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A fine demonstration by Eric Raymond, on Jihad.
When you post ‘truths’ that are merely your interpretation of a religious book, it is fair game to quote the book and back your statements. It could be argued the same things about good old Bible, but then you’d see people running in lines quoting the books like crazy, telling you it’s all about interpretation and context. The same problem lies within the motives of Al Qaeda: they are Koranic if you interpret Koran the way they do, which fortunately isn’t how most of the mulsim world does today.
Moreover, while the view of a westerner on Koran could be seen as objective, I wonder when those Koran-bashing writers will actually interview an Imam to get how today’s muslims see the Jihad. Or are they afraid the Imam will convert them by the sword ?

Fast forward to the third in that serie (link), we can read the primary threat of terrorism comes from Arabs and middle-easterners between the ages of fifteen and forty. Timothy Mac Veigh, you can rest peacefully: they already forgot there were white american terrorists.
And funnier, Apologists for mainstream Islam are systematically lying to us about Islamic doctrine in order to shield terrorists who they know are acting in strict accordance with that doctrine. This sounds like I am shielding terrorists, and I’ll dare make a parallel between this train of thought and the thought that Corsican people live under the law of omertà when they say they don’t have anything to do with terrorists. (I’m giggling at the thought that some readers not only won’t know what I’m talking about, but may very well think I support Corsican terrorists.)

‘The problem with the French,’ Bush confided to Blair, ‘is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.’

Le problÚme avec les américains, c’est qu’ils n’ont pas de mot pour ‘idiot’…

Google! DayPop! And you, the spambot looking for personal info ! This is my blogchalk: French & English, France, Corte, Bastia, Michel, Male, 21-25!

I couldn’t really decide between french & english, since I’d like to do both languages on this blog even though I hardly find anything to type in french.

Join us in the blogChalking !

…and they just came up with another miracle: The Unbrowsable Website ™, yet another fine product from BT.
Will they patent “navigation by similar little circles that all seem the say the same thing yet bring you different content” ?
Here’s a slogan for you: BT, taking Mystery Meat Navigation to a whole new level.

(source: Simon Willison)

I go long lengths without designing anything, and then one day I get a little inspiration. I hope you like what I came up with.

The sidebar is originally a navigation bar from a Webmonkey tutorial (thanks go to Mister Sgurz 2002 for showing this nav bar in one of his projects), and it fails in Opera because Opera is severely Javascript-impaired.
The photo on the top is from DeviantArt, it’s a stock photo from skilled Paul-Henri S.

The title ‘tidakada’ is a transparent PNG, that works perfectly in Mozilla-based browsers, Opera 6, IE5 Mac, and any browser than handles alpha transparency.
To make it work in IE 5.5+, there’s a trick I cam up with, that involves DirectX and IE’s filter: CSS attributes:

<div class=”headertitle” style=”filter:progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader( src=’stock-header4-title.png’ ); z-index:3″>

<img src=’stock-header4-title.png’ alt=’tidak ada’ style=”filter:Alpha(opacity=0)” />

</div>

(note: had to put a space between progid: and DXImageTransform, remove it if you want to use the code)
The bold code is what Windows IE5.5+ uses, that is ignored by other browsers. So what does it do ? It makes you fill the div background with the alpha-transparent PNG thanks to a DirectX filter, and doesn’t display the IMG tag because it’s set to opacity=0.
You may find that trick useful if you want to use alpha-transparent PNG images in Windows IE, but it’s a bit ugly and cumbersome as a hack. At least it does the job that MS developers forgot to do…

The playlist is powered by BlogAmp, and the blog is (of course) powered by b2.
And that’s pretty much all there is to say about it, I had much fun setting everything up.

Some senators think techno music is a synonym for ‘exploitation of the american youth’. Or that any young person dancing to ‘loud, pounding dance music’ is inclined to purchase drugs.
And that, of course, these shortcut-thoughts make it worth proposing a bill, the RAVE Act (’Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstacy’). Said bill would put you in jail just because you organised an event that features people dancing on loud, pounding dance music, whether it’s proven anyone actually dealt drugs during the event, or not.
(source: Kuro5hin)
This is making an interesting equality: techno=drugs.

I’m eagerly waiting for the next bills: country=beer, reggae=marijuana, linkinpark=scatology, and so on !

“L’attaque des requins tueurs.”
“Le monstre du lac.”

Soirée “J’ai peur de l’eau” sur M6 ?