Canadians sell milk in bags. I’m flabbergasted.

A lot of people like to talk about freedom. They like to hold it forth as an ideal, particularly in regards to topics like speech, association, religion, sexual preference, and so forth. Some even go so far as to criticize others for infringing upon their freedom of speech when they themselves are criticized. Recently, a spat between the likes of 7chan, Hal Turner, and some dude have brought the importance of the concept of liberty to the forefront of my thoughts.

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There’s a song on Sesame Street, which I watch several times a week with my son, that goes something like this:

One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn’t belong
Can you tell with thing is not like the others
By the time I finish this song?

I was reminded of this when I realized that an administrative function I added to Shimmie wasn’t working properly in Opera or Internet Explorer. I still use Firefox as my primary browser both at work and at home, so while this administrative widget was under development I used Firefox for testing and debugging purposes. The HTML involved was simple, with no CSS vagaries or complicated manipulations of the box model, so it shouldn’t have been necessary to rigorously pore through the myriad browser options.

How naive of me.
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