Have you been looking around Transcendental Floss trying to figure out what everything means? Maybe you’ve been thinking to yourself, “What the heck IS Floss Aid, anyway? Some kind of charity concert for dental hygiene?”

Well then, this is the page for you. Here you’ll find descriptions of all our regular features.

• Archives
• Cascadian Links
• Circle of Blog
• Comments
• Contributors
• ‘Dental Features
• Floss Aid
• Flosslights
• Home
• Navigation Menu
• Pacific Northwest
• Permalinks
• Recent Comments
• Search
• the Blog

Home

Our Home page is your portal to the optimal in cerebral hygiene. Click on the “Home” link in the Navigation menu atop our left sidebar, or almost anywhere else in our header, and you’ll always be taken Home. The left and right sidebars are static and you can always leap to anywhere on our site, or to sites elsewhere on the web that we recommend, using the links located there. The center column on the Home page is our weblog, updated regularly, displaying posts chronologically, newest always at the top. At the bottom of the Home page you’ll find a Previous button, which will take you further back in time for preceding posts, and once you leave the Home page, you will always find Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of each page to help you navigate.

the Blog

Each individual entry in the weblog is commonly referred to as a “post”. Posts at Transcendental Floss will always indicate first who the author is, and then what Archive category or categories each post will be stored in. (See description of Archives below.) At the bottom of each post are several important links…

Permalinks

Say you are a blogger and you want to link to one of our posts. Well, you wouldn’t want to just link to our Home page, because, since we update our blog regularly, by the time one of your readers clicks on the link you provided, the post you are wanting them to see might have been bumped down the page, causing your readers the trouble of having to scroll down to look for it. So, if you want to link to a specific post, click on either the post title or the small link labeled “Permalink” at the bottom of the post, then copy the URL from the Address field of your browser.

Comments

This is the open forum feature of most weblogs, and here at Transcendental Floss we strongly encourage our readers to submit comments about what we write, to read the comments of others, and to join the discussion. Just click on the Comments link at the bottom of each post, and from there it’s very easy to read the comments and submit your own.

Navigation menu

Atop our left sidebar, this is a list of shortcuts to information about the site, as well as to our Archives.

Search

Search for Transcendental Floss posts containing the keywords of your choice.

Recent Comments

This is a log of recent comments left by our readers, including the occasional comment from our writers. If you like to keep track of ongoing discussions, this is the first place you will want to look when you arrive.

‘Dental Features

These are links to archives of posts in recurring series. Just browse around. You’ll get the idea.

Flosslights

Simply a ‘Best Of’ compilation of older posts.

Pacific Northwest

Since, we’re very nearly the best from the Pacific Northwest, with writers from Portland, Oregon, Seattle & Bellingham, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we’ve archived posts here that refer in some way to our cities and our region.

Contributors

Curious to know more about us, the writers? Just click on the names and you can read a brief bio, followed by a link to all the posts by that particular contributor.

Archives

Here at Transcendental Floss we pride ourselves on the wide variety of subjects we write about. While politics might seem to dominate, don’t blame us, blame those bozos in the other Washington! Or, if you aren’t interested in politics, simply click on your favorite subjects to read posts on topics more to your liking.

Cascadian Links

Not a complete list, but a list nonetheless of independent media sources in the Pacific Northwest.

Circle of Blog

Our little blogosphere of friends and associates.

Floss Aid

Music, film, and book recommendations by Transcendental Floss editor and contributing writer Gonzo. We are an Amazon Associate, so if you click on the items and actually buy them from Amazon, we get a microscopic commission. At the bottom of this section, is a link to the Floss Aid Archives for past recommendations.

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