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Hover overs for blogs

9. February 2004 | Category My Websites

Ran into a neat little tool at overLIB, for which rules can be found here. (Note the hover-over the word here?)

More example Add’l features

[Listening to: Sarah Vaughan – Moon River – Trav’lin’ Light (2:51)]
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Smiling: To fake or not

9. February 2004 | Category Personal

Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. One possible explanation for this is that it may be easier for people to get along if they don’t always know what others are really feeling.

Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain.

Fake smiles can be performed at will, because the brain signals that create them come from the conscious part of the brain and prompt the zygomaticus major muscles in the cheeks to contract. These are the muscles that pull the corners of the mouth outwards.

Genuine smiles, on the other hand, are generated by the unconscious brain, so are automatic. When people feel pleasure, signals pass through the part of the brain that processes emotion. As well as making the mouth muscles move, the muscles that raise the cheeks – the orbicularis oculi and the pars orbitalis – also contract, making the eyes crease up, and the eyebrows dip slightly.

Lines around the eyes do sometimes appear in intense fake smiles, and the cheeks may bunch up, making it look as if the eyes are contracting and the smile is genuine. But there are a few key signs that distinguish these smiles from real ones. For example, when a smile is genuine, the eye cover fold – the fleshy part of the eye between the eyebrow and the eyelid – moves downwards and the end of the eyebrows dip slightly.

Source: BBK Science

[Listening to: Lucinda Williams – Out Of Touch – (5:30)]
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This craze is taking off

9. February 2004 | Category My Websites

Finally convinced Mr. Vogel to try his hand at webpage construction and Movabletype blogs. He seems to enjoy it and probably knows more about the fun stuff happening behind the scenes anyway. So without further ado, his webpage and his weblog.

[Listening to: The Hustle – Van McCoy – Pure Disco, Vol. 2 (4:39)]
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Russ Davis Fisasco

1. February 2004 | Category Personal

Update: Feb 1, 2004: No apology from Russ Davis, they only threw money at the problem for all our troubles. SO AVOID THESE SUCKERS WITH GREAT CAUTION!!!


I am writing in regards to a purchase my mother made on the 21st of November, 2003 at Cashwise Foods of New Ulm,Mn. She proceded to purchase a bag of your No. 1 Red ‘RDW’ Potatoes from the grocery chain. Upon bringing them home and unpacking her shopping bags she was made immediately aware of a foreign object which appeared in the forementioned bag of potatoes. This foreign object was immediately brought to her attention as it lacerated her skin of pinky finger. This object, upon further inspection, appeared to be a jack-knife, which was locked in an open position, thus piercing the side of the bag and protuding out enough to puncture her skin.

We were immediately horrified at finding such an object and scared of the possiblities of where the knife had been before creating an open flesh wound to one of your customers. How does a knife, a sharp metal object, that is extremely dangerous end up in a bag of your potatoes that goes out to consumers? Do you not have a screening/safety process in place to prevent such hazards from ever reaching the customer?

We are requesting that someone of appreciable stature in your company respond personally and promptly to this situation and what steps are being taken in regards to the future of not only us as your customers, but the whole of the consumer public that could still be in peril do to the saftey breach such an object should warrant. We have photos and eye witnesses to collabrate this and to verify that indeed that knife had been in the bag.

We hope to hear an immediate and respectful report into this situation without delay.

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