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Those of you using Firefox who haven’t played around with various available extensions ought to. My current favorite is the Ad-Blocking extension. You no longer need to look at ads of any kind. Really. It works. After you download and install the extension, you need to give it a list to work with. I suggest downloading this one. To install it, open adblock’s preferences, click options, and tell it to import that list.
Here’s an interesting article from Scientific American about just how utterly worthless Bush’s missile defense program really is. An astounding waste of $80 billion. When I think of what $80 billion could do for, say, education, I can’t help but cry.
Apparently, chocolate is good for you It’s better than codeine for coughs. A German insurance company is urging its clients to eat chocolate every day for its antioxidants. Studies suggest that chocolate can actually protect against tooth decay. Without sugar, of course. And contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t cause acne.
There’s an interesting article in today’s New York Times (free subscription required–and worth it) about John Kerry’s IQ: “People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can’t understand.” That’s okay; if a high IQ were the mark of a good president, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover would be at the top of the list. Michael Badnarik’s Libertarian run for president: He’s polling about the same as Nader. Why your vote doesn’t matter: But it actually does, just not in the way you might think it does. In the interest of equal time,…