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Think you know (even if just vaguely) what Kwanzaa is? Hmm. I had a moment of …enlightenment today, courtesy of a brief article from WND:

“People think it’s African, but it’s not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods (blacks) would be partying.”
- Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa, in a 1978 interview reprinted in the Washington Post

The Official Kwanzaa Website’s bio of Dr.Ron is here — and the Wikipedia entry for Dr. Ron is here. An interesting study of contrasts regarding the power of presentation (the MSM is far and away the master of this realm — witness the nightly news re:Iraq). More research is in order, to be sure — but “more research” is being left as an exercise to the reader, for now.

In the meantime, I’ll wait on some comment flame (assuming anyone actually reads this) :D

If you’ve never seen the movie Blade Runner, please, for your own sake go rent it as soon as possible. You are woefully unprepared for the coming world dominance by The Nerds, who will expect all of their subjects to have seen it.

If you have already seen it, then you must check this out: More Human than Human - A field guide for testing if the San Francisco mayoral candidates are human or not.

In case any of you are wondering what the “football experience” is like as an on-campus student at Georgia Tech, this ESPN article pretty much sums it up :)

(hat tip to Cayman)

…and to clarify — I did equal time in both camps: the football partiers and the nerdy “what-football-game?” studiers.

I got a Gmailaccount pretty soon after it went open beta. I tinkered with it some then, wowed at the coolness of good DHTML + Javascript, and thought about how coolio it would be to have Google-esque search features available for ones email — in addition to web-mail (available anywhere with a web connection) with 1 GB of space behind it.

For free.

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I have discovered today that one can get into the guts of Firefox by merely entering about:config into the URL bar (thanks to this post, discovered by me while browsing Planet Wordpress). As that post outlines, URL autocomplete can be enabled in Firefox. Cool :)

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