But cosmetic neurology, as some call it, has risks. Ritalin, Adderall and other ADHD drugs can cause headaches, insomnia and loss of appetite. Provigil can make users nervous or anxious and bring on headaches, while beta blockers can cause drowsiness, fatigue and wheezing.
Martha J. Farah, a bioethicist who teaches undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, said she was beginning to detect resentment toward students who used the drugs from classmates who did not. She has wondered whether improving productivity through artificial means also might undermine the value of hard work.
[From Pumping up your brain with legal drugs — baltimoresun.com]
OH NO! I’m sure fear of headaches, insomnia and loss of appetite are going to dissuade people from taking ADHD drugs to improve their academic performance. *rolleyes*
Drummer Witold “Vitek” Kieltyka of the Polish extreme metal band DECAPITATED passed away in a Russian hospital from injuries sustained in a recent road collision. He was 23 years old.
[From BLABBERMOUTH.NET - DECAPITATED Drummer Dead At 23]
This is such a tragedy for the metal community. I just found out today, as I was abroad in Mongolia since August. It’s completely surreal reading the progressing news reports, first an accident… then surgery but recovering, then DEAD?! I don’t even know what to say. My heart is with the families, and of course COVAN who should know the entire world of metalheads are pulling for his recovery. I’m wearing my Decapitated shirt in the honor of these incredible men and musicians. I sent a few dollars to the fund as well, hopefully it’ll make this whole ordeal a little easier for everyone involved.
From the band:
Witold “Vitek” Kieltyka – our brother and dearest friend succumbed to head injuries sustained after a bad van accident while on tour in Russia. He was 23.
One of the youngest and most promising drummers in the genre, together with Decapitated he has consistently released albums both crushing and invigorating in their musicianship. Extremely talented – he has been involved in other side projects: Dies Irae, Panzer X.
He will be missed and can not be replaced. The metal scene will be much sorrier with his passing…
[From MySpace.com - DECAPITATED]
See their myspace site for more news and to support the families of both Vitek and vocalist Covan, (who is still in the hospital) through the Vitek and Covan Charity Fund.
Alright, since my previous post on this has become the #1 google hit for “Basketball ist Krieg”, I figured I’d post an updated one since all the links seem to be dead (and I might as well just host the images locally rather than leave things up to archive.org)
Alright, so as I dig through the archive.org archives, I’m finding other random materials which I figure I might as well host too, even if they’re around elsewhere. Not all of them are all that funny, and they may be offensive and/or obscene, but I’m hosting them (for now, maybe until I sort through them, and/or compile a list of my own from the ones that aren’t lame) just to make them available. This seems like it’ll become a slightly larger project than a mere blog post, and I’m not quite sure how I’m going to approach it yet (open directory? php?), but I’ll sort it out eventually. Stay tuned for more.
UPDATE: Allright it’s up now: http://writenothing.com/metal/
So, apparently Mike Huckabee wants to fix the constitution… so it lives up to his God’s standards. Right…
[From The Raw Story | Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in ‘God’s standards’]
… O_o
Prescription drug abuse is up, presumably since, “Everyone is stressed and everyone is self-medicating… Generation Rx is very insidious; kids are looking to medication for a sense of wellness and not to treat an ailment.”
[From The Fallbrook Village News :: Generation Rx: a new war against drugs]
Why does K2 come with the post content justified by default?
It looks crappy.
Though I guess if you want a sidebar on the right, having justified text is nice since you get a clean, uniform break between text and sidebar (rather than the jagged space created by left-justification). But I’d say it’s not worth the resulting mutilation of post content (that is, when justification is used). So I might try switching the sidebar over to the left side if I can find some time to play with it.
Justified text
Justified text is set flush with the left and right margins. Page layout programs use a hyphenation dictionary to check for and apply hyphenation at each line’s end and then adjust word spacing throughout the line. But even with sophisticated page layout software, justified text blocks often suffer from poor spacing and excessive hyphenation and require manual refinement. This level of control is not even a remote possibility on Web pages. The most recent browser versions (and CSS) support justified text, but it is achieved by crude adjustments to word spacing. Also, Web browsers are unlikely to offer automatic hyphenation any time soon, another “must” for properly justified text. For the foreseeable future, the legibility of your Web documents will suffer if you set your text in justified format.
[From TYPOGRAPHY: Alignment @ Web Style Guide 2.0]
So I wanted to be able to have a lightwidow open up on mouseover, but couldn’t find an easy way to do this, especially not without having to embed scripts in the page, which is a huge pain within a wordpress post (though I do have TextControl installed now, but still). Anyways, this implementation is as follows:
For a normal lightwindow link, you simply add class = "lightwindow" to the link tag. For a link to become mouseover friendly, add class = "lightwindow_over" instead.
There are a few changes that then must be made to the lightwindow.js file: Continue reading ‘Lightwindow Mod: Enabling OnMouseOver Activation’
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