Have an account with White Wolf's site?

If you have an online account with White Wolf, the maker of popular role playing games like Vampire and Werewolf, your user name, e-mail address, and encrypted password may be known, as their site was cracked. If the password you used there is a password you use elsewhere, you should probably change it.

I Would not Use this for Evil Purposes...

Well, ok, maybe I would be tempted. Ok, ok, I would use it: the Bluescreen (of Death) screensaver. I take no responsibility whatsoever for how any of you use it.

Is Belief in God Contributing to Society's Dysfunctions?

Source of discussion: Study says belief in God may contribute to society's dysfunctions

Boy, where do I start with this one. First of all, I have to agree that it is a big leap to get to that conclusion. I am also more likely to blame religions, rather than just a belief in God, for society's dysfunctions. I can only imagine how many people that go to church believe something in their hearts to be right and then have the church say that it is wrong. That causes inner conflict and stress that can lead to these dysfunctions. I had this inner conflict based on a disagreement of what I and the church believed while I was in high school - I ended up leaving the church and following my own private spirituality. But it goes beyond this. It is who religions and people believe God to be. Religions and people get so locked in on who God is, they limit who God is, and those ideas do not evolve like many other things in the world - physics, for example. So maybe it would be possible that all problems in the world are a spiritual problem? Look at how much religion and God are in every aspect of our lives.

The AIM Worm and the Turing Test

I guess this Fark.com headline answers the question I had about the AIM worm passing the Turing test: "New AIM virus may pass the Turing test, but only because the average AIM user is incoherent enough to fail it." :D

AIM Worm "Chats" with Intended Victims

Most of you have probably already heard about the worm hitting AIM that chats with the victim they try to infect, but am I the only one that wonders how badly it will fail against the Turing Test?

A World Without Limbo - Not the Dance

With Hell already denied as an actual place and now with the possibility of suspending limbo, wouldn't that only leave Heaven for people to go to?

And if they just change what happens, how can you trust that everything else they say is correct?

I Hate Internet Explorer

I've been working on a webpage that implements the horizontal drop down menu found on A List Apart. I finally got things to my liking in Firefox, so I tried it out on Internet Explorer (IE). The menu looked fine, but would not expand out. I commented out HTML and PHP code that I had within the page, limiting it to just the menu, and it still wouldn't work in IE, but was still working in Firefox. I went back to the original page where I had copied the HTML that A List Apart used and it worked fine in both browsers. I was going nuts trying to figure out what was wrong. With another glance at my HTML, I finally noticed that I had forgotten to include the javascript file needed for this to work in IE. IE needs javascript in this case because of pathetic CSS support. Firefox is able to do all of this based on CSS alone.

Then I had to play around to get IE to show my unordered lists as lists. I finally got it working, but man, what a pain.