Saturday, November 11, 2006

Beware the SeaMonkey

Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.


I haven't touched it yet, but all are drawn naturally to that beautiful combination - Sea Monkey.





With tantizilizing shots and a logo such as this one it falls short (while not having used it or seen it used myself) only in that the logo looks more like a bird or a feather and does not resemble the elusive sea monkey.

Their general purpose is still clearcut:

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for corporate use.


Party on SeaMonkey, party on.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Dianetics

9 May 1950, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is out for the first time. An explosion of media and grass roots interest forms on the subject of DIANETICS.

Definition:

Dianetics as a word comes from the Greek dia, meaning “through” and nous, meaning “soul”, so is defined - “what the soul is doing to the body.”

Dianetics is itself a methodology which can assist in alleviating unwanted sensations and emotions, irrational fears and psychosomatic illnesses (these are illnesses caused or aggravated by mental stress). Dianetics is most accurately described as what the soul is doing to the body through the mind.


Dianetics was of such great interest that in 1950 the writer, L. Ron Hubbard, held a series of lectures at the Palace in Los Angeles, filling it to capacity. This was only bolsters the hundreds reading Dianetics from coast to coast in America.

Dianetics has since Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (DMSMH) grown tremendously in use and technology. Following DMSMH and the book preceding that The Original Thesis (also under the title, "The Dynamics of Life") books came out further developing dianetics including Science of Survival, Self Analysis, Advanced Procedures and Axioms and Handbook for Preclears. All of these written between 1950-51...

(to be continued)