Crash - if you send me an email address maybe I'll work on a better version and send it to you. I'm GibbonJabber SNAIL yahoo PERIOD commercial.

really don't know how many people would use such a script. Maybe if I put in some other blog reading features I have lying around it might become popular.

crsbarn @ #13 "the Preva xSport"

I really really leery of plastic food devices and high temperatures because the temperature helps leach out stuff like Bisphenol A.

actually it is very similar to a cheese steak, which can be hard to find in California.

Then again Jack-in-the-Box used to (or maybe they still do) served a "steak fajita" which was similar to a cheese steak.

A fairly crummy script.

If I had written it I would say that if the nodeValue, say v, found with

//div[@class='comment-header']/a[1]/text()

is in

idiots = {'troll': true, 'spaz bot': true}

ie. (idiots[v] == true)

Then the "comment-context"
//div[@class='comment-content']
should be hidden, and an eventListener attached to the comment-id (e.g. "#15")
//span[@class='comment-id']/text()
that toggles display of the hidden comment on and off when clicked.

I guess this would take about one dozen lines of code and be much more intelligible and functional.

And it wouldn't be facist. The comment would be there and you could click to see it if you really want.

Adding functionality to the script to allow it to have Trolls added, deleted, and remembered would probably take another 20 lines.

um, 16 bar = 232 psi (pounds per square inch)

very few bicycle pumps can go that high, though I believe the Campbell Hausfeld 12 Volt Inflator (cigarette lighter plug) goes over 200 psi.

And I do worry about pump lubricant in the compressed air.

Biometrics & RFID
This is just a push to have a mandated National ID and mandated IDs for foreigners in the US that contain biometric information and RFIDs.

Once the now-fly list goes biometric, then it will be obvious that people who have the same name as someone on the no-fly list but don't match the biometrics are ok.

This is basically be an ugly nuisance to make people clamor for IDs that might keep them from being hassled.

Frogs are pretty clean and tasty, that is if they are not living in open sewers.

the video cuts off in the middle for me. Does it work for anybody else?

Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator: Monkeyboy, are you kidding about the feces?

When I first heard about it I emailed a blogger in Austria and asked him if it was true that the Austrian media was buzzing about Bush's portable toilet.

He said it was, though he never provided any links to German language newspaper articles, and didn't know enough German to google some up.

Don't forget the toilet and toilet crew that Bush travels with so that his feces and urine can't fall into foreign hands.

Also, remember the Cheney, for security reasons, sometimes travels inside an air stream trailer that is loaded into a military transport.

The problem is that you can go online and find or buy lists of "opinion leader"/"contact point" email addresses.

What many people who use such lists don't realize is that they really don't work because lazy spamming to the whole list with PR releases has just made PR releases be considered more spam.

I wouldn't be nice to see what crap flows into the mailboxes of the US Governors, Senators, and Congress critters, because their emails are often included in lists of "opinion leaders".

AP/Ipsos provides 2 further pdf breakdowns of their poll.

Gee, why can't they just provide a spreadsheet of their raw data. It would only have 1,013 rows and would probably be smaller than their PDFs. The AP article mentioned a few correlations that weren't present in the PDFs:

Generally, women were more superstitious than men about four-leaf clovers, breaking mirrors or grooms prematurely seeing brides. Democrats were more superstitious than Republicans over opening umbrellas indoors, while liberals were more superstitious than conservatives over four-leaf clovers, grooms seeing brides and umbrellas.

I would be much more interested in looking at the raw data and seeing if religiosity, education, and income have correlations with supernatural beliefs.

Also in future polls they should include "belief in angels" which I think would give good correlations.