You know these people. Sure you do. Oh, you’ve tried to forget, but the knowledge is there. In your mind. Festering.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Today’s Jaw-Droppingly Gorgeous Time Sink
Plasma Pong. Further proof that sufficiently advanced GPU technology is indistinguishable from Very Hard Drugs.
Outlet 360
Leaving aside for a moment the fact that “360” is clearly the new “XP”, I need one of these. Actually, probably need half a dozen of them, but let’s start small and ramp up.
Webcomic of the week: Wondermark
While clip-art webcomics are not exactly new, Wondermark adds a dash of spice to an established form by giving a 19th-century look and feel to decidedly 21st-century humor and technology.
No. 74, In Which Thanks are Made For Nothing, crosses the line from mere cleverness into genius. I’ve ordered a print. (Hey, I had to.)
The Antidote to my Pain
Certain of my Mac-using friends — who know who they are — insist upon composing their messages with that platform’s Mail.app, which likes to honor a tradition established by its apparent idol, Microsoft Outlook, and indiscriminately break any line longer than 80 columns. Should such a line happen to consist of a URL, well, too bad.
After reassembling broken links by hand for the umpteenth time, I finally got sick of it and decided to find a Firefox extension that would solve the problem for me. Cue URL Link, which lets you highlight any chunk of text in Firefox and treat is as a URL, opening it in either the current window or a new tab. It reassembles broken links en passant, but its usefulness extends to any situation — as frequently arises on, for instance, message boards — where someone supplied a URL but for whatever reason didn’t, or couldn’t, turn it into an actual hyperlink.
Joe Bob says check it out.