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Just a few more entries from Wikipedia

Hard to tear myself away from the Wikipedia. from the article about Zoroaster (lifted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica and full of its distinct opinionated voice), a link to the favorite psychedelic drug of the Aryan Gods, Soma:

The god is the plant and the drink; there is no difference. The plant
is the god and the drink is the god and the plant is the drink — they
are all three the same.

And following the association Zoroaster – Magi, I reached a List of names for the Biblical nameless.

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More Yazdis and Zoroastrianism

Wikipedia on the Yazidi(s) and on Zoroastrianism.

Apparently, Freddie Mercury was a Zoroastrian.
Also, Wikipedia links to this good site on Zoroastrianism, which has a detailed list of Zoroastrian angels and something about the Zoroastrian vision of the end of the world.

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Mooffie’s workaround: RTL Mail

HebMailPack, aka "Mooffie’s workaround", lets you easily change the direction of e-mail in Mozilla from a context menu, as described in bug 119857.

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Islamic Sects

A Brief Guide to Islamic Sects gives a moslem prespective on some of the more exotic Islamic heresies, such as the Yazdis:

The ‘Peacock Angel’ is their symbol for a fallen angel Malik Taus, who is their euphemism for evil or the devil, who they fear and seek to appease. According them evil is part of divinity as is good. The Peacock Angel is used in their festivals where they carry out strange and very secret rituals. They also believe that evil is found in lettuce, and are very careful around lettuces.

Other sects mentioned include Hafez Assad’s Alawis and the Druze, who are reviled for being members of the "ZOF" (Zionist Occupation Force). Yep, when this site says "fair and balanced", it uses the term in the FOX news sense. Except that the bias is Sunni Moslem.

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Leo

Leo is ancther ou@liner, Inspiredby MORE (Frontier/Radio’s forefather). However, the big difference between Leon and other outliner programs I ran across in the past is that it’s quite easy to understand what it’s good for.
I think that the reason for this is that the guy who wrote Leo has been working on it since 1996, and has rewrote it 4 times (the current version is in Python and uses the Tk toolkit), and has used it continously, so he actually knows what it’s good for, and can explain it easily: It lets you use outlines for literate programming and project management.
[ link from Ian Oeschger ].