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This is a map of Leawood, Kansas, showing the Kansas/Missouri state line. It's a pretty town with creeks and a lake.

People often wonder why JavaScripts don't work if they are inside a table.

Well, they won't. What you must do is not put the < SCRIPT > tag inside any < TD > tag, but put it somewhere before the < TD > tag; then you should "document.write()" the < TD > tag through the closing < /TD > tag! Some people even "document.write()" the whole, entire table.

Who said that!?

Ultimately, some people will find the gag over there rude and offensive rather than funny. It is an example of office humour, which, I think, should excuse it from really scrupulous criticism.

When people visit your office, they welcome a certain amount of vulgarity, as a token of your institute's "jes' plain folks" posture, and they will therefore buy your product or agree to terms or whatever it is you're trying to confuse them about, just to avoid seeming like a namby-pamby fussbudget. When they see this manly poster, they may even be impressed by the raffish, devil-may-care business style it suggests. "This is the sort of company [or Provincial government department] that puts its money where its mouth is," they will think. "Of course I'll sign. Who but an old lady would give it a second thought?"


Icons, or whatever.

I would like to know who made up these tiny pictures that you see everywhere. Who was the first to compose the "" picture, usually taken to mean "file"? You will notice it differs appreciably different from "", even without the up-arrow. The file folder in the second picture is a bit worn and stained, as if it has contained lots of different work and has accompanied its master to many meetings. The previous one is brand spark-nail new, just the thing for a few receipts and stick-it notes.

I don't think these little pictures should be called "icons", because most people know icons as religious paintings. I suspect this usage is just mindless showing-off by the sort of people who used to read Carl Jung: "Figuratively speaking, ... um, um, when we say that an image is iconic— um ..."


Pictures of Places.
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These are a few pictures which are explained if the item is clicked. There are quite a few lesser-known but intriguing places to consider.
The bar below is for the Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg; it will open in a new window.
This is the Southwest German Library Group. They offer service in English, a "digital library", and something called "distance loans"—perhaps some form of document delivery or what used to be called "Interlibrary Loans".

People talk about history without admitting what it really is, a bludgeon with which to beat one's real and potential idealogical enemies into submission. The more sophisticated the approach to history, the more efficient it becomes as a weapon. The rude, heavy stick of a few centuries ago has been successively redesigned into the ever more versatile and discreet forerunners of the rubber truncheon which we use today. As with all weapons, of course, many improvements in its design are the result of discoveries in other fields. In fact, hardly any new development in thought remains long untried for possible applications to the technology of the bludgeon. Some would even argue that not a single discipline has failed to cough up some contribution. Unless you're figuring out how to trounce somebody, the reasoning goes, what's the point? Huh?

Sometimes you just can't come up with the correct Greek word or expression. Consult this dictionary:
Quite a few of the on-line dictionaries one finds are rather disappointing. Either they don't work, or their database is very small.
Or what if you're stuck for the mot juste in Basque? It could happen.

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