Dancing Banana

Yea, verily do I tell ye, it is indeed Peanut Butter Jelly Time. It’s a large Flash file. Hope you have broadband.

(Via strikeslip.org. Note that in my own naivete, I may be missing certain esoteric cultural connotations associated with a dancing banana.)

Semi-Pelagian Catechism

I was helped to my salvation in Christ by a “Four Spiritual Laws” tract myself, but this is pretty darn funny anyway. (Those not in the Reformed know, the Q&A format is based partly on Calvin’s “Instruction…”, example here.)

1. Q: What is the chief end of each individual Christian?
A: Each individual Christian’s chief end is to get saved. This is the first and great commandment.

2. Q: And what is the second great commandment?
A: The second, which is like unto it, is to get as many others saved as he can.

Heh heh.

IE5+ and box widths

I cannot understand why Internet Explorer insists on inconsistently adding 1-2px width to any CSS box elements which contain long stretches of italicized text, making precise alignment and layout impossible where italics appear. Box hacks don’t always work, and the fact that the problem even needs hacks is frustration all by itself. This is beyond sensibility or sanity. It’s just plain stupid.

Mozilla doesn’t do these things to me. Mozilla cares for me. Mozilla gives me a stable shoulder to lean on in my CSS layout woes. Mozilla loves me.

Another suicide bombing.

Another suicide bombing. Go for it, Palestinian liberators. Now everyone wants to give you a sovereign state now, don’t they? When will fanatical extremists — on both sides — learn that bombings, wars, invasions, and assassinations are bad things?

De Quiros – It can be done

“It can be done.” De Quiros looks at Marikina, and sees what a miraculous transformation can take place when Filipinos apply themselves locally. I haven’t been to Marikina for years, and I remember it being rather seedy back then. Now, from here on the other side of the ocean, I regret not having seen how it has changed. But if Marikina can do it, so can the rest of the country, which provides some small glimmer of hope.

shuffle()

It turns out that PHP has a shuffle() function, too, which will help me make a random (rather than alphabetical) blog menu. Thanks again to Rich for yet another code snip.

Eleven indexes down, forty to go.