oh sweet irony
video of the net neutrality commercial
technology designed to make your life easier, from lexus
flesch-kincaid rules
firefox 2.0 - take 2
make the tabs get smaller before the tab bar scrolling kicks in:
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75turn off prefetching:
network.prefetch-next = false
inkling maintenance screen
firefox 2.0
two changes in about:config:
browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3this makes the tab close button show up on the far right of the tab bar (where it belongs)
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton = truehides the stupid ugly go button next to the address bar that serves no useful purpose
additionally i had to add the following, found here, to my userChrome.css:
/* Disable Container box for "List all Tabs" Button */ .tabs-alltabs-stack { display: none !important; }those changes got me back to the way firefox is supposed to look :)
so far it seems to be using somewhat less memory, and having spell check and session history live in the browser instead of via add-ons is definitely nice
net neutrality commercial flat out lies
my best analogy for net neutrality is that currently the internet is like 95 in delaware. you pay to get in, and you pay to get out, and what happens in between is out of your control. what the telcomm companies want to do is make you pay to get in, pay to drive more than 5 miles/hour while in the state, and then pay to get out as well. what's scary is that there's no way google's going to run a counter ad, so this is all "normal" people are going to hear about this.
what's funny is that the telcomms think that google needs their customers more than their customers need google. all it would take to break the telcomm's will would be google putting an announcement up on their site whenever one of those companies' customers hit their site. "your internet provider is forcing your access to google to be slower and less reliable than it was last week. contact their customer support here: 555-555-5555" and the call center would explode. i know that the internet, left to it's own devices, will keep this from happening. my concern is people like senator stevens getting involved with the telcomm's telling him that google is clogging the tubes. his analogy was a little off in the telcomm's eyes they probably thought it should have looked more like this:
the recording industry association of america or nambla
why didn't i think of this...
crazy egg
digg gets some work done
even when you're on your way to owning the world, you still have to do server maintenance sometimes.
search engine friendly urls
geraldo rivera you are a douchebag
microsoft loves making me cry...
parents television council, i hope your children read the shit i'm writing
I am writing today to express my concern about your recent sponsorship..... oh wait, no I'm not.
I'm writing to encourage you not to listen to an exceptionally annoying, exceptionally vocal, and exceptionally delusional minority of your customers, known as the Parents Television Council (PTC) and its members. You should not allow yourself to be fooled into the idea that any sane, normal, or educated member of your customer base believes any of the insanity that comes out of PTC representatives' mouths.
The PTC represents and incredibly small portion of the US population, yet according to the FCC's own statistics generates more than 99.9% of all complaints they receive in a given year. These PTC members believe that since they are too self-involved to control what their children watch on TV, the government should do it for them, and attempt to accomplish this by using their small membership to fraudulently create a massive volume of complaints. Yet no one forces them to have cable TV in their homes, to not use TV and cable box features to control what their children watch, or god forbid, supervise their own children and their TV viewing habits. Maybe if they weren't so busy sending millions of copies of emails and letters to people they'd have time to watch what their own children were viewing on TV.
I encourage you not to listen to these ignorant, lazy, self-absorbed, idiots, who claim to speak for the American population at large. I hope you will continue to sponsor Rescue Me, and every other show on the PTC top ten worst list (available here: http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/main.asp). As a 23 year old, college graduate, with a large amount of disposable income, I hope to continue to see your delightful adds during episodes of Rescue Me, Family Guy, and everything else the PTC hates. While you might lose one of the six idiots who believes what the PTC says, you'll certainly keep me as a continuing customer. I can also distinguish the difference between reality and TV, just like I can tell the difference between the real world and video games. When the PTC finally mature and develop a method of conversation besides whining, crying, and throwing temper tantrums, they can join the rest of us in reality.
The site then responded: Dear Matt Dragon,
Thank you for taking action on behalf of America's children and grandchildren. Your emails have been sent!
Well you're very welcome PTC, I look forward to meeting your socially disabled, sheltered, home schooled, afraid of the world, gun toting, psychopath children and grandchildren and enlightening them as to how increadibly screwed up their parents and grandparents were for believing in your cause.
jon stewart on senator stevens on the internets
it's official, the world is coming to an end
oh france, everything about you is a joke
technorati pings
it's like the civil war, but tastier
nsa supper kitty
single funniest thing i've seen in a long time, possibly ever
bling out your t-shirt collection
flash drive shows how full it is
new york times covers iraqi weapons prices
1. you can buy a hand grenade in iraq for less than it takes to fill your suv with gas in the us
2. ak-47s are so common in iraq they cost less than a glock handgun
3. the new york times is using weapons dealer interviews to quantify the fear that residents have in iraq, read the times tomorrow for an analysis of crack prices in a report on americans' happiness.
4. f*cking inflation always gets you
ohio proves it really is a red state at heart
things google just does right
warning symbols by dell
oh irony how i missed thee
striped raid....floppy drives
make snow your bitch...
internet identity tracking
the onion 4 bazillion, cheney 0, rice -1
when life gives you lemons, make t-shirts
cheney's got a gun
other good news in the president's week: one of those stories is dancing through little bushy's dreams while he sleeps... i'll leave you to decide which...
furthering bush's contribution to history, via google
muslims campagining to represent all that is sane and normal....
why send flowers when you can send these?
now that's my kinda tax
al gore 1, george w. bush 0
i'd like to introduce you to ratcop (refs against the city of pittsburgh)
if i was one for conspiracy theories i would just say that the league is trying to make it easier to move the team by keeping them from being as competitive as they could be. maybe the nhl should issue statements like the nfl did, of course they only commented that one of their two horribly blown calls against the steelers was wrong.(btw joey porter's comment after the game: "I know they wanted Indy to win this game; the whole world loves Peyton Manning. But come on, man, don't take the game away from us like that.", its great that someone said it, i hope they fine him, i'd chip in) so why would the nhl not condemn the poor calls against the pens? hidden motives perhaps?
now the one thing i can't understand is how many of these calls go against crosby, who the league has to realize is the best thing that has happened to them since gretzky if not since some crazy canadian guy took a bent tree branch and ran out onto a frozen pond. unless the league is upset that he went to the pens who they were trying to drain the life out of so they could relocate them. sure crosby has a temper and some of the calls against him are justified, but 90% of the penalties he takes he takes are plays where an opposition player doesn't get called on a blatant penalty and crosby retaliates. say what you will about not retaliating, if the refs did there jobs there would be no retaliation needed.
just for the record i don't really believe most of the conspiracy stuff that i am saying, but it's hard to explain a lot of this away.
oh and btw, the family guy where optimus prime is jewish, freaking awesome.