random($foo)

Blatantly stolen from Andre:

thanks jaime

OK, it’s that time of the week again (for me to close out some browser windows).

• Dirty Dictionary – a compilation of double entendres and corresponding pictures.
• Linux is for Bitches – the corner image sums up the site pretty well.
• The Science of Boiling an Egg – not all that practical (the Learn2 tutorial is better if you actually need to learn to boil an egg), but fun physics
• BBC News: Einstein’s speed of gravity idea tested – this is being carried out Sunday.
• Mac OS X Interface Hall of Shame – Mozilla of course has an entry
• 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete – JZ preaches on.
• Tenebrae Quake – this is a modification to the original Quake source to allow stencil shadows and per-pixel lighting. They seem to be temporarily offline (/.’d twice no less). Here’s a mirror w/ screenshots
• Cockroaches serve as model for more natural robots – yay bambi
• SCSI Technology Primer – interestingly, doesn’t list SCA connectors.
• Can Poisoning Peer to Peer Networks Work? – muy interesante
• A Nation of Thieves? – Prince weighs in on the whole music industry thing. For those who can’t stand the transpositions, here’s a complete translated version on /.
• Digital Divide – the National Journal article is an excellent recap of the ongoing battle with coke-addled Hollywood.
• ArsTechnica Jaguar review – 14 pages of fun
• PBS Deletes Webpage From Arab-American Documentary – the Memory Hole has lots of other great supressed items
• These are some great answering machine greetings. I’m going to have to use some of them sometime

Oh, this Kid Koala video rocks.

TI announced new Wi-Fi chipsets due out in the 4th quarter that will use as little as 10 percent of the power required for current generation chips. Very cool stuff.

Japander.com is a growing archives of those oh-so-great Japanese commercials featuring western celebrity spokespeople.

Hmm… lucky students.

…a sophomore at Spalding High School. He said other male students said they wish that they, too, had had relations with Summers.

Due to the temporary dislocation of both my car and MP3 player, I’ve been digging through my CD collection for stuff to listen to while I’m in transit. One of the nice thing about having several hundred completely disorganized albums is that just digging around and finding stuff you forgot you had. New stuff for today’s binder include Jale – So Wound, Radiohead – The Bends, and the Stand By Me Soundtrack. Also of course, some of the more familiar stuff, like Prodigy’s Jilted, some Naked mixes, and our pal DJ Shadow.

So, looking at my fall music schedule, and it looks like I’m planning on going to a lot of shows in the upcoming weeks. Hmm, maybe I should start eating out less…

• Sept 6, Freedom to Dance @ Westwood Federal Building – not really a “show” per se, but gotta show some linky love^*
• Sept 6, Techno Tribe @ USC (free!) – ditto
• Sept 9, Gus Gus, Balligomingo @ the El Rey
• Sept 14/15, Dealership @ Fray Day
• Sept 18, Sleater Kinney @ the El Rey
• Sept 19, Interpol @ the Troubadour^*
• Sept 20, Jazz a Nova, Kiip, Jason Bentley @ the El Rey
• Oct 6, “Keeping Time” Concert feat: Cut Chemist, Nu-Mark, J-Rocc, Shortkut, Madlib + special guests @ the El Rey^*
• Oct 8, Doves @ the Mayan^*
• Oct 10, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, The Bruces @ the El Rey
• Oct 21, Underworld @ the Wiltern^*
• Oct 23, Spoon @ the Troubadour^*
• Oct 24, Ani DiFranco @ the Wiltern^*
• Nov 2, Dismemberment Plan @ the Troubadour^*

^* Still sorta up in the air.

Most of the in the airs have to do with whether I really want to shell out for tickets (or if the tickets are available yet). The RAVE Act protest depends on my schedule / car availability tomorrow (it’s in the shop getting the hydraulic clutch cylinders replaced). Whether I go to Fray Day SF depends on if I really want to drive up to SF on my birthday weekend.

Hey, I have work early tomorrow morning. What am I doing still up? I don’t know. I have more stuff I want to post up, but that Mozilla post really grew out of hand… which is about par for my Mozilla posts. (yeah, I should work on the search bit sometime. Honestly, just about anything would be better)

Hey, Chris brought Justin into the fold. Welcome, brother Hall. 🙂

Oh, some (old and new) links for fellow Mozillian converts:

• Links Panel – all hail Dr. Brain.
• MozBlog – All Hail Mike Lee.
• spellchecker – coming soon to a build near you
• jesser’s bookmarklets – lots of good stuff; also, Jesse made one just for my site.
• Mozilla Evangelism Sidebars – most sidebars sorta suck, but the Mozilla Source Generator sidebar rocks the house.
• QLookup – Adds Google Search, Wayback, and Dictionary lookup to the context menu
• Multizilla – what Mozilla’s tabbed browsing was inspired by and may one day be. Warning: They have a pic of it working, but when I installed Multizilla on a 1.1a+ build on OSX, it really gave it a royal drubbing (totally hosed the chrome). Really, the only toolbar addon you need though (w/ the option GoogleBox). See blog
• diggler – comes in handy more than you might think
• leech – pretty useful right now, with lots of potential
• Googlebar – honestly, I don’t use this anymore, no good reason, I guess. Same w/ EasySearch. Nothing against them, but my custom keywords handle just about everything I need
• Banner Blind – when the default image blocking isn’t enough and you’re too lazy of a bum to run a real proxy. 🙂
• Optimoz – OK, some people like gestures. I don’t because I like dragging my mouse around and highlighting stuff randomly. That wasn’t a good thing to do in earlier milestone builds with the random lockups and the hey hey. Some people like gestures though.
• Preferences Toolbar – personally, I don’t like it and have grand plans to make something that is functionally similar and combines it w/ uabar functionality and some other neat stuff, but um… I’ve been busy.
• Phoenix nightlies (mozbrowser) – d/l’d it today. It rocks the casbah.
• January Mozilla addon ramble – has some links I’m too lazy to reproduce

Hmm, another list just because it popped into my head: my current Mozilla “annoyances that happen all the time that I can think of off hand”

• Window shortcuts (close tab, switching tabs, etc.) don’t work depending on location focus / whether tabs are empty or not
• “FileBookmarks” / “Bookmark Groups of Tabs” dialog boxes don’t remember the size
• History Window remembers that I want to view by Last Visited date in descending order, but doesn’t actually order it. It takes 3 clicks to make it actually do it (1st click makes it into unordered mode, which is what it starts as (but doesn’t think it’s in), second click gets it into ascending order, and the third takes it back into descending order with it actually sorted in that order)
• Email notification goes off even when filter sends is set to delete the incoming message
• No “run rule on current folder(s)” option available when I make a new rule (which I might add, I should be able to make from the context menu but have to go in the Message menu instead)
• Oh, and I can’t easily switch between SMTP servers (important when using a laptop from different locations/ISPs)

Justin’s mindex is cool. I should update mine. I’ve been using the same one, pretty much unchanged, since 1998. A large chunk of those sites on my list don’t even exist anymore.

BTW, for Dictionary lookups, these are the keywords I use:

mw

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=%s

mwt

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus?va=%s

dict

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s

thes

http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=%s