Efficiency
State of Da Frog
Posted by Mike
Fri, 11/10/2006 - 08:24
FrogStyle, as loyal readers will note, has been not so happening as of late.
Do you think that's going to change?
Well, not any time soon.
But it will change Some Day!
After FrogStyle changes servers (which will be soon), we are planning, at some point, to do a radical redesign.
You will go to the new look of FrogStyle and be amazed.
But you'll have to wait awhile.
Do you think that's going to change?
Well, not any time soon.
But it will change Some Day!
After FrogStyle changes servers (which will be soon), we are planning, at some point, to do a radical redesign.
You will go to the new look of FrogStyle and be amazed.
But you'll have to wait awhile.
How to Block Google from Logging Your Searches
Posted by Mike
Sun, 08/13/2006 - 08:08
Like AOL, Google logs all of your web searches through the use of an identifying cookie.
A brief tutorial has been written that explains how to block Google from identifying you via a cookie or IP.
The Raising Canes Club: A Fight Club for Seniors
Posted by Mike
Wed, 07/05/2006 - 07:39
"Grey on Top, with FIRE in the Heart?" asks Ted Truscott on his website, raisingcanes.net, as if in challenge.
He is a man with over 30 years of martial arts experience, a man who maintains that, if you can play tennis or if you can dance, you too can learn the use of the cane for self defence.
Ted is the founder of The Raising Canes Club, a club for seniors which offers training in a "legal and 'invisible' weapon". Those who pass the tests of this club learn "how to hit with power" and "the strikes with various parts of the cane".
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In Truscott's well-known essay "The Fighting Cane", he explains the strategic advantage of relying on "the invisible weapon":
Anti-Rape Condom
Posted by Mike
Fri, 06/23/2006 - 08:18
Rapex is a special type of condom designed to discourage and identify would-be rapists. The condom is worn inside a woman's vagina and is lined with an array of plastic "teeth" that cause the condom to attach to the rapist's penis.
The patented device was invented by Sonette Ehlers, a retired South African blood technician. She got the idea from a rape victim:
Good Times with Paxil
Posted by Mike
Wed, 06/21/2006 - 05:27
Slate has an interesting account of a writer who decided to try taking Paxil to counteract his shyness. Paxil advertisements have touted the drug as a way to overcome "social anxiety discorder" aka bashfulness.
Below are some snippets if you want the condensed version. If not, read the whole article.
Here are the snippets:
Woman sells DNA on Ebay
Posted by Malcolm
Mon, 06/05/2006 - 21:24
The Pigs and I
Posted by Malcolm
Sun, 06/04/2006 - 07:18
The cops put me in jail for no reason, so my friend, a web app developer, made an open source web site for the public to log complaints against the police: www.toserveandprotect.org.
Then we made this video, "The Pigs and I"
1) to have some fun,
2) to bring attention to injustices perpetuated by the police and
An Inconvenient Truth
Posted by Malcolm
Fri, 06/02/2006 - 20:54
Roger Ebert, a guy who is hardly known for political or activist agendas, has written a glowing, disturbing review of Al Gore/Davis Guggenheim's "An Inconvenient Truth":
PledgeBank: Altruism For the Lazy
Posted by Mike
Thu, 06/01/2006 - 08:26
Altruism isn't always an energizing thing. If you want to do something small, no problem: your own energy and resources will be sufficient. If you want to do something big, you face the task of having to drum up the energy and resources of others. Next thing you know these folks have "ideas of their own" and people will expect you to show up to things.
If You Don't Exercise Your Body Will Poison You
Posted by Mike
Wed, 05/31/2006 - 01:41
You think you can just hang around sucking up slabs of butter and watching reruns of Airwolf.
If you don't excercise your body will poison you:







