Facts

Facts: Tea party members do not refer to themselves as teabaggers. Fox news is yellow journalism. Obama has raised taxes. Obama is 100% American. Obama has created onerous new government regulations. Obama is doing everything he can to make America a better place. CNN, NBC, Jon Stewart, and the NYTimes have lighter shades of yellow journalism.… read more “Facts”

htaccess Redirect Without Changing Address Bar URL

I had a problem: I wanted any URL that showed up after a certain directory to just pull from one file. So for example:

www.example.com/images/tree.jpg
www.example.com/images/2345.png
www.example.com/images/823947dfkasdf-dasdlkfjjk.html

All should point to:

www.example.com/image1.png

I found this excellent solution from jdMorgan at Webmasterworld:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^images /image1.png

Napoleon of Average Height

According to Wikipedia and some other articles I read, Napoleon was actually of average height (5’7” at the time) and not short like his popular reputation & 1908 psychologist Alfred Adler made him out to be.  He was thought to be short because of differences in the way French pouce and the British inch (French pouce was larger) and disparagements in the British press.

Social Capital

Every interaction you have with another person either gains or loses you social capital with that person.

For example, driving someone to the airport gains social capital. Having that person ride the bus while you drive to the same location costs you social capital.

Social capital can be converted into favors, appreciation, assistance, loans, love, and even real cash.… read more “Social Capital”