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Netiquette Lesson: Avoid the Hostile “you”
Maintaining polite discussion on Internet forums is often a difficult task. For forum participants, it requires a concerted effort to avoid confrontational language, exercise personal self-control, and accept anger from others calmly. Oh, is that all? :) To illustrate, I’ll give an example of my own poor behavior. Re: McCain Ad on Obama’s Sex Ed…
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HCCYBL
After I got off work Saturday morning, I helped the local basketball league (HCCYBL) get their website setup. Go check it out. It uses WordPress, makes updating much easier for the common person.
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Coffee Can universe
Frosty posted a weird video about folding space to reach the tenth dimension. Gopher wrote No offense, Frosty, but it’s a bunch of theoretical math with no practical application to reality. Then Frosty reveals the mad scientist waiting to come out. Frosty wrote I don’t know about that. I am trying to create my own…
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What project?
I think this is going to be a regular theme highlighting threads on Hoptownhall. Just in one day there were two good threads worth bringing out. Hoptownhall has a circle of people who are either active military now or were in the past. So much that HTH gained a dedicated military sub-forum. OODA starts a…
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Chinese protestors submit their paperwork. Disappear the next day. Duh!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/20/asia/protest.php Xinhua, the state news agency, reported that 77 people submitted protest applications, none of which were approved. Xinhua, quoting a Public Security spokesperson, said all but three applicants dropped their requests after their complaint was “properly addressed by relevant authorities or departments through consultations.” The last three applications were rejected as incomplete or violating…
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Ditto Ben Franklin
I have visited Ben Franklin also. Mom was intrigued that there would one less reason to make a trip to Wal-mart. Our most recent trip we went looking for a picture frame but left empty handed. Eventually, the store will have the ability to make custom frames. However, when the shop was putting the framing…
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WKDZ Podcast!
During November of 2007 I noticed that WKDZ Radio was posting mp3’s of their morning/afternoon news programs. I was disappointed though when none of the RSS feeds on the WKDZ Audio Rack were useful podcast feeds. I emailed the contact person for Audio Rack blog and the response was simply that posting the mp3’s was…
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Batman as a political analogy
There was a thread started on HoptownHall when “The Dark Knight” debuted in theaters. It stayed fairly on topic until Falstaff announced that Batman was actually George W. Bush. Needless to say the whole discussion swerved sharply into philosophical/political areas. Read on for more discussion/Batman spoilers.