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My home page has a lot of columns – the less important ones are usually beyond the right edge of the page in a small screen. In Safari and Firefox that creates an unpleasant page
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My home page has a lot of columns – the less important ones are usually beyond the right edge of the page in a small screen. In Safari and Firefox that creates an unpleasant page
Continue readingOrigami artists have taken the field to new heights over the last few years. See some of the best of recent modern origami art here., along with links to more information about each artist. Additional
Continue readingGroboto, the best little 3D program that no one knows about, lets you grow machines like coral, animate organic forms, create a new world. Not only does Groboto allow you to create marvelous 3D creations,
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Continue readingOne of the more amazing characteristics of fish is their ability to learn by imitation. I’ve noticed imitative behaviors in all of my fish, including goldfish, parrot cichlids, convict cichlids, severums and oscars. Although they come out of the egg already knowing how to swim, how to eat, and how to hide, they add new behaviors as they grow.
Learning attitude: Parrot Cichlids
When young parrot cichlids are put in a tank by themselves, they will usually remain shy for weeks or months. They will hide behind anything they can. If there is nowhere else to hide, they will hover at the top corner of the tank tipping downward slightly, pretending to be part of the filter. However, if they are put into a tank with adult parrot cichlids who have no fear of humans, they get over their shyness very quickly! When we got one of our younger parrots, “Baby,” she immediately adopted the oldest parrot cichlid Winston (a female) as her “mother.” She would follow Winston around, and generally imitate everything she did, and as a result showed very little fear of us.
But most of our newly acquired parrot cichlids spend at least a day or two hiding, during which they peek out from a secure spot to observe what’s going on in the tank.
Continue readingCertain applications work poorly under SSL: the back button may not function, or users’ security settings may be such that they are constantly presented with various certificate errors. Suppose you have a web application which
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