Blogger snuck a Hindi transliteration feature into the post composer. Why? I don’t know. Does it work? Beats me. What does it say above? Does it make any sense?
April 6, 2007
February 13, 2007
Panser Anti-Bjørne
This documentary is now at the top of my Netflix queue. I suspect—just this once—H won’t mind.
The quick summary: man is attacked by bear, man spends years building anti-bear armor, man seeks out Grizzly for a re-match, and then… ? I’ll just have to wait and find out!
(Via Dave-of-the-Long-Box)
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A Series of… Pipes?
Yahoo Pipes is pretty cool, though not, I suspect, as easy-to-use as advertised. The idea is that you can take RSS feeds and other “Web 2.0” content, process them in non-trivial ways, and end up with your own filtered, re-mixed, or mashed-up data stream. Things like: personalized Ebay price watches or Flickr photos inspired by New York Times headlines.
I’ve concocted my own, decidedly less ambitious Pipes: Overheard in New York w/o the Wednesday One-Liners (there’s too many!) and Tapped blog posts by Mark Schmitt or Ezra Klein (all those other earnest liberals get boring). Here’s another one, just for kicks: Grace’s posts on design*sponge and BizBox in one feed.
If anybody can figure out how to make a Pipe that attaches headlines to headline-less RSS feeds, that would be sweet.
P.S.: I should probably give a “via” credit to TWiT—as if they need it—since I was inspired by their idle yapping to check this out.
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February 7, 2007
Pop-ups, a Third Way
If you set Firefox to block pop-ups, you get this message when a page requests a pop-up:
This is accompanied by a Preferences button with the following options:
Why only “allow pop-ups for this site”? Why not “allow this one pop-up that I’m pretty sure I want to see, but protect me from future nefarious pop-ups”?
This properly belongs in Bugzilla, but I’m sure the developers would tell me I’m stupid and ignore me. See, e.g., this bug that I voted for, like, two years ago.
UPDATE: As I suspected, Bugzilla has entries for why this isn’t really a bug and why you don’t want what you think you want.
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February 4, 2007
January 11, 2007
George Michael Bluth on Success
Happy Times.
Via Unfogged.
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Procrastiblog 