#330 Gmail Hack -- Persistent.info has a free Greasemonkey extension that let's you color-code your labels. Simply install the extension in Firefox and log into your Gmail account. To specify a color, simply rename a label to "Labelname #color" (e.g. to make the label "Inbox" be red, use "Inbox #red" and to make the label "Misc." be a blue-ish color, use the Hex color code (i.e., "Misc #336699").
#331 IPod Hack -- Was going to the gym on your list of New Year's Resolutions? To make sure your doing the exercises right, load up the video IPod you got for Christmas with exercises videos from IPod Gym. The site offers over 80 different exercises (free weights, machines, core strength, and swiss ball) available to help you get your technique down -- all for free.
#332 Google School -- Google has a little known music search function that makes it easy to find an old album from your favorite artist, a half-remembered song lyric, or the latest review on new releases.
#333 Know Your Fallacies -- Incomplete comparison -- a misleading argument popular in advertising. For example, an advertisement might say "product X is better". This is an incomplete assertion, so can't be refuted. A complete assertion, such as "product X sells for a lower price than product Y" or "the new product X lasts longer than the old product X" could be tested and possibly refuted.
#334 Email App -- Pando is a small, standalone app that runs outsite of your browser and allows you to email any size file for free. (HT: LifeHacker)
#335 HowTo -- Keep your new computer spyware-free
#336 PowerPoint Hack -- Here’s a great but underused Powerpoint trick. While giving a slide show presentation, right-click.
In Windows, choose an annotation item from the Pointer Options submenu, such as Felt Tip Pen or Ballpoint Pen. Mac users, choose Pointer Options > Pen. You can write directly on the slides: underline words, draw a picture, whatever. To return to normal use, and move onto the next slide, select Arrow from the submenu. The Windows version of PowerPoint lets you save your annotations at the end. (HT: LifeHacker)
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CWA’s Women of the Year Concerned Women for America has put together their list of Evangelical Women of the Year 2005.
Is that the group that Phyllis Schafly is involved in? If so, it can't be that much of an honor to be on that list. They need to get rid of Phyllis Schafly from that organization. She's a nut, and a liar to boot, as this fisking of her comments and personal attacks on the judge in the Dover case show.
http://www.stcynic.com/blog/archives/2006/01/fisking_phyllis_schlaffly.php
Even if what she had said were true, its a pretty nasty piece of work for an Evangelical Christian to say or write. And if you think I'm being unfair or biased, you are correct. But shouldn't Evangelical Christian spokespersons be held to a higher level of truth and civil courtesy than their secular or other counterparts? Does Phyllis realize before she opens her mouth that she is in a real way speaking for Christ? Or does personal invective get covered under the "spiritual warfare" clause?
posted on 01.04.2006 12:45 PM2
Joe
Not to argue with your description of the incomplete comparison fallacy, but in reality you rarely see in in adversiting (at least as you've represented it) because of FTC regulations that any truth claim must be testable. Therefore, you'll rarely see "Brand X is the best ..." They'll need to cite some sort of test or survey to support that claim.
Rather, you'll see some variation on "No one is better than Brand X ..." If you think carefully about that, it's possible to believe that all other brands are just as good as Brand X, but none is actually better. Madison Avenue counts on Americans' sloppy thinking to equate that statement with "Brand X is the best ..." without actually have to say--and prove--so.
posted on 01.04.2006 12:53 PM3
I can't figure out how to install the gmail label colors script. How do you do it?
posted on 01.04.2006 2:27 PM