There was a threatened lawsuit against the Dep’t of Ed. here recently. The issue: could a graduating senior girl wear slacks under her gown. This was settled yesterday, after the state Attorney General told the DoE (paraphrasing): girls wearing slacks is a quite acceptable practice. The DoE is the institution which is responsible for educating …
Today’s statement of the obvious: “Sleepiness is a serious cause of social problems” Stay awake out there! Another statement which seems obvious: “Leaving a co-habitation, like a marriage, tends to have a detrimental effect on health…” If you’re observing, best do so in color. That seems to help image retention. One image you’d better retain …
Ho hum. Another month, another international treaty the Administration refuses to acknowledge. Today it’s the International Criminal Court. Before that it was Kyoto, the ABM Treaty, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation. For a group of people who vow to “shape” the world rather than react to it, these guys have a peculiar way of going about it. …
Just FYI for all the blogspotters and other blogger users: YACCS has upgraded its system to reduce its bandwidth usage, which requires that all its users also upgrade to its new format. You’ve got two months from April 29 of this year to do it; penalties may include preclusion of new comments to your posts. …
Should anyone come across this site looking for Verisign, please read the article linked and think twice about submitting your domain name to them for registration. The article relates a story which might give you pause, or indeed infuriate you. Thanks.
Springtime in…Kew Gardens? Can that be the home of reputedly the world’s smelliest flower? And now comes news that the world’s oldest flower may have been found in China (ok, the fossil thereof, anyway). Once you’ve absorbed that, play a rousing game of table ice hockey. More news from the UK: Monkey mascot elected mayor! …
For all you music fans who are looking for song lyrics or songs by an artist, check out the International Lyrics Playground button over there on the right, above the Hawai’i Stories one. Some friends and I worked pretty hard for a few months on that; it now has songs in the thousands, along with …
Caution: ill tempered whine ahead. I’m starting a campaign to persuade all MT users to feel pity for the 13″ screen users of the world (that would be me) and make their comment boxes resizable! It’s easy to do (thanks to Shelagh for showing me how): This is the code at the top of the …