History hopefully won't repeat itself: read The Anti-Miscegenation Amendment.

I know my children will look back at Bush's anti-gay marriage stance and see it in the same light that we now see Rep. Seaborn Roddenberry's 1911 stance against interracial marriage.

(via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

I like this resolution (I've been following it for years):

This shall be my resolution: I will no longer recommend any PC or help anyone who wants to run Windows. ... Anyone who wants to play games gets a console. Anyone who wants to buy a new machine will get a Mac. If your PC with Windows breaks, I am not interested.

Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 - 2004

They finally pulled the plug. Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos.

I'm sorry to see Webmonkey go; I probably wouldn't be where I am now without all that I learned about web development from Webmonkey's early days. I owe an awful lot to Thau's Javascript tutorials alone. I hope Terra Lycos at least keeps the Monkey alive as a reference/archive site.

Using stats to (try to) look on the bright side:

Alex Rodriguez is batting .212 vs. Boston pitchers -- and only .183 if you don't factor in Ramiro Mendoza (who's not starting for Boston this year)...and those numbers don't take Curt Schilling into consideration (since A-Rod has yet to face him).

I thought that The Onion was only good at predicting the future in politics, but looks like they're also pretty good at seeing the future in sports, too...

I'm trying not to let the A-Rod deal ("Yankees' greed knows no bounds") bother me. Yeah, it makes the Yankees that much better, but the 2004 Sox are still better than last year's team (which was quite good, if you remember).

Only time will tell if a Yankees team full of all-star players and all-star egos can work together. Spring training starts Friday...

I missed Tim Russert interviewing President Bush this weekend on "Meet the Press." If George gets re-elected this year, I'll be shocked. I can't believe the leader of the free world answers questions like this:

Russert: The Boston Globe and the Associated Press have gone through some of their records and said there's no evidence that you reported to duty in Alabama during the summer and fall of 1972.

President Bush: Yeah, they're -- they're just wrong. There may be no evidence, but I did report; otherwise, I wouldn't have been honorably discharged.

That's probably the same logic for going to war: "There may be no evidence of WMDs, but Saddam must've had them; otherwise we wouldn't have invaded Iraq."

Russert: But your base conservatives -- and listen to Rush Limbaugh, the Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, they're all saying you are the biggest spender in American history.

President Bush: Well, they're wrong.

You might argue that I'm taking these out of context, but you can read the transcript yourself...

Look at the big-ass wristband thing on this annoying guy. "Oh yeah! I was about to fall asleep, but my wristband shocked me awake! Thumbs up from me, big guy!"

And what the heck is the guy in the back supposed to be doing? "Your enthusiastic excitement over your wristband electric shocker is both mildly amusing and headache-inducing."

The larger version of the photo highlights the terrible Photoshop job. I can hear the "designer" now: "I'll just stick this giant watch-thing on this stock photo, and...perfect! Nobody can tell the difference!"

THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs.
Q: Mr. President, how are you?
THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some ribs.

This just doesn't seem real -- far too Onion-y. But it must've happened if it's on the White House website, right? But why even put this transcript on the web? Weird things continue to happen in Roswell, New Mexico...

Slouching toward Big Brother

Ben Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Since the events of Sept. 11 Americans have squandered an enormous amount of liberty, and we didn't even get any temporary safety in return.

For the web developers out there, here's a nice article on Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms. My favorite tip uses only a few lines of CSS to highlight the current form field (great for long forms).