The bookmarks file generated by Mozilla is busted. The other day, I tried to create an XHTML file to turn my bookmarks file into a CSS-powered cascading menu, but I ran into a problem: since bookmarks.html doesn't have closing tags for many of its elements, I couldn't get the CSS styles applied as desired. Mozilla--please...
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Here's my proposal for a phonetic spelling system for English.

1) The only time letters might be doubled is when a vowel sound is held out long, for example, the end of "Utah".

2) Many schwas are not represented by a letter--if there's really a vowel sound in there, we don't punt and call it...
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The NBA's homepage is busted. When you arrive, there's a humongous ad at the top of the page. If that were the only problem, I wouldn't be writing this (even though I'd still think it stinks), because I'd be able to scroll down to the content I wanted to see and be on my merry...
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English spelling is so busted, it sometimes amazes me that the language has been so successful. Take the letter "a" for example. Notice how it's pronounced differently in each of the following words:

At

About

Father

Aim

Okay, there's a rule for the last one: "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the...
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Rather than simply dropping the Hubble Space Telescope out of orbit and letting it burn up in the atmosphere, NASA should pull it into the the space shuttle's bay on its next flight, bring it back to earth, and sell it, piece by piece, on eBay!

Personal liberty is one of the great ideals upon which U.S. society is founded. Liberty of thought and belief are critical to the preservation of a free society. Freedom of expression and of the press are necessary to protection of them. But freedom of action must often be constrained to preserve a civil society. No...
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"It's all about the 'O'," the ad says. I've seen the ads a number of times, but Overstock.com still isn't the first thing that pops into my head. Instead, I think of Oprah's magazine and, probably because of the attractive woman who appears on screen with the big red "O", "ovulation". They're doing a great...
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The hardest problems to solve are those that are caused by unsolved problems. Thus, sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to address some other problem. Taking the time to find the root of a causal chain can be the difference between treating the cause and treating the symptoms.

Let's say you want...
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Feng Shui, the Chinese art of arranging furniture so that it directs the energy flow in a room, is all the rage these days. Politicians have long practiced a related art: Deng Shui (pronounced "dung shway")--the art of framing a discussion so that when the mud slinging begins ("mud" being a euphamism here...), the filth...
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You may have heard about something Google's toolbar has started doing lately that could alter the presentation of your webpages. It's called AutoLink, and it turns some text in web pages into links--for example, addresses, book ISBN numbers, etc. Many arguments, both for an against are being made regarding this feature. There are also two...
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