I’ve been working on some simple JavaScript for driving tabs in order to replace some frustratingly inflexible code that seems quite selective in the browsers it chooses to work with. The new code is called Mook-Fu.

So far, Mook-Fu has been tested in:

• Safari 1.0 (KHTML)
• Mozilla (Mozilla 1.5, Firebird 0.7, Camino 0.7)
• MacIE 5.2.2
• WinIE 5.0
• Galleon
• Netscape 7.1
• Netscape Communicator 4.8 (does not work)

This is a story about how my meager code-slinging attempts got publicity on a blog known as nothing less than 90% Crud.

I was alerted via my information addiction that this character had put an DRMed iTunes Music Store AAC song up for sale on eBay, and was driven to check out his blog, if only because of its intriguing name. Lo and behold, as I scrolled through his recent posts, I found a quick mention of iCAR.

If one word were to sum up my emotions at that moment: woohoo!

Thanks for mentioning my project, George, even if it has been indirectly classified as nine-tenths catchpenny.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III	Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
Notoriously conservative talk show host. “Excellence in broadcasting.”	Fictional character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
New York City, broadcasting early 1980s to present.	Colonial Boston, Massachusetts circa 1642.
Idol of many American conservatives; exemplifies ideological rectitude.	Idol of the Puritan citizens of Boston; exemplifies theological rectitude.
Keeps hidden an addiction to painkillers that has caused him to lose nearly completely his hearing.	Commits adultery with a member of his congregation, causing psychological turmoil and torture that must be hidden from other colonists.
The secret was kept for five years or more.	The secret was kept for seven years.
Maintains an outer appearance of exemplification. Allegedly refers to “long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-sucking hippies”.	Maintains an outer appearance of exemplification, despite his less-than-sincere denouncements of his own character. “I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!”
Apparently becomes even more apt to criticize drug addicts while keeping his addiction a secret.	Attempts to justify his and others’ motivations for hiding sin from their peers.
(My own entirely amateur psychological opinion of Mr. Limbaugh is included in the following.) The characters justify their insincerity by using their experience with sin to lead a more effective crusade against it. This eventually breaks down and the secret is not carried to the grave.