Mozilla Firefox is an awesome web browser. I love it! Some people are very attached to the way Internet Explorer works. Here is a brief guide to getting Firefox to look and operate like Internet Explorer, but still retaining the speed and security of Firefox. (Link from Weblog Tools Collection.)
Just a link I want to keep track of. Sitepoint has a good set of Web Design Effects Tutorials available.
From Yahoo News comes a story that sounds too strange to believe. Thieves in southern Bosnia stole an entire 13-meter bridge!
I was reading through a comment on Slashdot yesterday when I found a link to an essay Neal Stephenson had written about Operating Systems. I remember seeing this before but never got around to reading it. I have just started but so far it’s a pretty good read!
Engadget has short review of a new device from CatEye. It’s a device that lets you hook your own bike up to your playstation. Cool idea.
Joel on Software has a good writeup on Asperger’s Syndrome. The well-regognized symptoms include an inability to interpret peoples’ emotions from their facial expressions, incredibly logical thought processes that make math easy but human relations darn near impossible, and fear of physical contact with other people.
Anyway, he has a writeup about a very interesting sounding book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
A bunch of miscellaneous, completely unrelated links I want to keep track of:
Davezilla’s post of the day is great fun today! Go check it out. I’m putting my money on the bird too!
Slashdot has a link to an excellent research project about the possibility of “smart projectors” that will let you project a video image on any surface and have the projector compensate for the shape, texture and color variations of the surface. The video at the end of the article does a great job demonstrating the technology in action!
I have made the switch to WordPress. I decided it was time to switch to an entirely PHP system as that’s what I like programming in anyway. All the old links and file names should still work. If not, let me know. I also did away with the strawberries and cornflakes for a bit. I wanted a simpler design for the time being and the old one was pretty graphics intensive.
Dan Brown of Boxes and Arrows has a great essay up regarding the Information Architecture of Email. He gives a good overview of what google did differently, and how it changes the way you work with email.
Gmail revealed to me my email behavior - something I hadn’t previously given much thought. By making certain things easier (and others more difficult), Gmail showed me how “typical” email applications weren’t necessarily designed according to how I used them.
I just wish a desktop email client (Like ximian Evolution) would incorporate some of the features google did.
Remember that great Christmas Song from The Chipmunks? Well, someone took the time to slow it down so you can hear Alvin, Simon and Theodore at their true speed..and boy is it scary! (Here’s a link directly to the mp3.)
Yes, hear Simon, Theodore and Alvin at their true speed, sounding respectively like an accountant, a hot-dog vendor, and a lunatic.
(Link from Boing Boing)
Gizmodo has a link to John Dvorak’s Bottom Ten List: Worst of the Laptops.
I’m particularly partial to this one (a 20 pound laptop):
8. Macintosh Portable (1989). This machine was perhaps the world’s biggest laptop ever. If you think of it as a desktop replacement, it probably should not be on this list. In fact, it was stylish for its day. It was heavy and large, weighing in at around 20 pounds and using lead-acid batteries. (Another forgettable machine that had lead-acid batteries came out some years later. It was called the Dynabook (one of many computers using that name) and never really shipped.)