what is normal?

I absolutely hate MySpace. I never never ever never refuse to visit it. Refuse to utilize it as a ‘resource’ or ‘tool’ or anything of the sort. I hate the auto-loading music, the layout, the impossibility of finding what you’re looking for (what ARE you looking for on MySpace anyhow!). Still, someone forwarded in this link to talknormaltalknormal user, some band based in Brooklyn, and it’s impossible to pass up.

Some band. on MySpace. that’s all it is. talknormaltalknormal

over at Adult Swim you can watch all your favorite smart, humorous and potentially offensive cartoons, streamed straight from the studio using Adobe’s Flash player technology. Adult Swim have smartly coded their player to quickly enlarge and browse other videos without the need to refresh the page. However this blog is intrigued by the nomenclature used to describe the player’s functions: notably, when the player is originally engaged, it has a clickable button that will enlarge the player to ‘full screen’. And when in full screen, and you are ready to return to what you were originally presented with, you do not ‘exit full screen’, nor ‘zoom to original’, but rather click ‘normal screen’.

fullscreen will always be different, depending on the user’s screen ratio and size. But normalscreen is the same for all! Yay for homogeneity, yay for normalscreen!

(click above image for my actual fullscreen screengrab)

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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 27, 2001

Normal Trade Relations Treatment Executive Order
To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment to the Products of the People’s Republic of China
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

1. The United States and the People’s Republic of China (China) opened trade relations in 1980. Since that time, the products of China have received nondiscriminatory treatment pursuant to annual waivers of the requirements of section 402 of the Trade Act of 1974 (the “Trade Act”) (19 U.S.C. 2432). Trade between the United States and China has expanded significantly even though China has maintained restrictions on market access for U.S. exports and investment.

2. On November 15, 1999, the United States and China agreed on certain terms and conditions for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that when implemented will eliminate or greatly reduce the principal barriers to trade and investment in China.

3. On November 9, 2001, pursuant to section 101(b) of Public Law 106-286, 114 Stat. 881, I transmitted a report to the Congress certifying that the terms and conditions for the accession of China to the WTO are at least equivalent to those agreed between the United States and China on November 15, 1999. On November 10, 2001, the Ministerial Conference of the WTO approved the terms and conditions for China’s accession and invited China to become a member of the WTO. China has accepted these terms and conditions and became a WTO member on December 11, 2001.

4. Pursuant to section 101(a)(1) of Public Law 106-286, 114 Stat. 881, I hereby determine that chapter 1 of title IV of the Trade Act should no longer apply to China.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including but not limited to sections 101(a)(2) and 102(a) of Public Law 106-286, 114 Stat. 881, do hereby proclaim that:

(1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) shall be extended to the products of China; and

(2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of China shall be effective as of January 1, 2002.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH

[via whitehouse.gov]

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