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
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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’
Finally, someone with the guts to say what we’ve all been thinking. If only our political commentators were as insightful as those who write on pizza…
This info has been out there since late last month, but it’s yet another reason why Mitt Romney may not have carried Iowa in the Republican caucus last night. The man must have alienated the pizza partisans in the Hawkeye State:
[From Slice: Did the Politics of Pizza Sink Romney’s Iowa Bid?]
And from the original article linked to from the above blog post:
I just can’t imagine the American people electing as president someone who does that to pizza. I’m not saying a president has to have a special knack for eating pizza - what you call “pizza talent” - but he or she has to respect the pizza, and look comfortable with it.
Intriguing. But I could never do it 
It all made perfect sense. Fix the words and you fix the thoughts. I’m not a negative person, but I wanted to cut out the commiserating most of us use for 30-40% of all conversation…
[From Real Mind Control: The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss]
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So, I first posted this article here, and linked to it from my writing blog. But then I changed my mind. So head over and read it there.