at Confessions of earn on their site from ad networks such as Google Adsense.

Continuing the anniversary celebration, I brought this post up from the archives.How do you have time to read, write, keep house, etc.?Over the last six years, I've fielded some derivation of this question too often to count.There exists in me a curmudgeonly inclination to lob this back into the inquirer's court: How do you not? But some readers are too sensitive for this bold an approach.Heh, heh, heh.Look. My writing is my work. Asking me how I find time to write is a bit like asking a barkeep how he finds time to tend bar or an information systems engineer how she makes time to develop projects. It's what I do, and in order to be paid -- well and on time -- I must get the work done.The rest? The reading, learning, living, blogging even? Well, I sleep less to read more, and I have, quite simply, never understood the big deal about keeping an organized and comfortable home.But if you require something more specific, consider this list of don'ts the next time you find that you have

As I mentioned earlier this week, Mental multivitamin is now four years old. To mark the occasion, I've been browsing through the archives. Below is an excerpt from one of my early entries. I think that the only thing that troubles me about the entry is that, out of context, it would seem that the writer of this post bears no relationship to the writer who frequently maintains, "It can't all be Shakespeare, Bach, and Latin!" or professes her abiding affection for a certain weekly periodical. Meh. You regulars know what I'm getting at here.Happy anniversary to us, then.From the archives: If you want it, you will make time for it.In another forum I visit, I advised a poster that she might need more space and time in which to think, write, and read. My suggestion prompted one of those, "Oooooh! How do you do it?" replies (not from the original poster, by the way) that I receive often in both virtual and real life. I'm betting some of you fellow readers, thinkers, and autodidacts hear

Four years ago this month, I established Mental multivitamin for readers, thinkers, and autodidacts. The following is one of my earliest entries.It's like a muscle: Use it or lose it.Yeah, that's a bit trite, but so true: If you don't use your brain, it's going to fail you — first, in small ways, of the "Honey, where are my keys?" variety, but later in scary-big ways, of the "Do I know you, Honey?" variety. And so, fear of ending up like Costello's Veronica motivates my unflagging commitment to autodidacticism (i.e., brain exercise for loners).According to an Associated Press piece at Health Education Alliance for Life and Longevity:"There are some things that, if you know you have a family history (of Alzheimer's) and you're just 20 to 30 years old, you can start doing to increase your protective factors," said Dr. Amir Soas of Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland.It's also good advice for the average baby boomer hoping to stay sharp, or the mom primin

Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, here’s a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing. Kottke.org September 19, 2007