If you have seen, used or liked the Iraq war cost JavaScript counter, than you might be interested in a bunch of other worldometers. These are not particularly accurate, but are fun to have on your website or to see an estimated forecast into the future.
Month: January 2005
European beers
Now that Cyprus is in the European Union and it becomes easier and faster to trade with other European countries, we might want to as well refresh our knowledge of European beers and places to get them from.
CSS: even and odd rules
I’ve been looking for this information for some time now. I knew that making striped tables and table with style columns was possible via CSS, but I never knew how, so I was handling it from within my scripts, which is really really ugly and complicated. Thanks a lot Bert Bos.
Criminal law blogs
If you are interested in criminal law, than you might want to visit this blog. Among other things, it maintains a list of blogs on the subject. As far as I understood, it is not that easy to get listed. Once has to provide interesting content, provide it often, and also must be doing it for some time before getting on the list. Quality resource.
Circumcision again
Aparently, the circumcision discussion that I mentioned the other day is still hot and kicking. There was an expert opinion posted here with a couple of links to medical resources. I’ve read it through and I have only a couple of points to bring out.
- Resources. I have checked both of the links provided by the expert. The reference to the The New England Journal of Medicine requires a subscription to access the article. Subscription is not free, and I am not yet convinced that I should spend any money on it. In any way, I have to dismiss it as it is not a “public enough” information and peer review that those articles recieve is questionable. The second article seems to be based on the first reference, so I don’t see much point in it either.
- Safe sex. The medical reason provided by the expert suggest that circumcised penis is less likely to harbour all sorts of infections. I have difficulty believing it considering safe sex in general, and condoms in particular. Circumcision deals with the part of the penis which is isolated by the condom. Medical studies of those people who practice sex with “multiple partners” without condoms do not concern me. Unless those are brain studies.
- “Just in case”. I find it very surprising to hear the phrase “Just in case” from a Ph.D. in medical science. I do not think that this is a good enough reason to do anything at all in general, and cutting pieces of skin off the penis in particular.
Resume: I am still far away from being convinced that the procedure is necessary.