Here’s a variation of my theme which uses green on a light gray background.

I just made a final version of my theme. I may do other color variations.

Since the latest root updates, my news page is many times faster than it used to be. It used to take up to a minute to finish displaying from the time I hit refresh, but it now displays instantly. Thanks, Dave!

14181 ª January 26 1:12 AM. Mideast vs West. From a conservative-libertarian point of view, what’s wrong in the Muslim world, what caused 9-11, and how to fix it. Even if you don’t agree with the author’s conclusions (maybe especially if you don’t agree with the author’s conclusions) the piece is worth reading, as an exceptionally clear and forceful articulation of these ideas. Link found on Arts & Letters Daily. [MetaFilter]

Great article. Here’s a great comment:

A direct assault that could be simplified by noting that the separation of church and state is really the central issue that has made the West what it is today (recall the days of the ruler as also central religious authjority) and that has never truly taken place in most Muslim countries as yet, where Islam has a great hold over even the monarchs of say Saudi Arabia or the dictators of Syria, Pakistan et al.

When inflexible religious beliefs fly in the face of logic, we have things like abortion clinic bombings, book burnings, and Rev. Phelps’ hate site, as well as the events of 9-11.

[blueg3:~] mike% uptime
 7:54PM  up 60 days, 4 hrs, 2 users, load averages: 2.39, 2.11, 2.02

My G3 has been running for 60 days now! It’s sitting in the other room with the monitor switched off, running as my file server, a web server for testing, and my CVS server. I’m also running SETI\@Home on it.

I’m thinking of running Radio on that machine instead of my G4. Is anyone else running Radio on a machine other than their regular desktop system and accessing it only via a remote connection?

From MacFixit:

Comcast Gunning for NAT Users? Meanwhile, a posting on Slashdot states: “A co-worker of mine resigned today. His new job at Comcast: Hunting down ‘abusers’ of the service. More specifically, anyone using NAT to connect more than one computer to their cable modem to get Internet access… Comcast has an entire department dedicated to eradicating NAT users from their network.” There are numerous replies, mostly exploring the extent to which Comcast is even able to detect NAT use.

I doubt if they can detect whether someone is using a NAT device, such as a LinkSys router, as I’m using to connect my iBook, G3, and G4 to my DSL connection.

Separated at birth?

Here’s the Mozilla icon (flipped upside down) and Word X’s icon. Conicidence?

I downloaded & Installed Mozilla 0.9.7 this morning. I like it a lot better than Netscape 6.2.

I find Netscape 6 renders pages faster than any other browser (including IE 5.1), but the application itself feels so sluggish that it’s nearly unusable. Mozilla, on the other hand, feels fast & responsive (but not as fast as OmniWeb or IE) and renders just as fast as Netscape 6 (as it should, since they share the same rendering engine).

14162 ª January 25 11:22 AM. WA Lawmakers try to remove “repugnant” Theory of Evolution from schools . Yes, this is the 21st century, and yes – we in Washington State now have two bills, (Senate and House) before our congress that propose “All textbooks and curriculum that teach the theory of evolution shall be removed from the public schools forthwith and replaced with textbooks and curriculum that teach the self-evident truth of creation”.

I don’t know whether this is a legitimate effort to change the law, or a (hopefully) doomed effort to curry favor with conservative voters. [originally via fark] [MetaFilter]

I can’t believe people like this are still living in the dark ages. Sheesh!

Distribution of people named Cohen in the US from the 1990 census