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February 14, 2001
 Opera Advantages
Opera's home page is http://www.opera.com
Let's be clear, one major advantage of Opera is that it's not IE and it's not Netscape...not that I really have much of a grudge against Netscape, it's just that Netscape is like watching your favorite uncle turn into a blind raving idiot. You may still love the inner person, but you aren't going to leave him alone with the kids or give him the keys to the SUV.
Any browser that functioned and was not IE or Netscape would be good enough for me, but Opera has mega-advantages, too. Nonetheless, let's address the single disadvantage:
Disadvantage
Opera claims to comply to the HTML 4.01 standard better than the two major browsers, and maybe that's true. But IE is the 800 pound gorilla, and a lot of web pages are written to IE-standards. Sometimes I run across sites that do not respond when viewed with Opera. For those I use IE. Details on Opera compliance are available at http://www.opera.com/opera5/specs.html
Cheap or Free
You can get it for free now, if you're willing to tolerate ads in your browser. I recommend you pay the $39 registration fee to get rid of the ads. I paid for it once back when it was version 3-something, and I'm still getting upgrades for free. The download page is http://www.opera.com/download/
Small Download
If you already have Sun-Java 2.12 installed, then your Opera download is only 2.08 MB. But if it's your first time getting Opera, then you'll probably need the Sun-Java 2.12 package too, in which case the total download comes to 9.76 MB. (Subsequent upgrades require downloads of only the smaller package). This is still substantially smaller than IE 5.5, and it's a complete download so you can go install it on multiple machines without having to go back on line for more.
Once installed it consumes vastly less disk space than IE, and (they say) it consumes less memory. I'm not techy enough to try to guess how much memory IE consumes.
News & Mail
In version 5 Opera added e-mail and a usenet news reader. I haven't used them, but I have read comments from others who say they like them.
Operating Systems
Besides Windows, there are versions of Opera for the Mac, for Linux, for BeOS and for EPOC.
Faster Maybe
They say it runs faster. I know on my PC it certainly loads faster than IE and it will render a page faster than Netscape. IE and Opera seem to render pages at about the same speed, but I can go faster in Opera just because of the improved user interface. I have more keystrokes available and keystrokes are almost always faster than mousing.
Ctrl-Shift-Click
In IE and Opera (and probably Netscape) you can use Shift-Click if you want to open a link in a new window. In addition, Opera lets you use Ctrl-Shift-Click which opens the link in a new window BEHIND the current window. This allows you to fly down a list of links and open all of them without obstructing the view of the window where you're working.
Back/Forward Via Mouse
Opera has a cool (unannounced) feature. Besides the usual methods of going back or forward through the pages, you can hold down the left mouse button and click the right button to go forward, or hold the right mouse button and click the left to go back. If you're already mousing, it's fabulous.
Linked Window
In Opera when you have a window open you can create a linked window, then whenever you click on a link in the first window, the link opens in the linked window. Tile your windows and this makes it easy to run down a list of links if you only want to open one at a time.
Keystrokes
This is THE BIG ADVANTAGE, as far as I'm concerned. (Well...second after not being IE.) Opera can be run entirely with keystrokes, if you want. That is, you can use it mouse-free. A complete list of keyboard features is at http://www.opera.com/keyboard.html so I'll just cover the major highlights.
| The following two can give you a little more screen real estate. |
| toggles the scroll bar |
| toggles the progress display |
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| Next link |
| Previous link |
| Back |
| Forward |
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| Open Hotlist (Bookmarks) as a window for keyboard navigation |
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| go to address field of current window |
| return to window |
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| opens the right-click menu |
| opens the right-click menu on a link |
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| Toggle the loading of graphics in current window |
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| Print Preview |
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| Jump between ALL elements on a page: all graphics, all text, all links |
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| Go to your home page |
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| Open the "direct addressing" box, allowing you to type in a URL for a new window |
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| Opens the "links in frame" box, which is nothing more than a list of every link in the current window. Very useful. |
| Opens a global history window. Scroll back through DAYS worth of links. Netscape used to have this, IE never did (or I've never been able to find it). No bull shit. Just a list of where you've been. Double-click any item and you go back there again. |
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| You can compensate for a lot of bad design using the following 6 choices |
| zoom in 10% (or press 0) |
| zoom out 10% (or press 9) |
| zoom in 100% (or press 8) |
| zoom out 100% (or press 7) |
| reset zoom to original 100% (or press 6) |
| Toggles between "document mode" and "user mode." "Document mode" uses the style sheets and fonts that the web developer decided on. "User mode" substitutes your style sheet and font settings, if any. |
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| Previous window |
| Next window |
| Next frame |
| Minimize window |
| Maximize window |
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| Duplicate window |
| Close all windows, but keep Opera running |
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| Keyboard shortcuts |
Do vegans and the people at PETA know about this? And what do they use for plywood in India? I clearly remember being taught all about plywood in shop class, but they never, ever told us it was just soaking with animal blood protein! This article is from the January 13, 2001, issue of Science News.
Soybeans could beef up plywood glues
Soon, plywood might go vegetarian. The ubiquitous building material owes its strength to multiple wood sheets with their grains at right angles and tenacious glue between the layers. Now, researchers are proposing that plywood be manufactured using glue made with soy flour rather than with powdered cattle-blood protein, as is done conventionally. The vegetable-containing adhesive might reduce the wood's cost and alleviate health concerns among mill workers.
A leading incentive for finding such an alternative is workers' fears of breathing in cattle-blood dust and disease agents it might carry, says Mila P. Hojilla-Evangelista of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Peoria, Ill. Furthermore, there are few suppliers of the blood protein, which helps make the glue sticky and durable.
In work funded by the United Soybean Board, Hojilla-Evangelista and her colleagues developed and tested several glue formulations that use different amounts of soy ingredients from a variety of suppliers. Three glues that contain soy flour—a combination of soy protein and starch— have properties comparable to those made with the blood protein, says Hojilla-Evangelista. In tests, the soy-containing glues were at least as strong as the conventional glue and had comparable water resistance, she says.
The new glues also had foaming behavior comparable to that of blood-protein glue. Foaming is an essential trait for glue used in one of the major methods for making plywood. During this manufacturing process, known as foam extrusion, machines squirt the glue in evenly spaced lines onto each successive ply, says Rick Haig of ARS.
Good foaming ensures that the glue will coat the entire sheet when another layer of wood is pressed on. Foam extrusion uses less glue than other techniques, such as brushing, rolling, or spraying, he says.
Pacific Adhesives Co. of Portland, Ore., which makes foam-extrusion equipment, is now testing the ARS formulations. In these experiments, the soy-containing glues foam just as well or better than blood-containing glue, says company president Tom Demaree. The company is still examining the soy glues' adhesive properties, he says, and is planning full-scale mill trials.
Paper and wood materials giant Georgia-Pacific is also testing several formulations of the new glue, says company researcher Mel Foucht in Decatur, Ga. "I think that it has a lot of potential," he comments. For one thing, he says, the soy-containing glue has a longer shelf life than conventional glue. He speculates that the soy glue might not be limited to foam-extrusion processes.
Ultimately, cost may determine the new glues' fate. The soy glues are slightly less expensive than those that contain animal protein, Hojilla-Evangelista says. Although modest, such savings could add up for mills that use tons of glue annually to make industrial quantities of plywood.
—J Gorman
February 13, 2001
PORN, of the Lego variety! And you will enjoy reading here, too!
February 10, 2001
From a Libertarian Party press release in response to a proposal to spend $400,000 in federal money to subsidize a memorial for Dr. Seuss:
Green Eggs And Pork
We do not like it
Pork-I-Am,
This spendaholic
Uncle Sam.
We do not like those
Rs and Ds,
Who can't resist more
subsidies.
We do not like the cash they waste;
sky-high taxes spent in haste.
Frugality, they have erased,
and every bill, of pork it tastes.
We do not like it on the Hill,
When snuck into HUD's spending bill.
It shouldn't pass -- we bet it will
More money from the public till.
If YOU don't like
this Pork-I-Am
Start voting
Libertarian.
WE would not vote for
Pork-I-Am.
Or subsidize
green eggs and ham.
Job training programs
for the Grinch?
We would not even
budge an inch.
And if a cat
needed a hat?
Free enterprise is
there for that.
Now, just in case you are obtuse
I'll make it clear, with no excuse
We would not do it for a moose
We would not do it for a goose
And as you may by now deduce --
We'd vote "no" on Dr. Seuss.
"It's like the whole world is rushing through a straw and you've poked a hole in the side and there's a tiny bubble coming out but it's actually like cycling liquid the whole time, you know, but it's not dripping down, and you're in that little bubble." This in response to the question "What's smoking PCP like?"
Go read the whole story here, but skip it if you're a weeny.
The story behind the pink flamingo.
And a place to enjoy its retail aspects.
Can you believe someone would create a Banner Ad Museum?!
Monday
This is from Yahoo.
A Valentine's Card From Eros
By Susan Karlin
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two days before Valentine's Day, a rocket will penetrate Eros, named after the Greek god of love, and you can watch it live.
On Feb. 12, a spacecraft is set to land on asteroid Eros and stream a series of photographs to the Web in nearly real time, two images a minute, at http://near.jhuapl.edu, scientists hope. At more than 196 million miles from Earth, it is the most distant object on which man has landed a craft.
The landing will be the grand finale of a one-year orbital mission, the first in NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) program, seeking to determine Eros' mineralogical makeup and relationship to comets, meteorites and the origin of the solar system.
"We fulfilled our primary science goals of the mission and wanted to find some way to end our mission on a high note," said mission director Robert Farquhar of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which built the solar-powered craft. "This also gave us the opportunity to do some bonus science and things with a spacecraft that had never been done before."
Not to mention that the craft will have insufficient fuel to get home anyway.
Asteroids are comprised of many of the same elements as Earth, but in ratios and compositions uncompromised by weather and seismic activity. As a result, their makeup helps to understand what the solar system was like in its infancy.
The kidney bean-shaped Eros was chosen for its accessibility and size, about that of Manhattan, making it the second-largest of the near-Earth asteroids whose orbits take them between Earth and Mars. It is believed that Eros, which will have traveled beyond Mars' orbit at the time of the landing, broke away from a body from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
'When It Hits, It Could Roll Over'
A camera mounted on the side of the NEAR Shoemaker craft -- named after the late Gene Shoemaker, who co-discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994 -- will take pictures as it descends toward Eros' cratered surface, giving mankind its closest look at an asteroid. It will take clear pictures to within a half mile (1 km) of the surface.
Of course it would not be a NASA event without some drama, and there is a chance the craft could become a crash test dummy. The goal is to hit the surface of Eros at between 2 and 7 mph and come to rest at an angle on the edge of the solar panels, with the transmission antenna pointing toward the Earth.
"When it hits, it could roll or fall on its antenna," Farquhar said. "There's also less than a 1 percent chance of being able to contact it after landing."
Meanwhile, NASA continues to investigate the solar system's origin. It hopes to bring back samples from an asteroid and is working on a mission in 2004 in which a craft will blow a hole in a comet and analyze the debris that comes out.
By 2008, NASA expects to have tracked 90 percent of all near-Earth objects, including those roughly a half mile or larger in size that have a chance of -- dare we think it? -- crossing Earth's orbit.
But Eros marks the beginning.
"It's the first time we'll be that up-close and personal with the type of object that could have eliminated the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and the beginning of understanding these objects," Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for space science, said.
"It will be useful to future generations that might have to deal with it."
Today I saw a triple-car train on the Green Line for the first time in many years. While they run triples (and quadruples, too, I think) on the SF Muni, they discontinued it after a short trial in Boston. I think they said they drew too much power. I have noticed signs appearing over the last several weeks in a few stations that would to the driver where the front car of a triple should stop. The one I saw running was made up of Kinki cars and had a sign in the front driver's window saying "3 Car Train."
Where have those Italian cars gone? Back for some kind of refitting? Or stripped of their parts to make the Acela run? I don't miss 'em. Although they are wheelchair accessible, they're less comfortable and seem to have less seating. Once those get into full operation you know the aisle congestion will be even worse as people will resist climbing and descending steps to move further back.
Get morbid with the Deathclock.
Have you seen the lovable Bonsai Kitty?
People who hate cell phone users (we are not one of them) would probably like to nominate this for a Darwin Award, but, really, would that be fair? I mean, how many of us keep up to date on what sort of electronic devices might interfere with an avalanche transceiver's digital signal.
Never go skiing with a mobile phone
From The Register
By: Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 08/02/2001 at 12:15 GMT
Mobile phones are evil, evil we tell you. Yesterday the Danes told us that they didn't cause cancer, but even if they don't, mobiles can still kill you.
We're not talking about the Mexican who dropped his mobile in the lion's cage at the zoo and was attacked when it went off as he was retrieving it. We're not on about poor old Noel Connelly who fell from his London balcony while trying to get a good signal. Nor the German businessman who was beaten to death for having a really irritating phone ring.
No, we're talking of the poor skier who died in the Alps having been caught up in an avalanche. He was actually securing the area when the avalanche hit him and he was buried. A colleague rushed to locate him with the standard bit of kit - the ARVA 9000 apparently - but couldn't get a fix on the man, even though he was just 50 meters away.
The reason? The searcher had his mobile phone turned on and it was disrupting the avalanche transceiver's digital signal. Eventually, an analogue transceiver was located but it was too late and the man was dead. Now all searchers are being advised to turn off their phones when looking for someone - even the analogue kit is slightly affected by the mobile signal.
Now don't try and tell us that mobiles aren't dangerous.
February 8, 2001
Indulge your need for chili pepper lights here.
"We slept well for the first time since 1998. The high pitched tone in our ears is much less under the canopy and we feel much less nervous. It's a wonderful feeling to be under the canopy"
R.M. (UK) 7/2000
Tired of those pill pushing psychiatrists messing with your life? Relax and surrender to your schizophrenic urges. Toss the pills and protect yourself from radiation and beams aimed at you with the fabulously useful (and expensive) products here at the The EMF Safety Superstore! $54 for boxer shorts. But such boxer shorts you've never worn before!
Do Fake Boobs Go to Heaven? (from The National Review)
Rod Dreher, a columnist at the New York Post, was formerly film critic for the paper February 6, 2001 10:30 a.m.
Do fake boobs go to heaven too? I ask because if the feature film Left Behind has it right, and all the true believers in Jesus Christ will be beamed to paradise in advance of the Antichrist's rule, and the clothes off each Christian's back will fall right where he or she stood before God's eye twinkled — well, what, then, is going to happen to breast implants? Artificial knees and hips? Does Pastor Jay Bakker, the pierced progeny of Jim and Tammy Faye, get to take his golden liploop to that dee-luxe apartment in the sky?
Sorry to be impious, brethren and sistren, but Left Behind made me do it. The movie, which opened in theaters this past weekend after selling nearly 3 million copies on videocassette, is bad beyond all telling. It's like The Day of the Jackal as conceived by Ned Flanders, and produced by the film and video department of a rural Bible college. Hoo boy, is this thing ever an embarrassment.
(But probably not as much of an embarrassment as the forthcoming apoca-palooza productions from the same Christian studio, Cloud Ten Pictures, which are touted on the video as "coming attractions." One, called Tribulation, features an all-star cast that includes a horribly bloated Gary Busey, Margot Kidder, and Howie Mandel. Oy. Another, Judgment stars L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen as a heathen lawyer who comes to Christ while defending a believer in a courtroom during a future persecution. Judgment also stars Mr. T., who observes grandly, "It ain't God world anymore. It belong to th' debbil." Verily, verily I say unto you, I pity th' fool who has to review these movies.)
Because Left Behind comes from the Earnestness Is Next to Godliness school of Christian art, I am compelled to make two declarations. One, I am a believing Christian, though as a Catholic, one who no longer shares the eschatological convictions of Left Behind. Two, my problems with this movie have nothing to do with religion; many good and intelligent people, among them dear friends, believe in the End Times theology espoused by Left Behind, and a film critic is in no position to judge them on this.
No, this is about art, and the wrongheaded idea that a movie should be judged on its usefulness in spreading a particular message (pop Catholicism has its own version of Left Behind, usually based around alleged Marian apparitions). It's about the difference between art and propaganda, and if the people who made Left Behind understood that distinction (and had a budget), they might have turned out something watchable instead of grindingly dull, achingly sincere shlock.
They start from an amazing sci-fi premise, one with its roots in a relatively recent theological development in a certain populist wing of Evangelical Protestantism. The idea is that the Bible foretells a seven-year period called the Tribulation, in which the world will be overtaken by war and pestilence, and ruled by a one-world government headed by the Antichrist. On the cusp of the Tribulation (the theory goes), all born-again Christians will instantly disappear, taken to heaven to be spared the seven years of persecution and suffering, which will culminate in the Second Coming of Christ.
Even if you don't believe a word, you have to admit it's a pretty compelling vision. Given the catechetical illiteracy of the times, people eat this stuff up with a spoon. Hal Lindsey, author of the runaway 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, built a lucrative career as an "expert" in the field of pop eschatology, despite the fact that his interpretations of Biblical prophecy didn't work out (being an Evangelical prophecy guru means never having to say you were wrong). Excitable TV evangelists and Left Behind advisers Jack and Rexella Van Impe have milked the crackpot cash cow of Biblical prophecy for all their professional lives, finding prophetic significance behind the headlines (if the European Union announces restrictions on the export of goat cheese, Jack will show you where Ezekiel prophesied this as a sign of the End). Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have made a mint from an extremely popular series of Tribulation-set novels, the first of which was Left Behind.
Aside from the literary merits of the books, there's no question that the Bible prophets and their pop interpreters offer an imaginative writer or filmmaker a spectacular trove of material.
If you knew what you were doing, you could make a hell of a movie from it (no pun intended). Or if you didn't, you could make Left Behind.
The story begins in the Israeli desert, where allegedly swashbuckling TV correspondent Buck Williams (Kirk Cameron, who looks too dewy and fragile to cover spring break for MTV News, much less Armageddon) is meeting with Chaim Rosenzweig (Colin Fox), an Israeli scientist whose miracle discovery could feed the whole world. Suddenly the bright afternoon sky fills with computer-generated smudges and the sound of attacking fighter aircraft. Though Israel is a tiny country, it takes the jets hours, apparently, to reach their targets; the Buckster sees the Russian MiGs falling out of the pitch-black night sky, the victims of Yahweh's invisible marksmen.
Soon, we're aboard a jetliner piloted by Rayford Steele (Brad Johnson), a heathen who is having trouble with his marriage because his wife has become born-again. During the flight, the Rapture strikes, taking away a number of his passengers and sending Capt. Steele into a personal crisis (he gets home to find his church-lady wife and devout son gone), and, inasmuch as millions of people, including world leaders, have disappeared, plunging the world into chaos.
Or so we're told: The budget is so paltry on this production that a handful of extras have to stand in for crazed mobs. A couple of wrecked cars and discombobulated garbage cans stand in for the fragmenting of civilization. Indeed, most of the "action," such as it is in this film, occurs in indoor settings — living rooms, churches, and offices. The whole world is convulsing with the birth pangs of the Apocalypse, and we're stuck on a suburban staircase with the newly converted Capt. Steele witnessing to his faithless daughter. Some thriller. Imagine "Tora! Tora! Tora!" as depicted from the perspective of the sorting room at the Honolulu post office.
Meanwhile, a slithery Eurostud named Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie), perhaps the only naturally blond Romanian on the planet, takes over the United Nations, and starts throwing his Antichrist weight around. Like the dainty Cameron, poor Currie is far too young to have been cast in such a weighty role. Imagine: The Great Beast, 666, the Satanic counterfeit of Jesus Christ, has all the gravitas of a college-student waiter at the Outback Steakhouse. World domination, the martyrdom of millions, the establishment of a Satanic dynasty, and the final Armageddon? Fine, mister — but first, bring me my damn Blooming Onion.
"I've got to get to New York and find some answers!" says Jimmy Olsen — I mean, Buck, in a line typical of the film's comic-book dialogue. When he does, Buck is rather improbably pulled into the evil orbit of Carpathia, who has concocted a world-takeover plan so preposterous, nonsensical and lamely staged as to be virtually unparodyable (Stand down, Dr. Evil!). Lucky Buck meets his Maker — in the born-again sense — in a U.N. loo, and is thus protected from Carpathia's Discount Darth Vader powers of mind control. Good thing, too, because there are several more Left Behind series novels available for filming, and at some point, that meddling kid's going to have to join forces with Moose and Squirrel to put a stop to the Fearless Leader's nefarious doings (which include, if memory serves, building a Bennigan's on the Temple Mount).
"The next seven years are going to be the worst that mankind has ever seen," Buck says at the end. And the next seven Left Behind movies too, one guesses. Clearly the video sales of this movie show utter lack of quality is not an impediment to big sales in the Christian ghetto.
At the end of the video, Cameron, a born-again Christian in real life, appears to make a personal pitch to the audience, asking them to spread the word about the movie so that the February 2 theatrical opening will "send a wake-up call to Hollywood." And you think: Who are these people kidding? They have yet to learn the difference between art, even explicitly Christian art, and propaganda. Good intentions are no substitute for craftsmanship. Having your heart in the right place does not count for anything if your head doesn't know how to tell a story, if your hand can't write good dialogue, if your tongue can't speak lines convincingly, and your eye doesn't know where to aim the camera.
In his final line, Buck says, "I don't claim to know all the answers, but for now, faith is enough." If only that were true when it came to moviemaking, alas, the woebegone Left Behind would be a masterpiece instead of testimony to calamitous feebleness in the faith-based arts.
Warning
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, bloating, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. It:
--contributes to the "greenhouse effect.
--may cause severe burns.
--contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
--accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
--may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
--has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Contamination Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions! Significant quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the substance has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
--as an industrial solvent and coolant.
--in nuclear power plants.
--in the production of styrofoam.
--as a fire retardant.
--in many forms of cruel animal research.
--in the distribution of pesticides. (Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.)
--as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this chemical compound due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." Worse, military organizations--- the Navy is the worst offender--- are developing weapons based on DHMO. Other branches of the military receive tons the substance through a highly sophisticated distribution network that's hidden underground, away from public scrutiny. Many military facilities store large quantities of DHMO for later use!
It's Not Too Late! Act NOW to prevent further contamination. Find out more about this dangerous chemical. What you don't know can hurt you and others throughout the world.
February 6, 2001
Lovely picture, but not mine.
February 5, 2001
Enjoy yourself at Fark.
February 4, 2001
An end to mediocrity. I present you with 21 great men to get your heart pumping. These are the 21 active racing cyclists with the greatest career wins at the end of the 2000 racing season. [3 are now retired, indicated with an asterisk*]
This is based on information in VeloNews
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