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Amazon index still broken: Sponge moves to #1
… and the number one Drum & Bass album is [drumroll] ‘Rotting Pinata‘. 
Not only is the index still broken after 4 months, but this album has moved to number 1.
How is this possible? I suspect tom-foolery and stupidity:
Has anyone else come across any strange amazon anomalies? Hit the comments.
I guess I’ll just keep getting my suggestions from bassdrive.
Truckosauris, parking lot destroyer.
Take one oversized truck, add in a 27″ lift and knobby tires. Now go get a latte.
I feel bad that 98% of these trucks will never be used off road. Sure, sometimes my cooky rallycar gets spotted running errands. But she’s seen more dirts roads then this baby will ever see.
Why not buy more gas, make more road noise, shop with the kids, and only drive to work.
Le’sigh…
2.2 kids squared
I’ve spent the last few nights reading ‘The universe in a nutshell’ by Stephen Hawking. It’s a ‘heavy’ bedtime book, but I digress. In one of the chapters, Hawking talks about the exponential population explosion that’s happened in the last 1000 years. He brings up his concern that;
By year 2600 the Earth’s population will be standing shoulder to shoulder and the amount of electricity we use would make the earth glow hot.
Now Hawking has been often compared to the likes of Einstein and Newton when it comes to his understanding of the universe. So, when he makes his concerns for the future of humankind known, it carries a little more weight in my mind then some greenhouse gas study picked up by the associated press.
But it seems that this idea may be wrong. This morning I caught an article by Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth catalog, that brings to light the U.N.’s data on population.
Human population is leveling off rapidly, even precipitously, in developed countries, with the rest of the world soon to follow. Most environmentalists still haven’t got the word. Worldwide, birthrates are in free fall. Around one-third of countries now have birthrates below replacement level (2.1 children per woman) and sinking. Nowhere does the downward trend show signs of leveling off.
He goes on to suggest embracing Nuclear power such as the same way we embraced clean automobiles. We need cars, lets make clean cars. We need power, let’s get the cleanest power per dollar. Check it out:
Environmental Heresies – By Stewart Brand
Kicking the ol’style sheets.
I finished moving Tine’s site to WordPress last night. I moved the data over from MT a while ago, and only now had a chance to sit down and whip up a template. The first one I did was for planetkris and the second was for rallynotes. As far as page complexity, rallynotes is a repeating background and two nested tables in HTML. 
I made Christine’s site a little more colorful and tweaked some other things.
Unlike MT, I have some idea of what WP is doing in the background. I can at any point, open up the PHP hood and tweak a few settings. All of the templates use the same CSS tags, so if I see something on a forum or another site I like, I can grab it and tweak it into my home.
I found a sweet as in free GNU CSS editor called JustStyle CSS Editor over at ucware.com. It shows all the CSS tags possible in a list, so you can quickly hunt down what you want to change, or remember the more obscure tags like ‘background-attachment’.
Side note – some of you may have seen that Matt from WordPress.org recently got pWn3d by Google for hosting hundreds of hidden indexed pages off of wordpress.org’s site. I still love WP and I’m still loyal – but I removed the default WP link off the bottom of all of my pages.
science geek shirt ++
Mitochondria are part of your cells and they make energy for your body. They are only inherited from your mom. *cough And their lineage can be traced back to one woman. Do they retain these memories? Probably not, but you you’ll get extra science geek credit for this one. The kids in the lab will love it!