random thought of the moment:
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
— , letter to the Newport synagogue in 1790
February 17th, 2006 by Funky Dung
Has anyone else noticed that the volume of comments went up drastically after the recent renovations? Who are you people and what have you done with my readers? 
Seriously, though, keep it up, folks! Intelligent conversation does a mind good. 
Funky Dung
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I've always liked your site; the template adjustments make it even easier to read. Keep up the good work.
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Posted 18 Feb 2006 at 1:11 am ¶Apparently, presentation does matter, though, for all my former comments on your site design, none of them ever kept me away.
That said, when I switched to Wordpress last year, my comments also started to jump (from an average of about two or three per week to four or five — go figure).
Or maybe it's just that you can't keep quality hidden forever (in your case, not necessarily in mine).
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Posted 18 Feb 2006 at 6:59 am ¶The comments certainly have gone up. I think it has more to do with the quality of the site, but what were the changes that you made, because the appearence is better.
BTW, I did make the post about Librivox.org that we discussed. You can see it on my blog.
Jim
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Posted 19 Feb 2006 at 4:04 pm ¶am always amazed to find something new and really useful on the internet, and how that changes how we can entertain ourselves. This find is one people should know about. Recently I came across librivox.org which is a volunteer collaborative project to make audio recordings of books in the public domain. access to these recordings is free. They read from texts of books in the public domain from another great website http://www.gutenberg.org/ which has already put 2,000,000 ebooks on line and 17,000 of those are available free. Anyway, back to librivox, some of the recordings are by single readers and some are collaborative efforts with multiple readers. Quality can vary, but some of it is excellent. I was able to contribute a chapter of one of my favorite books, the soon to be completed "Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. If you haven't read (or now listened) to the original story you are in for a real treat. It will amaze you what happens to Jimminy Cricket in Chapter 4. (Alright, just to wet your appetitte this isn't like the Disney version.)
Actually, the Gutenberg site has a few recordings of its own. As one who really likes to listen to audio books, but looks for things other than best sellers, this was an exciting find. If there are any other such free audio sites out there, I would like to hear about them.
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Posted 19 Feb 2006 at 4:13 pm ¶Thanks for the info. Sorry about not posting about it here. I got distracted by other things.
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