November 2005
17 posts
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No Work and No Play →
James Surowiecki on the difference between the American work week and the European, and how that affects life.
Nov 30th
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Religion of Comic Book Characters →
You never know what knowledge might save your life one day.
Nov 30th
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Firefox - Rediscover the web →
New version of Firefox out (1.5). A few new features and loads of bug fixes.
Nov 30th
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You can't apparate within the grounds of... →
Excellent editorial about the comics industry.
Nov 23rd
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Superman Returns →
Trailer for the new movie, due out in the summer.
Nov 18th
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Everybody Loves Power Girl! →
Long piece on Power Girl and her rack. Yup.
Nov 16th
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"Godzilla" Fossils Reveal Real-Life Sea Monster →
Strange giant crocadile-like bones found.
Nov 16th
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Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously →
Ooooh.
Nov 14th
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Slate Magazine →
Nov 10th
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Calvin and Hobbes - The last great newspaper comic... →
If The Complete Calvin and Hobbes hardcover set ended up under the Christmas tree for me…
Nov 8th
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Watched the super special no sharks involved live debate episode of The West Wing last night. Many people get one very big thing wrong about that show: it’s no more about politics than Star Trek is about science. Or, at least, it didn’t used to be. Last night clearly had a few “ripped from the headlines” lines in it, but the show, when it’s good, was never good...
Nov 8th
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CTRL-Tab
A-ha! I’ve been trying to figure out the keyboard command in Firefox to switch between tabs for ages now. The answer is CTRL-Tab. Of course, this means my poor brain will have to learn to switch between that and the Safari command of CMD-SHIFT-[ and -]. Imported comments: FYI: in case you find yourself stuck on a Windows machine, Ctrl-Tab will switch between subwindows/panes within most...
Nov 7th
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Google on Tabbed Browsing →
Usability study on tabs. A close box on every tab is better.
Nov 7th
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Online Scheduling - Yahoo! TV →
Yahoo! adds buttons to its TV listings that let you set your TiVo.
Nov 7th
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Flight Patterns →
Very neat illustrations and movies of flight paths over the US.
Nov 3rd
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Star Wars: Episodes I-VI - The greatest postmodern... →
Neat Slate article on the series as a whole.
Nov 1st
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TiVo: Overlap Protection →
TiVo finally adds some logic into their recording to account for overlapping shows.
Nov 1st