Archive for August, 2004
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16 Aug 2004
I don't have Quicktime installed on my Linux machine, and unless you have crossover, you probably don't either. There's always mplayerplug-in, but I've never had good luck with that. Finally inspired by Mozilla bug 255704, I've made a bookmarklet that converts every OBJECT tag on a page into a link to the source. You can then right click and download it.
Just drag this link to your bookmark toolbar: Objects to links
Note: right now this doesn't work at the most useful location: Apple Trailers. They use some funky quicktime forwarding stuff. I'm working on a solution.
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13 Aug 2004
I love Wikipedia. It's a bit scary to think that all of their hosting is done in a single place, which is in the path of Hurricane Charley. Update, 08-16: Looks like they did fine, since Charley turned northeast away from the Tampa area.
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12 Aug 2004
I think I've settled on the hardware for my new computer. I need to sleep on it though.
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Motherboard:
MSI K8N Neo Platinum -
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ -
Memory:
Kingston
HyperX 512M PC3200 (Dual-channel, and CAS level 2) -
Video card:
Powercolor (ATI) Radeon 9600XT 128MB -
Also a new keyboard:
Ortek SKB-2200
I'll probably ask for a 74G Western Digital Raptor (10k SATA) hard drive for my birthday. The video card decision was extremely difficult, but it came down to the fact that the Radeon 9700s were $50 more expensive from any vendor with more than a 70% rating on Pricewatch. This way, maybe I won't feel so bad about upgrading to an X800 or something in a couple years.
Update, 08-13: Slept on it, ordered mobo, CPU, and better memory than I had originally considered (with free FarCry, and a $30 rebate) from ZipZoomFly. Update 2: Ordered video card and keyboard from Newegg.
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12 Aug 2004
Although it's not quite what I had in mind, Nomad will find these TV RSS feeds awfully close.
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11 Aug 2004
I'm posting this from "WebWarriorz" at the Brass Mill Center in Waterbury, CT. Ten minutes from my home, and a member of the Counter-Strike: Source Beta. Whee! (More to come)
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11 Aug 2004
Remember WEBoggle? The guy who made a mirror has ended up making tons of functionality improvements. It's apparently a lot faster on the backend, you can submit words that you think are missing from the dictionary, and it now supports two simultaneous games (one of which is 5x5 Big Boggle)! Check it out.
Update, 08-13: Holy hell. WEBoggle was posted to Metafilter today (for the second time, to be honest). It was flooded with about six thousand players. I wish it were still on my site, but it's nice to see comments like "This kicks ass. Best use of simple DHTML game I've seen."
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9 Aug 2004
Watching Season 3 of our Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Ghetto Box Set, I came across the episode Family Business. It's not an extremely notable episode (besides the old-Ferrengi-lady nudity), but it sticks out prominently in my mind (and not because of the nudity). It's the first time we meet freighter captain Kasidy Yates. I had known that Penny Johnson was in the series eventually, and I was dreading it. I could never trust Sherry Palmer. Never! The episode was over before I realized how great of an actress she really is. I didn't doubt her sincerity and utter likeableness in DS9 for a moment. It totally blew me away.
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9 Aug 2004
Remember when Google Answers debunked one of those stupid "So you think you know everything" emails? Well, Fark has considerately accumulated all of the useless and untrue facts in a single place! Yippee!
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6 Aug 2004
I found this a while ago, but it makes a good Friday-afternoon goof-off link. The Wooden Periodic Table Table. Inspired by an Oliver Sacks book — Uncle Tungsten — and later visited by the same (and likely the only) world-famous neurologist. Some highlights: His Sodium party (watch the videos), the radioactive Fiestaware bowl, and Flourine storage.
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5 Aug 2004
"If New York were its own country, its army, the New York City Police Department, would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea. Its GDP, $413.9 billion, would be the seventeenth largest, just behind the Russian Federation and just ahead of Switzerland. With more than 8 million residents, it would be more populous than Ireland, Switzerland, or New Zealand; roughly half the countries in the Middle East (including Israel); most of the former republics of the Soviet Union; and all the Scandinavian countries besides Sweden." Should New York City Secede?