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Screen capture: Windows 7 running under VMWare. I really like VMWare . I’ve installed Windows 7 Beta into a virtual machine. A virtual machine is an operating system running within a software computer. The computer is no computer. It’s all rather zen.

Remembering my grandmother. In the summer she would give us kids iced tea in colorful aluminum glasses. The metal tumblers were super ice cold with condensation on the outside. The icy tumbler was better than the iced tea! My sister always like the pink one. I think I’ll send her a set for Mother’s Day.

I’ve been using the Alexa toolbar for several years because of the extra site information it provides. Click the picture to download your own copy. PLUS they finally got with the program and made it Firefox-compatible . Enjoy!

More blog-fodder from Yahoo! Answers. I think we can all agree that consistently objectifying women is not just wrong, it is dysfunctional. By objectifying I mean that the viewer isn’t concerned with the woman’s needs and desires but only with his own. This lack of empathy, **when taken to extremes**, is the hallmark of a sociopath or a narcissistic personality. In Muslim cultures this objectification is so ubiquitous that the women must wear burqas to protect themselves from being attacked. Displaying the female form, the clerics claim, incites sexual excitement in men and invites rape. The United States actually has a great deal more censorship than most European countries. It started with the Comstock Laws, laws that were intended to oppress women by denying them healthcare information. In Europe, casual nudity is unremarkable and nobody is inappropriately aroused by it, while in the U.S. a little too much neck or leg on TV provokes a great outcry. If I’m under...

Email to a Fundamentalist who obsesses on what he claims is a religion that “espouses rejoicing.” Your religion also espouses killing members of other religions as part of its teachings. That makes you a danger to many members of this list. I have never understood why people have to have “faith.” Is it because their religion causes a rift with the higher self? What, no more epiphanies? No more divine revelations? No more burning bushes? That’s ok, you can still have faith. I prefer to believe in the sunset in Pacific Grove, California; a trip down the Wading River in the pine barrens of New Jersey; the view from a boat on Loch Ness; driving up into the sharp red mountains in Arizona. There is no imaginary playmate in my head trying to claim my feelings at those times. The awe, the sense of something bigger than yourself? The earth is a big beautiful place, and that feeling means you are at the very edge of becoming part of it. Can’t have any of that P...

Top Office Pranks. This is good, a series of pictures of what folks do to co-workers who are away on vacation. My favorite is the sprouts in the keyboard, a nice “welcome home” for the nature-lover in the office. I’m reminded of what the entire office did to DH before we were dating. Moths in the cedar pencil holder, a phone list with the phone numbers removed, drawers reversed on the desk. The drawers weren’t just moved, the slides were moved so that the file drawer was on the other side. As he explained it, he didn’t get that the drawers were reversed. He perceived it as a vague uneasiness, a sense that something was wrong but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. You feel that way after a four-week vacation, right? Everything on the cork board was photocopied and the photocopies placed up on the board. His new diploma was reduced to about 1.5×1.5 inches. All the implements in his pencil holder were rubber-banded together so that when...