Fallout Shelter

MS Windows Vista -- focus follows mouse

This works:

"Start" -> "Control Panel" -> "Ease of Access Center" -> "Make the mouse easier to use" -> Check the "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse" box under "Make it easier to switch between windows".

This will also raise the window with the focus move, and there's a delay between moving the mouse pointer and having the raise/switch.  One can change those too by editing the registry directly.  But if you happen to move the pointer over the desktop, focus will stay in the previous window.  For more information:  An X-Mouse - Windows Follow Mouse feature for Vista and "focus" follows mouse -- possible with Vista?? - ltwally. 

If you're using Win XP, I gather you can use TweakUI from PowerToys as noted elsewhere.  If I get a WinXP machine I'll probably check that out.  :) 

Woo-hoo!

How to bask in the benevolent cathode rays without football this weekend

Super Bowl counterprogramming: Your best bets

... and yes, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

"Thank you very much, Chevy. 

"Hi.

"What's all this fuss I hear about a stimulus package?  I'm here tonight to protest against big stimulus packages.  You even see intelligent women on TV prattling on about how big it should be.  And the men, well of course they all want it to be bigger, but you'd think at least some of the ladies would be smarter about this thing!  Even the schoolkids these days know it's not just the size of the ship, but the motion of the ocean!  So will everyone please stop talking about this big stimulus package or that HUGE stimulus package....

"What, you don't get it?  You think just because a woman is over 40 doesn't mean her juices don't flow?  What's the matter with you?  And pretty soon we'll be talking about another damn Presidential Erection again....  Oh, oh....  [fans herself]

"Oh, I'm sorry, I must have gotten carried away.  Never mind."

[Edit:  "I know it’s been a tough week, little Obamaites. You’ve been feeling ... unstimulated."]

FB minutia

The Facebook "Shite Gifts for Academics" app currently has 129 "gifts" to be given.  Hm. Seems like a lot.

For those of you who keep up with such things...

... almost all my hair is gone. 

For my mathematician friends III

Algebraic Surfaces. 

I assume the names aren't formal. 

FAILBlog WIN

FAILBlog decided to make up for all those pictures of guys nutting themselves on lampposts by putting up footage of the US Air Flight 1459 crash.  Cool, or I guess I should say WIN!  :)

Patrick McGoohan, RIP

Patrick McGoohan, who played in about a billion things other than The Prisoner, died yesterday in southern California. 

I'd had no idea he was actually born a US citizen. 

Rest in peace, you old bastard. If I could cause this post to appear in Albertus (ok, "Village") -- on everyone's web browser in your honor, I probably would. 

Edit -- other posts (if you posted about this, send me your link):

Be seeing you
I Will Skip the Obvious Joke

I miss teh buddehs

 Click for full-size buddehs.

"Understanding Gaza: A Teach-In on the Current Crisis"

From my friend Rann:

*Please forward widely*

Understanding Gaza

A Teach-In on the Current Crisis

Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fed Ex Global Education Center, UNC-CH

This program will try to make sense of events in Gaza by providing historical, legal and human contexts. Speakers will provide the background behind the news, and bring into focus the faces behind the headlines. Why is this war continuing? And what can we do to bring it to an end?

Speakers include:

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   Laila El-Haddad is a freelance journalist from Gaza. Her blog, "Raising Yousuf and Noor: Diary of a Palestinian Mother," explores the complex relationships between the personal and the political as she raises her children while negotiating displacement and occupation.
   http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/
   [a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com]

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   Rann Bar-On is an Israeli activist and graduate student at Duke University. He has worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Rann advocates for an end to the Occupation and resistance to militaristic Israeli government policies. He is especially interested in the Shministim - a group of Israeli high-school students who are imprisoned for daring to refuse to serve in Israel's occupying army.

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   Marty Rosenbluth: Formerly Amnesty International USA's Country Specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority, he is currently a human rights lawyer working with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham. Through his work with Amnesty, he documented violations by all parties to the conflict, including participating in Amnesty's fact-finding mission in northern Israel during the war between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006 where he documented Hezbullah attacks on Israeli civilians as well as meeting with Israeli officials to discuss IDF attacks on civilians in Southern Lebanon.

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   Dr. Sarah Shields: Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at UNC-CH, she is the author of Mosul before Iraq and teaches courses on the Arab-Israel conflict, Islamic civilization, the Modern Middle East.


Organized by UNC-CH Justice for Gaza


Co-Sponsors: Solidarity with Palestine through Education and Action, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions – USA, Jews for a Just Peace – NC, Progressive Faculty Network of UNC-CH, Muslim American Public Affairs Council, Balance and Accuracy in Journalism, Social and Economic Justice Minor UNC-CH, Coalition for Peace with Justice (CPWJ), WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom), Mothers 4 Peace



[pdf for flyer]