Archive | December, 2008

WP-Cumulus Plugin

WP-Cumulus takes your Wordpress tags and/or categories and renders them in a 3D style animated cloud. I use over 100 tags on my blog so the default settings were a huge mess initially. Luckily, the WP-Cumulus developer included a well thought out and well documented Settings page for the plugin.

Marriage and the Bible

Tomorrow, the December 8th issue of Newsweek magazine, hits the streets with a lead story on exactly what the Bible has to say about marriage in general, and gay marriage in specific. The three page article looks at both the Old and New Testaments pays special attention to the views that Jesus expressed on the institute of marriage.

AARP Foundation seeks Bilingual Volunteers

AARP Tax-Aide is seeking volunteers who are bilingual in English/Spanish to support the increasing number of Spanish-speaking taxpayers who are seeking assistance preparing and filing their tax returns.

Anxiety and Stress Linked to an Inability to Suppress Memory

“These data suggest that the mechanism for memory suppression is dysfunctional in patients with stress-related disorders primarily because of an alteration of the prefrontal cortex,” Dr. Agarwal said. “These patients often complain of poor memory, which might in part be attributed to this altered circuitry,” she added.