I just installed the updated 0.91 version of Firefox by Mozilla...
and while I was getting this latest release of a great browser replacement for Internet Explorer I stopped to think about how long it's been since I last saw a pop-up ad - a few months - ever since I installed Firefox 0.7 and turned the pop-ups off. The reason I am taking time to talk tech is that there are a new breed of virus bugs that IE has proven to be susceptible to. Security advisories and reports typically include preventive measures that computer users can take to avoid malicious Internet attacks, but one piece of advice is on the rise: Use a Web browser other than Microsoft's!
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Thanks to Jim Sullivan for pointing out a very simple Web site with a simply profound essay on GREED... http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/.
And a game...
Next time friends gather you can test them with the "Nuts Game" as site author, Julian Edney states, "in which you can watch greed in the person sitting next to you. Three people sit around a kitchen bowl. You, the fourth person, with a timer, start off placing ten small items in the bowl - quarters, dollar bills, or nuts. Tell the three players the goal is for each of them to get as many items as they can. Tell them one other thing before they start: every ten seconds (you have your watch ready) you will look in the bowl, and double the number of items remaining there, by replenishing from an outside source (a separate pile of quarters on the side)."
Julian Edney says, "You would think the players would figure out that if they all waited, and didn't take anything out of the bowl for a while, then the contents of the bowl would soon get very big, automatically doubling every ten seconds. Eventually they could each divide up a pot that had grown large. But in fact, sixty percent of these groups never make it to the first 10-second replenishment cycle."
And a game...
Next time friends gather you can test them with the "Nuts Game" as site author, Julian Edney states, "in which you can watch greed in the person sitting next to you. Three people sit around a kitchen bowl. You, the fourth person, with a timer, start off placing ten small items in the bowl - quarters, dollar bills, or nuts. Tell the three players the goal is for each of them to get as many items as they can. Tell them one other thing before they start: every ten seconds (you have your watch ready) you will look in the bowl, and double the number of items remaining there, by replenishing from an outside source (a separate pile of quarters on the side)."
Julian Edney says, "You would think the players would figure out that if they all waited, and didn't take anything out of the bowl for a while, then the contents of the bowl would soon get very big, automatically doubling every ten seconds. Eventually they could each divide up a pot that had grown large. But in fact, sixty percent of these groups never make it to the first 10-second replenishment cycle."
Monday, June 28, 2004
Despite his political leanings...
Dave Harden, manager of Sturgeon Bay's Cinema 6 deserves a big round of applause for making a tremendous effort to bring a copy of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" to Door County (even though he takes opposition to Moore's point of view). Thanks to Dave's persistence he secured one of a limited number of prints of the film for local screening, making it available here in Sturgeon Bay starting Friday, July 2. Show times are 1:30, 4:15, 7:00 and 9:15.
Dave Harden, manager of Sturgeon Bay's Cinema 6 deserves a big round of applause for making a tremendous effort to bring a copy of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" to Door County (even though he takes opposition to Moore's point of view). Thanks to Dave's persistence he secured one of a limited number of prints of the film for local screening, making it available here in Sturgeon Bay starting Friday, July 2. Show times are 1:30, 4:15, 7:00 and 9:15.
Sunday, June 27, 2004
If you need a break from reality surf over to the... Top Ten Tabloid Headlines
Every month Evanston's MAGBAG takes time to salute those journalists who write the great headlines in America's finest newspapers, the supermarket tabloids. Most of these headlines are drawn from the Weekly World News and the SUN. Here's the June winners:
10 STUNNING REAL REASON FOR IRAQ WAR REVEALED: U.S. BELIEVES SADDAM IS THE ANTICHRIST! — WWN
9 ENGLISH ARE WORLD'S MOST UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE, SAYS FRENCH STUDY — WWN
8 CONCRETE ENEMAS A BAD IDEA, DOCS WARN — WWN
7 GOTCHA! JEWELER INVENTS WEDDING RING THAT CHANGES COLOR IF YOU CHEAT! — WWN
6 Comet caused great Chicago fire — SUN
5 NEW BEACH PERIL: SQUIRREL FISH — WWN
4 MY TOILET ROLL HOLDER IS POSSESSED! — WWN
3 TERROR TOADS INVADING AMERICA'S TOILETS! — WWN
2 LOUSE FROM SADDAM'S BEARD WORTH MILLIONS — WWN
1 WARNING: SMOKING CAN TURN YOU GAY! — WWN
Click the link to see all of the monthly winners back to January, 1998 when they began their salute to the Top Ten Tabloid Headlines.
Every month Evanston's MAGBAG takes time to salute those journalists who write the great headlines in America's finest newspapers, the supermarket tabloids. Most of these headlines are drawn from the Weekly World News and the SUN. Here's the June winners:
10 STUNNING REAL REASON FOR IRAQ WAR REVEALED: U.S. BELIEVES SADDAM IS THE ANTICHRIST! — WWN
9 ENGLISH ARE WORLD'S MOST UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE, SAYS FRENCH STUDY — WWN
8 CONCRETE ENEMAS A BAD IDEA, DOCS WARN — WWN
7 GOTCHA! JEWELER INVENTS WEDDING RING THAT CHANGES COLOR IF YOU CHEAT! — WWN
6 Comet caused great Chicago fire — SUN
5 NEW BEACH PERIL: SQUIRREL FISH — WWN
4 MY TOILET ROLL HOLDER IS POSSESSED! — WWN
3 TERROR TOADS INVADING AMERICA'S TOILETS! — WWN
2 LOUSE FROM SADDAM'S BEARD WORTH MILLIONS — WWN
1 WARNING: SMOKING CAN TURN YOU GAY! — WWN
Click the link to see all of the monthly winners back to January, 1998 when they began their salute to the Top Ten Tabloid Headlines.
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