Month: February 2005

Umm….Huh?

This is why listening to Rush Limbaugh isn’t always good idea

Rep. Brian Duprey (R-Hampden) has submitted a bill to the State Legislature to shield potentially homosexual fetuses from discrimination. LD 908, “An Act to Protect Homosexuals from Discrimination,” attempts to protect homosexuals from death because they might carry the gene that could lead to homosexuality.

This bill as drafted would make it a crime to abort an unborn child if that child is determined to be carrying the “homosexual gene.” Duprey said that no such genetic marker has yet been discovered. But considering rapid advancements in genetic mapping research, he wants legislation in place should such a breakthrough occur. “If the homosexual gene is ever determined to exist,” he said, “I want to ensure that a woman could not abort an unborn child simply because that child is determined to be carrying this gene.”

Duprey received the idea for this bill when listening to the Rush Limbaugh radio show. “I heard Rush saying that the day the ‘gay gene’ is determined to be real, that overnight gays would become pro-life,” Duprey said.

Free SSL For Open Source Projects

If you’re running an Open Source project and are in need of a trusted secure certificate, Go Daddy will let you have one for free. Link via Bob Parson’s (Go Daddy’s founder) blog.

This Will Break Your Keyboard

This is one addicting Flash game. I managed to get to level 20 before I got so mad that I had to quit. Just don’t expect to be able to use your arrow keys after playing it for a while.

CSS Is So Dang Cool

A lot of people are linking to this guy’s entirely CSS maze, but I think his entire CSS Playground is very impressive. I especially like his method for hiding e-mail addresses, his CSS Art Gallery, as well as his buttons and menus area.

CSS is damn powerful, and I really wish I knew even half what this guy knows. I’m mostly posting this here so that I have it for reference to plagiarize look at for future designs.

Calvin And Hobbes Archive

Somebody had too much time on their hands, but I can’t say that I’m arguing with it: Here’s an archive of every single Calvin And Hobbes comic. The complete print archive can’t come soon enough.

E-mail Productivity Tips

These are great tips, and they make such common sense that I really don’t know what I wasn’t using them before. Link via the now full time job kottke.

Cell Phone Drivers Don’t Kill People

The reality is that unskillful or unwise drivers cause accidents, not their phones.

Do I Need A Jacket?

For the ultimate in laziness, just plug your city/state into this site, and it’ll tell you if need a jacket or not.

Or you could just look outside.

For Those Of You On My Mailing List

For those of you who signed up to receive my daily posts via e-mail, some of you may not be getting it. Why? Because you have crappy e-mail accounts or overzealous filtering.

So if you’d like to receive my posts via e-mail, that’s all fine and good, but please don’t sign up with a Hotmail or AOL account, as they work about once every two weeks, nor sign up with your military e-mail address, as the government e-mail servers give the posts here a “AKO CONTENT VIOLATION” error on a daily basis.

If you want to sign up for my mailing list, that’s fine and dandy, but do it with a good e-mail account. While Gmail is still in beta, they have a crapload of invites to give away here (I’m going to be dumping all my invites that I have there as well). I’d recommend you go and get one of those, and get rid of your Hotmail account.

71% Of Kids Are Lazy Bastards

Apparently being lazy, playing video games, IMing your friends, and mooching room and board off your parents is hard work and not relaxing enough for kids these days, because according to one study, 71 percent of children say they “need” a vacation. Full Story.