Archive for October, 2004
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11 Oct 2004
There have been 4 million downloads of the Firefox 1.0 Preview Release in less than a month. Asa, the Firefox project manager, said that roughly half of the downloads came from Internet Explorer agent strings; in other words, first-time downloaders!
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11 Oct 2004
Rumors of a Pink Floyd Reunion, including Roger Waters. I'm not holding my breath, but I sure would do anything for a ticket.
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10 Oct 2004
Engadget is one of my newest daily links. They post several things a day about new cellphones, PDAs, hiptops, laptops, and other kinds of neat gadget-y hardware. This article about a new 7-inch Onepad webpad looks like it came straight out of my dreams. Although I would have wiped off the LCD first.
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8 Oct 2004
Improv is only one step removed from theater dorks in my book (not a judgement, just a fact). But this story made my day: Improv Everywhere at Virgin Megastore. Via cockeyed.
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8 Oct 2004
Detailed statistical election poll analysis. Why dead-even polls mean that Bush will be buried on November 2. I won't buy it until the polls are closed, but it's very well reasoned and extremely well informed. Via Nomad.
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8 Oct 2004
When the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling that upheld the rights of artists to sample without permission, they opened up a big can of metaphorical Pandora's worms.
3 Notes and Runnin is the fruit of those worms, in the most literal sense of the phrase. Using the tiny sample in question, some artists have managed to make some completely unrecognizable sounds.
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7 Oct 2004
The RNC fear-phrase video (Quicktime). Hypnotizing. (via)
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6 Oct 2004
This just in:
Tomorrow at 11 am PST [I think they mean PDT, which is 2pm EDT], the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for purchase. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately.
This news, prices (bronze $50, silver $60, gold $90), and details available.
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6 Oct 2004
Now you, too, can forget Poland with this new You Forgot Poland Bumper Sticker!
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6 Oct 2004
I come up with ideas for Firefox extensions on an almost daily basis. I'm going to have to learn XUL eventually. This list is shorter than it should be right now, because I've never written down these ideas before. Look for this list to expand during the day as I remember my good ideas.
WebDAV-like bookmarks synchronizer. Update: Download BookmarksFTP. Create a free 5MB Sharemation account. Setup BookmarksFTP to use HTTP method with host "www.sharemation.com" and path "/username/whateveryouwant.xml". Damn slick.- Personalized menus. I hate, hate, hate them, but it'd be nice for people who can't (or won't) manage their bookmarks list. Also, adding a "in my bookmarks" choice to the search field would be nice for these people, too.
- "Copy link location" in the right-click context menu for bookmarks.
View Source in New Tab.- Among many other features, Tabbrowser Extensions does this. A smaller, less imposing extension, with just this one feature, would sure be nice, though.