CSS magic

Earlier this week I was having trouble with a 3 column design I was working on. I learned my html in the bad old days of Windows 95 and tables, so it’s only been the last couple of years I’ve been learning css. I still have trouble from time to time, as many of you [...]

Out of the closet and into Time

I was doing some catch-up reading the other day, and leafed through the 13 March 2006 copy of Time Magazine. Just inside the front cover was a 2 page spread with this headline: “Depression isn’t the only symptom of bipolar disorder. It’s just the most obvious to you.” It’s an ad for the isitreallydepression.com website. [...]

Affordable insurance coming to Tennessee?

Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee on Monday unveiled a plan he called Cover Tennessee, to provide affordable and portable health insurance to more than 600,000 uninsured people in the state. From Chattanoogan.com: Cover Tennessee, which is a voluntary program, has three main components: CoverTN — This initiative, the heart of Cover Tennessee, is a partnership [...]

Putting your best face forward

It’s not what you know, or even who you know. It’s what you look like. That’s the perception of 11,130 members of Monster.com who responded to a poll on whether changing their appearance could improve their job prospects. From HR.BLR.com: Most Workers Say Plastic Surgery Would Help with Career More than half of workers say [...]

Other Voices

Other Voices is a cyber-anthology of English language poetry “that erases the boundaries of nations, ethnicities, religions, cultures, and age to bring you some of the world’s best poetry.” I’m proud to say our own Sherry Chandler is a part of it. Be sure to check out her poems, collected in a section of Volume [...]

Majestic

Light blogging will continue for a while as I frantically work on a new project. But in the meantime, enjoy this webcam of an eagle in its nest, complete with sound. While I have mixed feelings about this intrusion into wildlife habitat, the beauty of the eagle is something to behold.

Early warning

Argh – I’ve volunteered to host the 13th Carnival of Feminists, which will appear on April 19. Since I’m pretty low traffic here, I’m worried about getting enough submissions to fill the issue, so I’m giving you advance warning and asking for your help. If you’d be interested in writing something specifically for it, either [...]

Where is that?

From Token Games comes a cute little interactive map game asking you to match the names to the 50 US states. The map is a little hinky shapewise, and the targets for the tiny east coast states are small and hard to hit, but still it’s a great way to waste a couple of minutes. [...]

Sensual pleasures

When I’m racing or crashing or just plain having a bad day, I have a set of things that sooth me. Simple pleasures of the body are too often overlooked in favor of the intellectual or sexual. Indulging your senses is good for you; it doesn’t have to be reserved for special occasions. My favorites: [...]

A sane policy

Finally, a bill has been introduced to overturn the idiotic policy of denying funds to family planning services around the world. Read the full text of the resolution here. H.R.4736 Title: To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize assistance to provide contraceptives in developing countries in order to prevent unintended pregnancies, abortions, [...]

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