Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds

I find this very scary, though I suppose I shouldn't be the least bit surprised.

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The importance of coffee to health

On the topic of decaf, and coffee in general:

Antioxidants are really important for your health, right? Well, guess what: “Americans get more of their antioxidants from coffee than any other dietary source,” said study leader Joe Vinson of the University of Scranton. “Nothing else comes close.”

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Naming on a global scale

Many systems on the Web use unique user IDs (or "nicknames" or "handles" or ...). Lots of them use email addresses as their IDs, but that's a relatively new practice, and many other systems use more traditionally-styled IDs. A good example is Yahoo!, where to use services such as Yahoo! Messenger one must first create a Yahoo! ID such as "johnsmith" or "iluvdarth". But this ID must not have already been taken by anyone else. This isn't too hard when the user base is small, but a Yahoo! ID has to be unique across all registered Yahoo! users around the world. And as I sometimes hear women say about men, "all the good ones are taken".

I've used "rohancat" for years, but have never been happy with it because it gains its uniqueness by using my first name (Rohan), which I regard as a cheap way out. I've since used "rocat" which, although better, is still based on my first name, and furthermore rocat.com is taken, by a British company that makes the ROCAT rowing catamaran. What I've long wanted is one of the cool names that some people have. Unique, meaning available in every place I might want to use it. Something I'll be happy with long term, which among other things requires that it include some amount of cleverness and also reflect some aspect of my personality. And no tricks like appending "3852" because I like the number 3852 (which I don't, but I hasten to add that I have nothing against it either).

Not long ago I finally thought of such a name. My posts in this blog will no longer be by rohancat, but by felicopter. A felicopter is a flying cat ("fel" as in "feline", etc., from the Latin "felis"); I'm a longtime cat lover. I hope to find someone who can create the accompanying logo: a domestic cat in the air, head lower than hindquarters, with tail spinning as a rotor.

I've claimed felicopter the Yahoo ID (and accompanying email address), the gmail address, felicopter.com, the AOL/AIM screen name, the Sympatico email address, and probably other things that I can't think of at the moment. Someone else seems to have taken the Hotmail address, though.

I'm amazed that nobody else did this first.

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Comment from felicopter: Those are wings, not rotors. Also, I want the rotor to be the cat's own tail; no add-ons. Cats are very nicely shaped as they are, I think.

Back online

Recovered our auspicious domain name from a domain farmer. Paid a few more dollars than renewal would have, and ended up with a different and unchosen registrar. But we're back up.

Enjoy your morning coffee.