• 2000 B.C.E. - Here, eat this root.
• 1000 C.E. - That root is heathen and evil. Here, say this prayer.
• 1850 C.E. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
• 1940 C.E. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
• 1985 C.E. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
• 2000 C.E. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.

Just kidding, don’t worry. That’s just the name of this awesome new video you should spend the next three minutes of your life watching:

That’s right, the long awaited Firefox 3, which I have previously encouraged you to download and install, comes out tomorrow. I’ll be sure to write up a formal review of it once I’ve really had the chance to use it. Can’t wait to play around with the new interface, new features, and enjoy the performance increases.

If you haven’t heard yet, the awesome folks over at Mozilla are attempting to set a Guinness world record for the number of software downloads in a single day. That day being the release of the highly anticipated Firefox 3.0. The absolute only thing you have to do is download Firefox 3.0 on the day of its release. The official release date has not yet been announced, but it will be soon. To find out more or get on the “Download Day” mailing list, swing by Spread Firefox and sign up!

Wasabi Sushi & Sake Lounge is the newest restaurant to open its doors in Brookfield, Wisconsin. I’ve driven by it several times while they were still getting everything ready, and had been hoping that we would get a good Sushi restaurant near us. This past tuesday, they finally opened up. We’ve eaten at a few different Sushi places of varying qualities and first impressions are always important if it’s a place I plan to go back to.

When you first walk in the doors at Wasabi, you will immediately notice the atmosphere perfectly fits the cuisine. It is very simply designed, but also very elegant and makes a great use of the space that they have. It is the type of atmosphere where you can feel comfortable in casual clothes, but fit in just as well in a suit and tie. Jessie and I were immediately seated in a very comfortable well-lit booth. The menu was very reasonably priced and we decided to start off with some Miso soup, which was among the best Miso soup I’ve had. After looking over the menu, we decided on calamari and vegetable tempura, a Philadelphia roll, and a Las Vegas roll. Shortly thereafter, we received all three dishes. I was immediately impressed by not only how tasty it looked, but also the effort put in to the presentation. It was as much art as it was food. Not only did it look incredibly appetizing, but it tasted just as good as it looked. After a fantastic dinner, we split some Green Tea ice cream that was a great finish to the meal.

If you like Japanese food or are interested in trying something new, I highly recommend Wasabi. It’s on Bluemound Road in Brookfield, WI just east of Moorland on the south side of the road.

Here’s the address and website:
Wasabi Sushi & Sake Lounge
15455 W. Bluemound Road
Brookfield, WI 53005

Most of the following McCain ad is garbage that you can ignore, but watch extremely closely at about the 25 second mark and try to identify the shirt that the woman shaking John McCain’s hand is wearing.

Did you catch it? If you did, you’re probably chuckling to yourself right now if not actually laughing out loud. If you didn’t, she’s wearing an Obama campaign shirt. Someone clearly wasn’t paying close enough attention when they put that commercial together. If this is the level of effort they are putting in to their campaign ads, I can’t wait to see what else we have to look forward to.

Still straining to see it? Here’s a freezeframe:

I’ve decided to start a new “feature” here, in which I will be announcing to the world (or at least the regular readers here) new words which I have come up with or have had a hand in inventing. My hope would be that someday some of these words are accepted in to the standard English language.

On to the first new word:

Smoretarded - adjective
One who is incapable of either creating or eating a smore without making a complete mess of themselves; It’s just a marshmallow, chocolate, and graham crackers, how are you so smoretarded?

The President is currently in Israel. In part, he is there to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel, but in part he is there to help along the Middle East peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. I have no issues with anyone visiting there for either of those reasons, but his true motivations behind the latter of the two reasons is nothing short of despicable. Everyone would like for there to be peace in Israel, but his motivation is quite different from most.

George W. Bush is poised to leave office in January 2009 as one of the worst United States Presidents in history, if not truly the worst. He, along with the help of his cronies (read: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, et al), has abolished many of the basic constitutional rights we take for granted, has led us in to an unjust quagmire of a war, helped lead oil prices to an all-time high, has greatly abused and extended executive power, has created a devastatingly huge national debt, is leading us in to a recession, and countless other atrocities, many of which should have earned him an impeachment (if only the congress had a spine).

Back on topic, if our President truly did care about establishing peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, he likely would have attempted to negotiate peace sooner than his absolute last year in office (of an eight-year term, none the less) and he probably would have visited Israel more than a total of two times. This is not an attempt on his part of establishing peace in the Middle East. It is an attempt at salvaging the shattered remains of his legacy and hoping he can be remembered for something other than the various failures I listed above. He is desperately hoping that real peace between the Israelis and Palestinians happens before he leaves office, so he can claim responsibility. Whatever the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize is, he deserves it.

Not too long ago, John McCain proposed a gas tax “holiday”. Essentially, the 18¢ federal gas tax will be lifted for a period of time to, in theory, save Americans money. The only problem with this is that most economists don’t think this will work. Decreased price will increase demand, thus raising the price of gas. That’s how capitalism works. Then, once the gas tax is over, it will end up higher than when it started. On top of that, if it does save the average American any money, it will only be about $25. Not much. So this isn’t really the best idea, but that’s what can be expected when it comes to Republicans and taxes.

What makes this all interesting is that now Hillary is following suit (insert pantsuit joke here). She has already taken campaign strategies straight out of the republican playbook, so why not borrow McCain’s tax proposals? I am failing to see how exactly she is the “more electable candidate”, as her supporters would like me to think, if she just copies what the Republican candidate proposes. What baffles me even more than her recent republican tendencies, is that fact that the media is acting as if she came up with it. The very second she opened her mouth in favor of McCain’s gas tax suspension, mainstream media somehow developed selective amnesia about who had actually proposed it and declared it Hillary’s Gas Tax Holiday.

Thankfully, Barack Obama has the chutzpah call a gas tax holiday exactly what it is, a “classic Washington gimmick”. Plenty of his opposition will come back and say he voted for a suspended gas tax in Illinois when he was a state senator. What’s his response to this? “I voted for it. Then six months later we took a look and consumers had not benefited at all. I learned from a mistake.” A politician who is willing to admit his mistakes and subsequently demonstrate he has learned from them by taking the risky step of opposing a tax cut (no matter how fool heartedly it may be) is exactly what this country needs in our next President.

If you don’t know anything about SEO, you can probably just skip this post because you won’t have any idea what I’m talking about. For those that do know a little something about SEO, you should already know the difference between nofollow links and dofollow links. The latter of those two is obviously the preferred type of backlink to help with your SERPs and PageRank. Wordpress, by default, makes commentors’ links nofollow. That, however, is long longer the case here. I have changed it so your name in comments is now dofollow. Let the link juice flow!