Month: November 2006

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How to balance a quarter on a $20 bill, cause we all need to learn magic tricks for the holidays…

Redesign 2006

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I hope everyone has had a happy Thanksgiving, and one more thing you can be thankful about is that I’ve finally redesigned TruePravda from the ground up. My last full redesign was two years ago. I made a few gradual aesthetic improvements during that time, but nothing major. This design is the fourth incarnation of … Read more

The Nincompoop Awards

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For When Celebrities Open Their Mouths… Yes, it is a real word. There are so many nincompoop–worthy moments out there, somebody has to keep track of them. Here are this week’s contestants: Honorable mention: Scarlett Johansson Miss Johansson makes this week’s awards for her criticisms to the journal Cosmopolitan of President Bush. She remarked in … Read more

Ted Koppel’s most dangerous nation

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Last night’s Ted Koppel Discovery Channel special on Iran was both interesting and annoying. The former ABC Nightline host took a camera crew inside the charter member of the Axis of Evil, and produced the two-hour documentary, “Iran: the Most Dangerous Nation.” The annoying part, of course, was the oozing moral equivalence with which Koppel … Read more

Flushing the Commode-doors

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Vols 39, Commodores 10 After a one-year lapse, the annual tradition of vandalizing Vanderbilt continues. Intramural games are never better than in November. For a game I didn’t get to watch or listen to, the Tennessee-Vanderbilt certainly looked exciting from the ESPN gamecast perspective. Lots of orange lines and arrows moving back and forth. I … Read more

Pigged Out

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Vols 14, Razorbacks 31 Were I to graph the Volunteers 2006 season, the hills and valleys in the graph would warrant a 4-wheel drive to navigate. From looking like a well-oiled machine against Georgia, to being rendered completely ineffective by Arkansas tonight. Granted, Arkansas is hot right now, but it didn’t even appear that the … Read more

Why I’m not voting in this Tuesday’s election (it’s not what you think…)

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I’m not voting on Tuesday. Why am I sitting this one out? If you believe various media, pundits, and politicians, you might think that it’s because as an evangelical Christian, I’m disillusioned with the Republican party’s failure to deliver on a number of important issues. Therefore, I’m staying home from the polls this year. Or, … Read more

Cooked Cajun Style

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Vols 24, Tigers 28 Tough game against a gritty LSU team. The Vols lost this one the old fashioned way: they were outplayed. Do I think a healthy Erik Ainge would have made a difference? Yes. Do I think a healthy Ainge would have won the game? I doubt it. To add insult to injury, … Read more

Firefox 2.0’s Spelll Checkur

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I’ve been using Firefox 2.0 since its release a couple of weeks ago and I’m thrilled that it finally includes a spell checker for form fields. It’s the feature I’ve been lamenting the abscence of for a long time, and I’m glad to see its incloosion in a browser. Now my posts are certain to … Read more