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Are you shocked and horrified that a Pace University student has been charged with two felonies for allegedly desecrating a Koran? Want an eye-catching way to protest against this folly and injustice? Foehammer’s Anvil has a clever and politically incorrect “porcelain protest” that you can add to your website, blog, or forum:

Flush a Koran Smilie

What else can you do with this smilie? If you blog with WordPress, you can set up your blog post and blog comment editor to offer a menu of smilies and other user-selectable graphic goodies. If you want the menu to include Foehammer’s Flush a Koran Smilie, you’ll need a configurable plugin that you can populate with your own selection of small .gif files.

The easiest way to get a user-configurable smilie menu is to download and install the LMB^Box Smileys Plugin from the LMB^Box Plugins page. Other plugins are available at that site to help you finish customizing your blog editing menus.

Originally posted by mobile phone 8/3/07 5:45pm.

(Updated 11/6/07)
For a historical perspective on this issue, please see:

Dr. Andrew Bostom: Flush To Judgment?

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I just now visited The World According to Carl, which is another blog in the Hillbilly Ecosystem.

There I saw a post entitled 8 Things. It’s a blogging game, and the rules are as follows:

Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

Okay, here are eight random facts about 1389, the admin of this blog:

1. One of my few pleasant memories from elementary school was the Bell Labs series of science documentaries, including Our Mr. Sun.
2. I used to take care of the birds and snakes for a small zoo in Ohio.
3. I once worked on an IBM 1401 Autocoder conversion. My, that goes back a ways…and that wasn’t even my first programming job.
4. I once saw a tornado…from the inside. Not an experience I would care to repeat.
5. My maternal grandfather made his own beer during Prohibition.
6. My father drove a soft drink truck during the Depression.
7. My first computer was an IBM PC with two floppy drives, a green monochrome monitor, and an Epson dot-matrix printer, which cost me roughly five thousand dollars. To do graphics, I added a CGA board and used an RF modulator to route the results to an old black-and-white television set.
8. Many years ago, I lived and worked in downtown Chicago. At that time, I remember that there was a herd of stray cats living near the train tracks under the old U.S. Post Office building. I found out because I saw someone in an office building elevator who was bringing them food.

Now I have to find eight other bloggers to pass this along to. If you’re a blogger and you don’t have time to deal with this, I’ll understand; otherwise, I invite you to give it a try. This is an opportunity for us bloggers to get more acquainted with one another, and for the public to get to know us a little better.

If you are seeing this blog post now and you feel like joining in, consider yourself “tagged” by 1389!

Update #1: I did manage to send the tag out to eight other bloggers, but not all at the same time. Hardware problems intervened, and I can no longer recall everyone who was on the list. Oh, well…

Update #2: Here are some random links from the same chain, both before and after me:

• Alabama Improper
• Amazingly Enough
• Conoscete Chi
• Days of Future Passed
• Each Day is a Gift
• Harvey Olson at Bad Example
• I Am My Kids’ Mom
• Maranda Under Stress
• Right Truth
• Scott Allan

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The folks at twitterfeed.com are providing an automated service that captures your blog’s Atom or RSS output at regular intervals and posts up to 140 characters of each blog post to Twitter. You can post under your existing Twitter ID, or set up a new one for the blog. It’s free and in beta test status at this time.

For a ridiculous example of how this can work, see I Can Has Cheezburger, which is the twitterfeed-powered version of the infamous “LOL” bad-grammar cats macro-meme explosion that has been amusing (or irritating) everyone all over the “intertubes.”

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